Happy New Year ! Our first health and safety newsletter of the year Winter 2023-2024, It’s the Little Things: Preventing Food Borne Illness in Child Care is now available. This edition includes sanitation reminders, resources, and activities to help prevent food borne illness in child care. We invite you to read it and share with early educators and other partners in the early childhood system.

Our Summer 2023 newsletter, All Creatures Great and Small | Todas las criaturas grandes y pequeñas is now available in Spanish. We encourage you to share the newsletter with Spanish-speaking early educators in your network.

It’s the time of the year for our Summer 2023 newsletter. This quarter’s newsletter, All Creatures Great and Small is now available. This edition of our health and safety newsletter highlights how to prepare for indoor and outdoor pest, child care rules on pets and service animals, safe storage of products such as bug spray and pesticides and much more. New resources, trainings, and technical assistance information has also been included to support early educators. We invite you to read it and share the newsletter.

Our Winter 2021/2022 newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 3:“All Children Welcome Here” is now available in Spanish. This issue includes information and resources to support creating accessible and inclusive child care environments. Please share the Spanish version, “Volumen 6, Número 3:”ATodos los niños son bienvenidos aquí” with the Spanish speaking early educators in your network.

We want to announce that our Fall 2021 newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 2: “Don’t Lose Your Cool – Keeping Children Safe as the Weather Gets Chilly” is now available in Spanish. Please help us by sharing the Spanish version, “Volumen 6, Número 2: ¡Que no te caiga como balde de agua fría! – Cómo mantener a los niños a salvo conforme el clima enfría” with the Spanish speaking early educators in your network.

The Fall season is here. Just in time for Fire Safety week, our Fall 2021 newsletter is now available. This newsletter is filled with reminders on how to keep children and staff in child care programs safe. We invite you to read and share the newsletter.

This post was updated 5/11/2020. Please contact your Child Care Health Consultant for the latest flowchart, as guidance may vary from county to county. Visit the NC DHHS website for details about COVID-19 symptoms, and information about minimum self-isolation and quarantine recommendations.