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Starting a Healthy and Safe School Year
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Category: National Training or Event

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The start of the school year in an early childhood program brings a lot of excitement and opportunity. Child care health consultants (CCHCs) can engage program leadership to collaborate and plan strategies to support health and safety for children, staff, and families. Whether reviewing handbooks, refining common policies and procedures, or identifying training needs of the staff, CCHCs can support a successful launch to the school year! Join this webinar to learn more about how CCHCs can help programs get off to a healthy and safe start! This webinar is 60 minutes long.

Key Topics
In this webinar, we will be discussing:

  • Collaboration efforts with program leadership to develop a plan to address the health and safety needs of children, families, and staff members
  • Common health and safety topics for the start of the year
  • Resources to support CCHCs.


Target Audience
This webinar will benefit:

  • CCHCs
  • Head Start and Early Head Start health services staff members and other service area managers
  • Child care directors
  • School nurses working with prekindergarten programs
  • Child care resource and referral agency personnel

Related Resources
Explore related resources on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) website to learn more.

All ECLKC pages are translated into Spanish. Select the Español button on the top right corner to see the Spanish translation.


Contact: The Office of Head Start National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety