Minimum Standards for Tribal Child Care: A Health and Safety Guide
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Resource List
Numerous publications and organizations exist to provide information and guidance on health and safety in child care programs. A sampling of key resources is provided below.
Publications and Online Resources
Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care, Second Edition (2002). Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care. Available in full-text online at http://nrc.uchsc.edu/.
Caring for Our Children is a comprehensive set of more than 600 health and safety standards for child care programs serving children from birth to age 12. The standards in this Guide are designed to be consistent with those in Caring for Our Children.
Stepping Stones to Using Caring For Our Children, 2nd Edition (2003). Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care. Available in full-text online at http://nrc.uchsc.edu/.
Stepping Stones contains a subset of the standards in Caring for Our Children that are believed to have the greatest impact on preventing disease, disability, and death in child care programs. Stepping Stones was designed to augment Caring for Our Children, providing policymakers and program managers with an abridged tool to assist with the development of effective child care policies and regulations.
Head Start National Training Guides. Published by the Head Start Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Available in full-text online from the Head Start Information and Publication Center (HSIPC) at http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/trainingguides.cfm.
Head Start’s series of National Training Guides includes a number of publications on health and safety topics, including Caring for Children with Chronic Conditions, Enhancing Health in the Head Start Workplace, Preventing and Managing Communicable Diseases, and Safety First: Preventing and Managing Childhood Injuries. The HSIPC also provides access to other publications and links on health, safety, child development, and other related topics through their Web site, http://www.headstartinfo.org.
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