Creating Trauma-Informed Child Care

This is an excellent, worth your time webinar on Creating Trauma-Informed Child Care.

This webinar will focus on classroom supports for very young children who have experienced trauma.  You will learn how to identify high quality early child care and education settings that are appropriate for young children and strategies that child care professionals can use to support children in the classroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFoZO6GkbCQ

Enjoy!
Stacy and Sherrie
Platte County Child Care Consultants

PLEASE READ to help us continie to support your childcare center/in-home

Dear Platte County friends,

We would like to ask a favor from all of you. The CCHC (Child Care Health Consultant) grant is asking for our help. This is the grant that lets us come visit you to assist with trainings hours, policy development, technical assistance, and our health promotion classes for your little ones.

 Can you please take a moment to share with the State your personal stories of how Sherrie and I help your center or family home? They would like to hear about our family partnerships and the personal stories of how our services are impacting children and your families.

 These few moments of your time will help at the Federal level for us to continue to help and partner with you!!

 Thanks for your time! Have a great weekend!

 Survey link: http://freesuggestionbox.com/pub/mmwacut

 Your Child Care Consultants,

Stacy and Sherrie

Who doesnt like FREE money?

FREE money opportunity if interested from . https://voicesforhealthykids.org/grant-opportunities/

 The American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are working to create a culture of health through Voices for Healthy Kids. Through this collaboration, and in working with a team of experts across the healthy eating and active living movement, the initiative aims to engage, organize, and mobilize people to help all children grow up at a healthy weight.

 

Daycares Must support: (You are doing this already if you are a MOVE Smart and/or Eat Smart Center) GO FOR IT!!

Early care & education—Establish statewide nutrition, physical activity, and screen time standards for early childcare providers. Create recognition or designation program. Secure public funding for technical assistance. Eliminate marketing in child care settings.

Note: The deadline is February 9, 2018 - 5 PM PST .

Who likes FREE things?!!

Hi Childcare Providers!

Below are some FREE posters that came across my email today. Great to hang up in your centers/home to promote physical activity. Keep in mind these would also go along with the MOve Smart guidelines as well!

Subject: Free health message art for your classroom - The Walking Classroom

http://www.thewalkingclassroom.org/free-health-message-art-for-your-classroom/

 

Happy Shopping!

 

Stacy

 

Platte County Child Care Consultant

Flu in Platte County

Good afternoon,

 Platte County Health Department (PCHD) recently received over 80 reports of influenza diagnosed in Platte County residents last week, over a third of which were among school-aged children. Due to high rates of influenza currently being reported throughout Platte County and the Kansas City region, we wanted to send out a friendly reminder to our daycares to make an extra effort to practice good hygiene measures throughout flu season: 

·         Promote regular handwashing among your staff and students, particularly after handling used tissues or using the restroom and before eating or preparing food.  Handwashing is the best way to prevent the spread of communicable disease!

·         Ask parents to keep their students home from school if they have a fever, diarrhea, or vomiting, until at least 24 hours after symptoms end.

·         Perform routine cleaning and disinfection of frequently touched environmental surfaces and equipment as well as high-traffic areas:

o   Frequently touched surfaces include, but are not limited to, commodes, toilets, faucets, hand railing, telephones, door handles, computer equipment, and kitchen preparation surfaces.

o   Increase the frequency of cleaning and disinfection frequently touched surfaces when there are many sick children (e.g., increase cleaning to twice daily to maintain cleanliness, with frequently touched surfaces cleaned and disinfected three times daily).

o   Clean and disinfect surfaces starting from the areas with a lower likelihood of contamination (e.g., tray tables, counter tops) to areas with highly contaminated surfaces (e.g., toilets, bathroom fixtures).

o   Change mop heads when a new bucket of cleaning solution is prepared, or after cleaning large spills of vomit or fecal material.

o   Consider avoiding the use of upholstered furniture and rugs or carpets, as these objects are difficult to clean and disinfect completely. If this option is not possible, immediately clean soilage, such as vomit or fecal material, from upholstery, using a manufacturer-approved cleaning agent or detergent.  Consider discarding items that cannot be appropriately cleaned/disinfected.

·         After throwing up or having diarrhea, immediately clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces.

o   Use a chlorine bleach solution (see attached, or page 40 of the Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease Manual) or other disinfectant registered as effective against norovirus by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

o   PCHD and the Missouri Department of Health do not recommend using Clorox wipes or other disinfectant wipes(scented or unscented), as they can increase incidence of asthma in students and cause other allergic reactions.

 Another good resource for school cleaning and exclusion guidelines as well as information on diseases like influenza and norovirus is the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Prevention and Control of Communicable Disease Manual, available at http://health.mo.gov/living/families/schoolhealth/pdf/Communicable_Disease.pdf.

 

Please let us know if you if there is anything else we can do to assist you in keeping your schools healthy. 

 

Thank you!