Welcome to the North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center!

The NC Resource Center’s mission is to promote healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments in early care and education settings through child care health consultation. 

The NC Resource Center provides:

• Health and safety training and technical assistance to early educators to support children in child care and their families.
• Professional development opportunities, resources, and current best practices around health and safety in child care.
• Guidance and connection to local, regional, and state-wide child health and child care partners focusing on current health and safety priorities.
• Qualification, ongoing professional support, and coaching for Child Care Health Consultants.

For information related to child health and health and safety in child care, please explore our website.

• To contact the NC Resource Center, use the online form or toll free number 1-800-367-2229. Anyone in the greater early care and education community is welcome to call.
• Use this link to find a Child Care Health Consultant (CCHC) in your community.

Recent Posts

• E-Newsletter: Spring 2025, Volume 9, Issue 4

  Happy Spring to our readers. We invite you to read and share our health and safety newsletter of the quarter. This edition focuses on choosing safe products and using products safely.  

• E-Newsletter: Winter 2025, Volume 9, Issue 3 (Now Available in Spanish)

  Our NC Resource Center’s Winter 2025 E-Newsletter, “Winter, Weather, & Safety” is now available in Spanish (El invierno, el agua y la seguridad ). This winter edition is filled with information on emergency preparedness, response, and recovery, Infant and Young Child … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Winter 2025, Volume 9, Issue 3 Now Available

  Our first health and safety newsletter of 2025 “Winter, Water, and Safety” is now available. This winter edition features information and resources to support early educators related to water safety and emergency preparedness. We invite you to read it and … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Fall 2024, Volume 9, Issue 2 (Now Available in Spanish)

  Our Fall 2024 E-Newsletter, “Take Action – Vaccine Preventable Diseases” is now available in Spanish (Tome medidas – Enfermedades prevenibles mediante vacunación). It includes information and resources on child and adult immunizations and more. As we move further into the … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Fall 2024, Volume 9, Issue 2 Now Available

  Our Fall 2024 Newsletter, Take Action – Vaccine Preventable Diseases is now available. This edition includes reminders and resources around immunizations and vaccine preventable diseases. We invite you to read it and share with early educators and other early care … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Summer 2024, Volume 9, Issue 1 (Now Available in Spanish)

  We are happy to share that the Spanish version of our Summer 2024 newsletter, Inclusion: Communicating with Care |  Inclusión: la comunicación cuidadosa is now available. We encourage you to share the newsletter with Spanish-speaking early educators in your network. … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Summer 2024, Volume 9, Issue 1 Now Available

  Happy Summer! Our Summer 2024 E-Newsletter, “Inclusion: Communicating with Care” is now available. This edition of our quarterly newsletter is filled with information on inclusion such as ensuring the classroom environment is inclusive, communicating with families of children with disabilities … Read more

• E-Newsletter: Spring 2024, Volume 8, Issue 4 (Now Available in Spanish)

  Our Spring 2024 newsletter, Connecting the Dots| Formación de relaciones is now available in Spanish. We encourage you to share the newsletter with Spanish-speaking early educators in your network.

• E-Newsletter: Spring 2024, Volume 8, Issue 4 Now Available

  Our Spring 2024 Newsletter “Connecting the Dots” is now available. The newsletter highlights the work of Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) and early childhood system partners. We encourage you to read it and share with others in your network.  

• E-Newsletter: Winter 2023-2024, Volume 8, Issue 3 (Now Available in Spanish)

  We are happy to share that the Spanish version of our Spring 2023-2024 newsletter, It’s the Little Things: Preventing Food Borne Illness in Child Care | Son los detalles. Prevención de enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos en ambientes de cuidado infantil is … Read more