Healthy Childcare®--
A Perfect Fit for Childcare Programs

Each issue (six per year) provides approximately one hour of health and safety "training." Healthy Childcare® includes a balance of information on health, safety, nutrition, staff wellness, medicines, illnesses and more. A reproducible poster and newsletter called Hip On Health is included in each issue--these have been a huge hit!!

Healthy Childcare® is a bright, colorful 16-page (not too much, not too little) publication and is filled with information your classroom or center can use now. Why is it so colorful? Because sometimes health and safety is not perceived as attractive--but Healthy Childcare® is so attractive you'll want to pick it up and use it now and again and again. Most material in Healthy Childcare® is not "dated" meaning it's a great resource to use now and six months from now.

Here's what we've heard from Healthy Childcare® subscribers:

--A childcare referral agency in New York hosted a health and safety conference and built in the cost of a year of Healthy Childcare® to the registration fee so that participants could learn about health and safety at the conference as well as for the next year.

--A graduating class of family childcare providers received Healthy Childcare® as a graduation gift.

--Many Head Start programs are using Healthy Childcare® to help meet revised performance standards and are ordering subscriptions for each and every classroom and program. One Head Start director said, "I want every classroom to have Healthy Childcare® because they can't help but use it once they see how attractive it is."

--Childcare programs across the country are writing grants to local/regional/state foundations or community organizations to receive funds to provide Healthy Childcare® to all classrooms or programs they serve--and guess what the answer is--yes!

--One state's early childhood office is looking at finding ways to provide Healthy Childcare® to all family childcare homes as a way to increase their level of care and training.

--Several colleges and universities are including Healthy Childcare® as "text" for early childhood education majors taking health and safety classes.

--Many, many readers have called to obtain copies of Healthy Childcare® to hand out at state or local conferences. Participants at a statewide conference in Louisiana--all 900 of them--received Healthy Childcare brochures in their registration packets.

Did we mention that we're working hard to bring you Healthy Childcare® and that we need your support? Shouldn't you have Healthy Childcare® in your childcare program, too? Please order Healthy Childcare® for your program and spread the word....Healthy Childcare® is a great addition to any childcare setting!