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Healthy Child Care Programs, Healthy Kids!

Keeping children healthy and safe is an important piece of providing quality care. It also impacts the caregivers and families of the children in care. We are pleased to offer the following resources to help you in providing quality healthy and safe care.

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For Child Care Providers

Whether you are providing care as a family member, friend or neighbor; a licensed or unlicensed provider; through Head Start, a pre-school program or an after-school program, implementing quality health and safety standards will minimize illness and injuries.

Necessary components to quality care.

Resources for Providers

Health Link Online newsletter from Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania

For Consultants

Minnesota Statutes for licensed child care centers, Under Rule 3 (Minnesota Rules, parts 9503.0005 to 9503.0170), has required licensed centers to have a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) review all health and safety policies and practices since 1980.

Minnesota’s local county public health agencies originally were the source for CCHCs services.  However, over the years local county agencies have been phasing out this service. As a result, there has been an increase in private fee for service CCHCs providing health consultation services to licensed centers.

This password-accessable site provides a variety of tools and resources for the child care health consultant (CCHC). These reflect the current, research-based standards of support care for quality health and safety practices within child care.

General Resources

American Academy of Pediatrics; Healthy Child Care America Resource Library is a database with a wealth of resources related to early education and child care. Users are able to search by topic, type of resource, AAP materials, and/or materials for families.

Healthy Childcare Consultants, Inc. is a resource for child care health consultants; early care and education (ECE) providers and trainers; members of professional organizations, educational and medical facilities; and parents whose goal is to provide accurate information and effective resource materials to promote the health and safety of young children, birth through age 8. 

HealthyChildren.org is the only parenting Web site backed by 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The site includes information regarding the American Academy of Pediatrics many programs and activities, their policies and guidelines, their publications and other child health resources,

Minnesota’s Bookstore operates as a centralized publishing house for state agency products sold to the public, including Child Care Center Laws & Rules

U.S. Department of Human Services Early Child Care and Knowledge Center is a general children's health resource site, including sections about children aged 0 to 5 on nutrition, health and wellness, oral health, environmental health and safety and health care and social service professionals.