Child Care Water Quality and Extended Closures
Learn how to ensure drinking water quality during and after extended closures.
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Safe environments
Making sure environments are safe allows children to explore and learn with less risk. Promoting a culture of safety prevents injury and illness.
Review these resources to learn more about how to create safe environments.
Preventing Oral Injuries
Oral injuries to the face and mouth happen often among young children. Explore strategies Head Start staff can use to help prevent these injuries.
Head Start Forward: Health and Safety Considerations
Listen to the fourth webinar in the five-part Head Start Forward series for important health and safety considerations, guidance, and support programs can use as they work toward full enrollment and fully in-person comprehensive services.
Vaccine and Mask Requirements to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start Programs
Explore how the requirements announced in the Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) will help mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Preamble to the Final Rule on Vaccine and Mask Requirements
The Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) adds new provisions to the Head Start Program Performance Standards to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Head Start programs. Read this Preamble for more details.
Creating Healthy and Safe Environments
This webinar explores how child care health consultants can collaborate with Head Start directors and teachers to create healthy and safe learning environments.
Addressing Child Incidents Through a Culture of Safety
Watch this webinar to learn about the role of Head Start programs in reporting health and safety incidents. Find out about resources to train and support staff to build a program-wide culture of safety and wellness.
Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 in Head Start Programs
Check out these resources to learn more about the requirement that Head Start programs have an evidence-based COVID-19 mitigation policy.
