Model Child Care Health Policies

Author: Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics

Brand: American Academy of Pediatrics

Edition: Fifth

Number Of Pages: 250

Details: Product Description

Significantly revised and updated, the new Model Child Care Health Policies, 5th Edition is a must-have tool to foster adoption and implemenation of best practices for health and safety in group care settings for young children. These settings include early care and education as well as before and after school child care programs. These model policies are intended to ease the burden of writing site-specific health and safety policies from scratch.

They cover a wide range of aspects of operation of early education and child care programs.

Contents include:

– Admission/Enrollment/Attendance
– Supervision and Provision of Social-Emotional Care
– Planned Program, Teaching, and Guidance
– Nutrition, Food Handling, and Feeding
– Physical Activity and Screen Time
– Daytime Sleeping, Evening, Nighttime, and Drop-in Care
– Sanitation and Hygiene
– Environmental Health
– Transportation (Motor Vehicle, Bicycle/Tricycle, or Other Wheeled Toys), Pedestrian Safety, and Field Trips
– Health Plan
– Care of Children and Staff Members Who Are Acutely Ill or Injured
– Security
– Emergencies and Disasters
– Child Abuse and Neglect
– Smoking, Prohibited Substances, and Weapons
– Human Resources/Personnel Policies
– Medication policies
– Numerous sample forms

About the Author

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 66,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP is the largest pediatric publisher in the world, with a diverse list of resources that includes essential clinical and practice management titles and award-winning books for parents.

Susan S. Aronson, MD, FAAP, (Dr. Sue) is a pediatric advisor for the Early Childhood Education Linkage System–Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania (ECELS) at the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PA AAP). ECELS is a statewide quality improvement program that Dr. Sue founded in 1989. She is the author of Model Child Care Health Policies, the PA AAP publication distributed by the AAP and available for free download on the ECELS website along with online curricula and resource materials for early educators about health and safety issues. She is a contributor to the widely-used Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs. Dr. Sue is the author and guest faculty for an online, 3-college-credit Child Care Health Advocate course for early educators. Since 2007, the course has been offered fall and spring terms at Northampton Community College under a renewable agreement of the college with the PA AAP. Dr. Sue is the author/editor of Healthy Young Children, 5th Edition (2012), published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Her column “Ask Dr. Sue” was published in Exchange magazine for many years. She is a retired clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Release Date: 25-10-2013

Package Dimensions: 32x308x735