Preparing for Landslides or Mudslides
Use this tip sheet on mudslides and landslides to find out how to gauge risk, know what to do, and practice plans.
Summer Safety Tips for Early Care and Education Programs
Use this resource for tips and resources on learning weather limits. Learn about applying sunscreen and insect repellent, staying hydrated, and playground and water safety.
Preparing for Tornado Season
Tornadoes can happen anytime. Use this tip sheet to review tornado warning signs and learn what's required of and useful for practicing your disaster plan.
Guiding Questions for Active Supervision and Safety
Review this series of questions to assess how well your management systems ensure active supervision and child safety.
Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
Infant caregivers can experience high levels of stress in their work. Persistent infant crying, for example, may lead caregivers to shake young infants. This can result in head trauma that can damage a baby's brain. Learn ways to help infant caregivers and families recognize the signs and symptoms of head trauma, manage stress, and prevent abuse.
Health Tips for Families: Safety and Injury Prevention
This fact sheet provides easy tips families can use to ensure their children's health and safety at home, outside, in the water, and in a car or truck.
Cold Weather Safety
Children are more vulnerable than adults to the effects of cold weather. These tips will help Head Start parents and staff keep children safe, healthy, and warm in the winter.
Create a Culture of Safety
In programs, all managers, staff, and families embrace the belief that children have the right to be safe by creating a culture of safety. They provide "an environment that encourages people to speak up about safety concerns, makes it safe to talk about mistakes and errors, and encourages learning from these events." Children are safer when managers, staff, and families work together to improve the strategies they use in homes, centers, and the community so children don't get hurt. Explore the resources below to learn more about creating a culture of safety.
Keep Children Safe Using Active Supervision
Children learn best when they are in safe, well-supervised environments. Head Start staff can reduce the possibility of a child getting hurt when they closely observe children and respond when needed. When programs think systematically about child supervision they create safe, positive learning environments for all children.
Active Supervision
All Head Start educators are responsible for making sure that no child is left unsupervised. Active supervision is a strategy that works. It can be used in classrooms, family child care, playgrounds, and buses. It can also be shared with families as a tool to use at home. This fact sheet explains what active supervision is and how to use it in your program.