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Tips for Using
Healthy Kids, Healthy Care
Effectively
   

Parents
Print a checklist of Key Questions and take with you when visiting a new child care/early education program.
34 specific topics are covered not just the 6 main subject areas on the front page. Scroll over each subject area to find more details and then click -- Or Use the "Topics A-Z" in the upper right hand corner for a complete list.
After reading the key questions, - explore the wealth of information under the other "tabs" marked Want to Know More, How to Help your Caregiver and Additional Resources
Did you notice the "Printer Friendly Version" on the lower right hand side? Save time -- click that link and you will get the entire topic area in an easy to print format.
Jump start a discussion at the next parent education meeting by printing out a hot topic, asking your program director to consider for the agenda and distributing copies to the other parents attending.
Pick an activity in the "How to Help your Caregiver" section and do as a group project with other parents in the program - for example - participate in a playground "spruce up and repair day".
 


Directors and Caregivers of
Early Childhood Programs
Print a checklist of Key Questions and use as a quick assessment tool for the program.
Ask one staff member each week to find a resource on the site they think would be useful to other members of staff and discuss it at the next staff meeting.
Assign new employees to view a "topic a week".
Did you notice the "Printer Friendly Version" on the lower right hand side? Save time -- click that link and you will get the entire topic area in an easy to print format.
 


 

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