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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Car Seat Safety for Premature Infants | Car seat safety is extra important for premature infants, who can be so small that they barely fit in a car seat. They can also have respiratory problems that make it hard for them to breathe well while sitting in a car seat.1 You can help keep your preemie safe in the car by choosing the right car seat and positioning your baby in it correctly. | Website |
| Car Seat Safety for Premature Infants | "Choosing the right car seat is one of the most important steps in ensuring car seat safety for your premature baby. Many preemies will go home below the lower weight limit for many car seats. Therefore, you will need to choose a seat that will properly fit a small baby." Learn more from this article from VeryWell Family. | Website |
| CARA'S Kit: Creating Adaptations for Routines and Activities | This kit contains information on how to make adaptations for individuals or groups of children who are experiencing challenged during everyday routines and activities. | Website |
| Características del Juego (Characteristics of Play) | Si bien hay muchas definiciones para la palabra "jugar," el juego quizás se defina mejor al observar algunas características específicas del juego. Esta hoja de consejos explora las cinco características más acordadas del juego. While there are many definitions for the word "play," it is perhaps best defined by looking at some specific play features. This tip sheet explores the five most common characteristics of play. | Tipsheet |
| Care for Yourself, So You Can Care for Others | From the office of Head Start, December can be a particularly hard time to take care of yourself. You may be busy, over-scheduled, stressed about finances, or worried about family. This month, the Safe Foundations, Healthy Futures Campaign will be offering tips to help you care for yourself. Take time each day to try out a few easy ideas. Caring for yourself can improve your health, reduce stress, and ultimately help you bring your best self to caring for the children you serve. When you feel mentally and physically healthy, you can make positive choices about how to effectively respond to children's behavior and needs. | |
| Care Plan for Children with Special Health Care Needs | These plans can be used to create an accommodation plan for children with special medical needs. | Document |
| Caregiver Handouts: Games and Activities that Build Brains and Executive Function Skills | "Here you’ll find handouts with suggestions for games and activities to do with children of different ages. They can be shared at well child visits or when caregivers are looking for support with behavior. These activities can promote child-caregiver bonding, executive function skills, and build children’s brains through play." These handouts are from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. These resources are available in English and Spanish! | Document |
| Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign | The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign website consists of information from a four-year national public education campaign by the Center for Mental Health Services, a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase awareness about the emotional problems of America's children and adolescents and gain support for needed services. The website contains links for children and adolescents, tips for parents ranging from improving your child's mental health to issues that families may face regarding mental health. There are resources available for purchase or to download. The information is also available in spanish at www.mentalhealth.org/espanol/ | Website |
| Caring for Multi Aged Groups in a Family Child Care Setting | Kim Woehl, one of our CICC Coaches and a former licensed family child care provider, joins this episode. Kim has many useful insights as to how to meet the needs of many different children at various ages and stages in the family child care setting. She shares strategies related to building a flexible yet consistent routine, and tip and tricks that calm chaos and meet varied needs. | Podcast |
| Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety | This manual contains guidelines on the development and evaluation of the health and safety of children in all types of early care and education setting centers and family child care homes. | Website |
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