Safety and Injury Prevention: Health Tips for Families
This fact sheet provides easy tips families can use to ensure their children's health and safety at home, outside, in the water, and in a car or truck.
10 Actions to Create a Culture of Safety
Everyone contributes to an environment that allows people to speak up about safety concerns. Explore this resource to learn how to create a culture of safety in your program.
Cold Weather Safety
Children are more vulnerable than adults to the effects of cold weather. These tips help Head Start parents and staff keep children safe, healthy, and warm in the winter.
Keep Children Safe Using Active Supervision
Keep children safe and reduce injuries by having staff learn and continuously practice active supervision. Use these resources to plan for a systematic approach to child supervision.
Active Supervision
All Head Start staff, from classroom teachers to bus drivers, are responsible for making sure no child is left unsupervised. Find out what active supervision is and how to use it across all program activities.
Even Plants Can Be Poisonous
Plants are important to our health and well-being, and they can help children understand and respect the natural world.
Tips for Keeping Children Safe: A Developmental Guide - Young Infants
Infants depend on their caregivers for food, warmth, and care, and for meeting such basic needs as eating, diapering, sleeping, and bonding. But all babies are unique. Some infants may settle easily and be capable of quickly soothing themselves.
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
These resources will help early childhood programs learn more about emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.
Safety Practices
Early childhood programs keep children safe when their facilities, materials, and equipment are free of hazards and staff promote safety practices like active supervision. These resources help staff and families reduce the number and severity of childhood injuries. Discover tips for use at home, in cars and buses, on the playground, and in all early childhood settings.
Tips for Keeping Children Safe: A Developmental Guide
During the first five years, children constantly acquire new skills and knowledge. Caregivers who know what children can do and how they can get hurt can protect them from injury.