Best Practice Recommendations

• Presentation by Susan Coburn, Nutrition and Physical Activity Chief, Department of Health and Tracie Clarke, Hunger Free Vermont.
• Healthy Child Care Vermont - Vermont Child Care Licensing Recommendations: Health and Safety Presentation by Peggy Poppe, Child Care Health  Consultant, RN, MSN
• Public Health on Immunizations and Reportable Diseases Presentation by Christine Finley, MSN, MPH, Immunization Program Chief, Department of Health.Information about immunizations is available on the Vermont Department of Health website.

Other Meeting Materials:

1. In preparation for the Regulations Revision Project meetings, we are providing you a link to a resource that will be a very helpful. The topic for the May 19th meeting is HEALTH.  Chapters 3 and 4 in Caring for Our Children include content related to Health.  It would be helpful if you look through these sections in preparation for this meeting. You may want to download or bookmark this resource because it will be used in future meetings. 

   Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs
   http://nrckids.org/CFOC3/index.html

   The recommended standards in Caring for Our Children were developed by a wide variety of nationally recognized experts.  The document includes not only the recommended standards, but also the rational behind each standard. 

   Caring for Our Children is resource for the national perspective that will help you write regulations that make sense for Vermont's Center-Based and Family Child Care programs.  

    

2. You may find this report, released by the Early Education Initiative, interesting. It ranked each state on 16 different metrics for quality in “family child care homes”.

   http://earlyed.newamerica.net/blogposts/2012/report_finds_states_lack_oversight_of_small_family_child_care_homes-66482
    

3. National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education Licensing Toolkit User Guide focused on How to Avoid or Limit Foods High in Sugar in Child Care.