Health and Safety Basics
This webinar highlights strategies for providing safe and healthy places for children to grow and learn.
Embracing Health and Wellness Series
In the Embracing Health and Wellness series, learn about current research topics. Explore best practices and safety tips for Head Start and child care programs.
Caring for the Health and Wellness of Children Experiencing Homelessness
Explore this tip sheet to learn about how homelessness impacts health and wellness. Learn how to identify and assess the needs of families experiencing homelessness and connect them to medical and dental homes.
Child Care Health Consultation: Skill-Building Modules
These interactive learning activities will help child care health consultants learn to effectively share their expertise with programs. Explore six realistic scenarios to build and enhance consultation skills.
Promoting Oral Health in Early Care and Education Programs
Child care health consultants can help early care and education programs find ways to address dental care in young children. Learn how to apply strategies and use resources to promote children’s oral health.
Building Trust with Your Programs
This activity shows how child care health consultants can provide meaningful discussions around health and safety, and strengthen partnerships.
Improving Communication Skills
Explore best practices for how child care health consultants can maintain collaborative partnerships with early care and education programs.
Identifying and Resolving Concerns
This activity outlines a five-step process child care health consultants can use to resolve a health or safety concern in a program setting.
Creating Collaborative Relationships with Programs
Learn how to build a collaborative relationship between a child care health consultant and an early care and education provider with this activity.
Health Services Management
New and experienced staff will find professional development tools to help keep children safe, healthy, and ready to learn.