Sleep and Your Child: How You Can Build Healthy Sleep Routines
It's important for children to get enough sleep. Learn how sleep is key to how your child learns, grows, and even behaves.
Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety
How to Protect Your Children from Lead Poisoning
Parents and staff can use this brochure to learn about the effects of unsafe levels of lead in blood and about how to avoid lead exposure.
Vision Screening Tools for Very Young Children
Learn about the importance of vision screening and its impact on vision development.
Protect Your Child with Vaccines
Learn how vaccines can protect young children from 14 dangerous diseases. Get tips on talking with parents about infant vaccines.
Bed Bugs: Managing the Itch Factor
Questions about bed bugs in early childhood settings are common, and understanding the bugs can inform program policies, procedures, and educational efforts. Explore information on identifying and managing bed bugs.
Healthy Home Visiting: Tummy Time Podcast
Listen to this podcast for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
Active Play: Health Tips for Families
This fact sheet includes tips families can use to help young children develop positive active play behaviors.
Tummy Time and Free Play for Infants
Tummy Time is a simple position with enormous benefits! Home visitors have a unique opportunity to partner with families and help them understand the importance of tummy time and how to add it to their routine.
Shigella
Learn the facts about shigella, how to prevent it, and what to do if someone in your program has it.
Ebola
Learn more about this serious transmissible disease that can be fatal. It is caused by an Ebola virus found in several African countries. Outbreaks have been sporadic.