Caring for Young Children Living with Sickle Cell Disease
This resource includes tips and information for Head Start staff and other early childhood program staff to care for a child with sickle cell disease.
Chronic Health Conditions
Head Start staff play an important role in promoting safe, responsive, inclusive, and individualized services for children with known or suspected special health care needs, such as asthma, epilepsy, and diabetes. Explore this collection to learn about chronic health conditions that affect young children. These resources will help staff gain knowledge and skills to care for these children and support their families.
Children with Special Health Care Needs
In this chapter of the Health Manager Orientation Guide, learn about the health manager’s role in caring for children with special health care needs.
Caring for Children with Food Allergies
Food allergies can be serious, and it is important that caregivers know how to help care for children who have them. Explore tips and information about food allergies and intolerances here.
Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Learn about the unique support that child care health consultants (CCHCs) give to early childhood programs as staff manage children’s health conditions.
Medication Administration
In this chapter in the Health Manager Orientation Guide, learn about the role of the health manager in medication administration.
Asthma and COVID-19 in Children
Use these tips to help children with asthma participate safely in program activities while there is an increase in COVID-19 cases in the area.
Food Allergies
This video stresses the need for safe plans and protocols for children with food allergies and provides some strategies and questions to reflect on.
Healthy Breathing: Health Tips for Families
In this fact sheet, find information for families about asthma. Also, learn more about ways families can eliminate tobacco exposure.