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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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Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition | The nutrition guide emphasizes prevention and early recognition of nutrition concerns and provides developmentally appropriate nutrition supervision guidelines for infancy through adolescence. The guide contains strategies and tools to help professionals provide nutrition supervision (including screening, assessment, and counseling) and promote partnerships with families and communities. In addition, the guide presents the latest information on special nutrition issues and concerns such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, iron-deficiency anemia, eating disorders, obesity, sport nutrition, and vegetarian eating practices. Tools include indicators of nutrition risk, tips for fostering a positive body image, and federal food assistance and nutrition programs. | Website |
Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health | Designed to be a useful tool for a wide array of professionals including dentists, dental hygienists, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, dietitians, and others to address the oral health needs of infants, children, and adolescents. Promotes developing partnerships with families. | Website |
Bright Futures: Prevention and Health Promotion for Infants, Children, Adolescents, Families | The mission of Bright Futures is to promote and improve the health, education, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, families, and communities. Bright Futures uses a developmentally based approach to address children's health needs in the context of family and community. Bright Futures is a set of principles, strategies, and tools that are theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented that can be used to improve the health and well-being of all children. Bright Futures materials are used by health professionals who care for children, including pediatricians, nurse practitioners, school nurses, public health workers, family physicians, nurses, physician assistants, dentists, child care workers, and others. | Website |
Bring Out the Best in Your Children (Spanish) | Helping shape your children's behavior is a key part of being a parent. It can be difficult as well as rewarding. While at times it can be challenging, a few key principles can help. | Document |
Brush, Book, Bed: How to Structure Your Child’s Nighttime Routine | Brush, Book, Bed, a program of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has a simple and clear message for parents: Each night, help your children to brush their teeth. Read a favorite book (or two)! Get to bed at a regular time each night. | Website |
Building Social and Emotional Development Outdoors | From the Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC): Being outside fuels social and emotional development. Preschool children are often engaged in social activities when outdoors, and active bodies often lead to active emotions. These are the elements children need for constructive social and emotional learning. This Front Porch webinar begins a three-part series that explores learning outdoors during the preschool years. In this first episode, presenters discuss how outdoor environments create ideal conditions for children’s social and emotional development. They also explain how adults can use outdoor environments to help build social and emotional skills in children ages 3 to 5. | Website |
Bullies in the Block Area: The Early Childhood Origins of "Mean" Behavior | This brief first provides a summary of the developmental trajectory to bullying behavior and theories about social and environmental contributors to bullying. The remainder summarizes promising strategies and evidence-based intervention models designed to prevent bullying by addressing factors that contribute to the development of "mean" behavior and aggression in early childhood. | Document |
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 |
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. |
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