Healthy Child Care Update: Partnerships Increase Healthy and Safety of Children in Care

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Healthy Child ◽  
Children In Care

Regulation and Guidelines Toward a Healthy Child-Care Setting

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1104-1107
Author(s):  
Pauline D. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Healthy Child ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Child Care Setting ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Cost Efficient

States can make a strong investment in creating a healthy child-care setting by developing coordinated career development systems for child-care practitioners. The licensing agency must be involved and is the logical agency to administer the system. Through a project entitled "Delaware First. Again," Delaware became the first in the country to develop a plan for a comprehensive, coordinated statewide early care and education career system. The project is directed by the Office of Child Care Licensing with consultation from Gwen Morgan and Joan Costley of Wheelock College and Nancy Brown of North Carolina State University. The focus on training and career development will prove to be a cost efficient and effective method for states to substantially improve the health and safety of children in child care and will provide advocacy for stronger licensing requirements. Long-term improvement will only accrue with corresponding substantial improvement in the wages and other employee benefits for the people who work with our children. In summary, regulation and guidelines can play an increasingly larger role in creating a healthy child-care setting. There is much to be done at the national, state, and local levels to accomplish this goal. With continued strong advocacy and a coordinated effort, the goal can be met.

Train-the-Trainer Approach in the Eco-Healthy Child Care® Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Robyn Gilden ◽  
Kathleen McElroy ◽  
Erika Friedmann ◽  
Adam Spanier ◽  
Heesook Son ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Healthy Child ◽  
Train The Trainer

Psychoses and Child Care

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Healthy Child ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Healthy Adult ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Emotional Environment

This essay describes how the tasks involved in the early stages of infant emotional development cannot be accomplished except in an emotional environment that is good enough. Childcare aims to produce a healthy child and, ultimately, a healthy adult. Winnicott emphasises his belief that mental health is laid down by the mother during her maternal preoccupation with the care of her infant, and he details various ‘failures’ of care and environment that can lead to later mental illness for the child.

Not just a job: A study of the needs of residential child care workers in Melbourne, Australia

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Residential Child Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Children In Care

While it is universally accepted that residential child care workers have a key role to play in the quality of services for children in care, the working conditions of many staff are poor and do not reflect the importance of their work. Very little research has been undertaken which focuses on the needs of residential child care staff. The following study examined the factors affecting the job satisfaction of residential child care workers in Melbourne, Australia.

Filling the Gap - Creating Healthy Child Care Environments

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teree Hokanson ◽  
Danielle Ladouceur
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Healthy Child
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