Health 

August 2002

Asthma Child Care Resources

We are pleased to share the following resources from our partners with you and hope you can use them within your organization.

Caring for Children with Chronic Conditions

One of a series of Head Start National Training Guides, this guide is intended to build staff capacity to make Head Start a safe and welcoming place to learn and play for children with chronic conditions. It outlines best practices for children with special health needs and specific Head Start implications, with a particular focus on allergies and asthma. It builds on the key concepts that Head Start staff must work with the family and health care providers to ensure that the care of the child with asthma is family-centered, individualized, safe, and legal. Activity sheets, sample forms, and case scenarios provide clear and practical tools to adapt this training to other child care sites.

You can view the training guide online at: http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/children_cc/ccccont.htm.

Scroll down to Module 3--Putting It All Together: Caring For Children With Asthma.

Secondhand Smoke Training Module for Child Care Providers

"The ABCs of Secondhand Smoke" is a training module that provides caregivers with information that can be used to inform parents about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke to help reduce children's exposure in the home. It includes sections for child care providers, parents, and children. The section for child care providers includes a model day care policy, resource list, and self-test and evaluation reporting form. The module was developed by the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and the National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center.

It is available on the EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/iaq/ets/index.html.

Click on Resources in the left textbox and then scroll down to "Training Module for Child Care Providers"

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