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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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| Bright Futures for Families | The Bright Futures for Families website has information on development. The site includes downloadable "Talkcards" for families, a health care visit checklist as well as a check list for a health care visit for children with special health care needs. The purpose of the site is to empower families to advocate for their child. | Website |
| 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 |
| Brilliant Bilingual Babies | "Babies are remarkably good at learning languages in their first year of life. In this brief from the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning, find out how home visitors can support young children who are learning more than one language. Discover the most up-to-date information to answer three prompts: “What does research say?”; “What does it look like?”; and “Try this!” This resource is also available in SPANISH. | Document |
| 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 Up on Oral Health | Head Start staff can use this series of tip sheets to support the oral health of children, pregnant people, and families enrolled in Head Start programs. These sheets include up-to-date practices and practical tips to promote good oral health. | Website |
| 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 HOPE Through Teamwork In Child Care Settings | Develop your leadership skills by exploring the HOPE method for teamwork. Learn how the foundational principles outlined in the HOPE acronym can be utilized to promote a positive and enriching environment that will benefit children, families, and staff.Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - VI: Professionalism CDA Content Area - VI: Maintaining a commitment to professionalismLevel 3 - Designs & Leads🔊 This course includes Audio and is accessible from a mobile device. For optimal performance, viewing from a computer or tablet is highly recommended. New Navigation ToolsClick on the black box with 2 white arrows to view the self-study in Full-Screen Mode.Click on the black box with white eyeglasses to view the self-study in Accessibility Mode.For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500 word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org. *Disregard any directions regarding a final quiz. The only learning assessment needed is the reflection paper. | Course |
| Building HOPE Through Teamwork in Child Care Settings | The foundational principles outlined in the HOPE acronym can naturally encourage teamwork and collaboration to promote a positive and enriching environment to benefit children, families, and staff. For a more in-depth study on the HOPE method for teamwork, we recommend our course on the subject found here. | Tipsheet |
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