As part of Head Start’s comprehensive services, every 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.
Find out how to develop a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) registry. Learn about the registry’s purpose and components. Explore ways states can add a registry to an existing professional development system.
Dr. James Perrin, former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, discusses Head Start and the medical home. Learn why it is crucial to link families to a medical home that best serves their needs by providing continuous, accessible medical care.
Explore this tip sheet to learn about how homelessness impacts health and wellness. Learn how to identify and assess the needs of families experiencing homelessness and connect them to medical and dental homes.
These interactive learning activities will help child care health consultants learn to effectively share their expertise with programs. Explore six realistic scenarios to build and enhance consultation skills.
This activity shows how child care health consultants can provide meaningful discussions around health and safety, and strengthen partnerships.
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.
The Health and Mental Health Services Advisory Committee (HMHSAC) help programs make decisions about health services. Use this kit to help plan, recruit, engage, and evaluate the work of the HMHSAC.