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Health and Safety for Younger Children

Keeping Healthy During Flu Season
Seasonal Flu Information for Schools and Child Care Providers from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
What is the H1NI (Swine) Flu?

Keep All Children Safe and Healthy
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education - Learn all about the National Standards for keeping children safe and healthy in your program.

Recalled Products
Did you know that the Consumer Product Safety Commission issues recall for many of the products you may have in your home or child care building?
For recent recall information go to www.cpsc.gov
Another resource for recalls http://www.recalls.gov

Keep All Children Safe - Safety Guidelines for Young Children from Safe Kids
Raising Safe Kids Babies (0 to 12 months)
Raising Safe Kids Little Kids (1 to 4)
Raising Safe Kids Big Kids (5 to 9)
Raising Safe Kids Pre-Teens (10 to 14)

Indiana Nurse/Health Consultants - FSSA
Did you know the State of Indiana has a free child care health consultation program for child care providers?
Serving the Northern Counties in Indiana:

Anita Doctor
260-456-1269
anita.doctor@fssa.in.gov

Helping Children Cope with Trauma
NACCRRA, the Partnership for Disaster Preparedness, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Save the Children that will help you and parents protect children before, during and after an emergency. Helping Children Cope with Traumatic Events

TRUCE Releases List of Toys to Get and Toys to Avoid
TRUCE (Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment), a national organization of educators concerned about the impact of media and commercial culture on children, provides a list of toys and trends to avoid as well as toys of value.
See the 9th Annual Toy Action Guide free online, available in both English and Spanish at www.truceteachers.org

TRUCE's Goals:

  • To raise public awareness about the negative effects of violent and stereotyped toys and media on children, families, schools and society.
  • To work to limit the harmful influence of unhealthy children's entertainment.
  • To provide children with toys and activities that promote healthy play and non-violent behavior at home and school.
  • To create a broad-based effort to eliminate marketing to children and to reduce the sale of toys of violence.
  • To support parents' and teachers' efforts to deal with the issues regarding media.

SafeKids Worldwide
Are you familiar with SafeKids? Safe Kids Worldwide is the first and only international nonprofit organization dedicated solely to preventing unintentional childhood injury. http://www.safekids.org/.

Natalie Massey, 4C's Mentor, is SafeKids trained. Call or email her with your questions, (574)289-7815 x.217 or natalie@4csindiana.org.

Disaster Preparedness
Emergencies can happen at anytime. Besides having CPR and First Aid Training, there is more that you can do in order to be prepared. Take some time and look at your emergency plans for your child care. Do you have supplies in place in case you have to stay at the child care for several days? Do you have an emergency back up location in case something happens to your building/home? Need more resources and ideas? Check out http://www.ready.gov/.

Keep Children Safe - Look-a-Likes Can Kill
Caution needs to be used with medicines and liquids that are stored in your home or child care. Children often think these look like candies and juice drinks. If you are a parent, supervisor or care provider, be sure to keep all medicines and liquids out of reach of children. If any are accidentally injested, be sure to call the Indiana Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222

Home Safety Council
Have you checked out the Home Safety Council's website to see if your home is as safe as it can be? Take some time to learn how to keep your home safe for children.