As summer ends...

...and a new school year begins for many childcare programs, now is the perfect time to take a look at your checklists. In this issue of Healthy Childcare®, our Safety First article by Cynthia Sprouse can you help you to determine what health and safety checklists may be helpful as well as how to develop and update the lists for your program.

Marna Holland has been busy as she has three articles in this issue of Healthy Childcare®! In the Sickness and Health section, you will find Marna’s article on Tetanus which explains this bacterial disease.

Marna’s article in the Medicine Chest outlines three types of intervention therapies that might be provided to children in your care: physical, occupational, and speech-language. In the Health & You article this month, Marna helps you to plan a safe and healthy vacation.

The Nutrition Action article in this issue by Madeleine Sigman-Grant provides information on protein and how to include protein in meal planning in your childcare setting.

For those of you who are in early care and education settings where staff training is a part of your program, Healthy Childcare’s Health & Safety Resource Guide is just for you. This two-page reproducible supplement (mailed with your Healthy Childcare® subscription) includes a complete training outline on a health and safety topic that you can use in your program setting. Additionally, you will dozens and dozens of low-or-no cost health and safety resources that may be added to your resource library for use now or later.

While we find that most of you hold onto your issues of Healthy Childcare® for later use, if you are missing an issue, please use the Library section of our website. All of the articles from Healthy Childcare® are on our website, www.healthychild.net. Click on the Library icon where you can scroll down the page to find all of the articles listed or you can type in a topic in the search window.


Kathryn Breighner
Publisher