Asthma education and resources to help you care for preschool children with asthma (PPTs, fact sheets, videos, curriculum, etc...)
Provided by the University of Minnesota School of Nursing
12-minute streaming presentation by Krista Ward on the experience of the organization "Breathe California Golden Gate Public Health Partnership" in providing asthma education to child care staff in the San Francisco Bay Area. This video will be of particular interest to program managers and others who organize this work. It describes how Breathe California provided training, and helped to institutionalize practices addressing asthma/environmental triggers, and includes a discussion of an "Asthma-Friendly Child Care" award to a Head Start staff member.
This hands-on resource is intended to equip child care practitioners (CCPs) and public health inspectors (PHIs) who routinely visit child care centres with practical information on ways to prevent and reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals and pollutants in these environments. The goal is to support the ongoing efforts of CCPs, PHIs and families to promote optimal child health and development by focusing on environmental exposures as one of the many important factors that determine child health outcomes. This resource also includes suggestions to encourage sustainable operations of child care facilities, including pollution prevention, waste reduction, and energy and water conservation.
Section 1 provides an overview of children's vulnerabilities, health issues and exposures of concern in the child care setting.
Section 2 presents the checklist of possible actions to improve environmental health in various indoor and outdoor settings.
Section 3 provides background information and suggested resources relevant to each of the checklist sections.
