Every state has a dental hygienist liaison (DHL) to promote good oral health among Head Start participants. Learn about the role of DHLs and how they can help staff promote oral health and prevent oral disease.

Learn how programs can find and connect with child care health consultants (CCHCs). Explore ways CCHCs can help improve program safety as well as provide professional development opportunities for staff.

Find out how to develop a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) registry. Learn about the registry’s purpose and components. Explore ways states can add a registry to an existing professional development system.

Review the skills and expertise of child care health consultants (CCHCs) who work with early care and education programs across settings to serve children ages birth to 5 and their families.

These interactive learning activities will help child care health consultants learn to effectively share their expertise with programs. Explore six realistic scenarios to build and enhance consultation skills.

This activity shows how child care health consultants can provide meaningful discussions around health and safety, and strengthen partnerships.

Explore best practices for how child care health consultants can maintain collaborative partnerships with early care and education programs.

This activity outlines a five-step process child care health consultants can use to resolve a health or safety concern in a program setting.

Child care health consultants can help families and staff understand the effects of oral health on children’s overall health and development. 

Learn how to build a collaborative relationship between a child care health consultant and an early care and education provider with this activity.