Healthy Kids, Healthy Care:

Parents as Partners in Promoting
Healthy and Safe Child Care

Healthy Kids, Healthy Care is
now available in Spanish:

Niños Sanos, Cuidado Sano

Welcome to Healthy Kids, Healthy Care, developed by the National Resource Center for Health and Child Care and Early Education. We know you are visiting this Website because you want your children to be nurtured and safe at all times!

You want your children to grow up healthy and secure. Both are critical to your children's growth and development and affect their ability to learn and have fun.

Good health and safety practices are important in all early care and educational settings. This includes family child care homes and center-based programs such as early child care, preschool, and before- and after-school programs. We are calling all of these types of programs "child care" on this Website--in order to be brief.

This website is for parents of children who attend child care programs. We hope this guide will meet your needs for current, expert information and lead you to other useful resources.

To find answers to your questions about health and safety issues for young children, select a topic from the categories on the right.

For technical help in using this Site and information on Parents' Rights and Responsibilities see the drop down menu below.



Special thanks to our Healthy Kids, Healthy Care Task Force and Technical and Parent Reviewers.

Disclaimer: Healthy Kids, Healthy Care is for reference purposes only and shall not be used as a substitute for medical consultation, nor be used to authorize actions beyond a person's licensing, training, or ability.

 
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Latest Update: October 2008
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