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Explore best practices for how child care health consultants can maintain collaborative partnerships with early care and education programs.
As part of Head Start’s comprehensive services, every Head Start and Early Head Start program provides services to promote health, behavioral health, and safety for children and families. New and experienced health services staff can use these resources to learn more about health services and the role of health services staff. This topic area also includes professional development resources for health services staff, child care health consultants, and others who support health services across all early care and education settings.
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.
Learn how to build a collaborative relationship between a child care health consultant and an early care and education provider with this activity.
Child care health consultants support the health, safety, and wellness of children, families, and staff in early care and education settings. These resources help CCHCs plan, implement, improve, and evaluate health and safety practices.
This standard outlines requirements for collaborating with parents as partners in the health, mental health, and well-being of their children.
Program must provide high-quality health, oral health, mental health, and nutrition services that are developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and support each child’s growth and school readiness.
This standard describes health requirements for Head Start volunteers.
This standard helps ensure a program-wide culture of wellness that empowers staff as professionals and supports their mental health, physical health, and health literacy.
This standard requires programs to ensure children have a source of health care, are up to date on their health status, and receive ongoing and extended follow-up care as needed.
In this health chat, hear from four Health Services Advisory Committee leaders about the successes in their work.