Young Children and Vaccines: Protect Your Child with Vaccines
Learn how vaccines can protect young children from 14 dangerous diseases. Use this tip sheet to talk with parents about the importance of infant vaccines.
Health Tips for Families Series: Collection
These fact sheets serve as tools to help Head Start health managers provide important information to families about Office of Head Start priorities. We hope that you find them useful as you work within your programs and communities to strengthen the health and wellness of all Head Start children.
Bed Bugs: Managing the Itch Factor
Bed bugs are small, reddish-brown insects about the size of an apple seed. Questions about them are common in early education settings. Learn how to identify bed bugs and what to do if you have them in your program.
Healthy Home Visiting: Tummy Time Podcast
Listen on the go to a podcast (audio-only version) of the five-minute video for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
Health Tips for Families: Healthy Breathing
In this fact sheet, find information for families about asthma. Also, learn more about ways families can eliminate tobacco exposure.
Health Tips for Families: Active Play
This fact sheet includes tips families can use to help young children develop positive active play behaviors.
Immunization Schedules
Find current immunization schedules (from the CDC) for children ages birth through 6 years old, catch-up schedules for children birth to 18 years old and the adult schedule by vaccine and age group.
Tummy Time
Tummy time is a simple position with enormous benefits! Home visitors have a unique opportunity to partner with families and help them understand the importance of tummy time and how to add it to their routine.
Infectious Diseases: Prevention and Management
Preventing and managing communicable disease in early childhood programs can reduce the rate of illnesses. Learn strategies for controlling the spread of germs and protecting children and adults from getting sick.
Tummy Time and Free Play for Infants
Tummy Time is a simple position with enormous benefits! Home visitors have a unique opportunity to partner with families and help them understand the importance of tummy time and how to add it to their routine.