Our purpose is to help ensure the health and safety of children in child care.

Families and professional caregivers of young children find the support they need through Healthy Child Care Washington, a statewide network of Child Care Health Consultants located in every local health jurisdiction.

Child Care Health Consultants work with local child care providers, families, child care licensors, Child Care Resource & Referral programs, and others in the community.

Consultants offer assistance on a variety of topics, such as:

• Brain development.
• Communicable disease.
• Nutrition and feeding.
• Environmental safety.
• Social-emotional issues.
• Oral health.
• Sleep patterns and positions.
• Speech, hearing and vision.

Healthy Child Care Washington is a partnership of the Department of Health Division of Maternal & Child Health, Washington State Child Health Care Resource & Referral Network, and the Department of Early Learning.  The department administers Healthy Child Care Washington, and coordinates services with local health jurisdictions.

Child-Care Providers can contact Child-Care Health Consultants through their local health jurisdictions.

Helpful Links

	To request copies of "Child Care and the Americans with Disabilities Act" contact the Children with Special Health Care Needs program.
	Disaster Procedures for Child Care is an Adobe portable document file with information about many emergencies.  Print this document on both sides of 8.5"x11" landscape paper, fold it in half and staple in the center to create a booklet for your daycare. Documents posted in .pdf version on the Department of Health Web site will be made available in an alternative format on request to users who are unable to download or view .pdf files on the Web.  To request an alternative format, contact: Jeniffer Hansen at Child and Adolescent Health.
Helpful Links  Links to external resources are provided as a public service and do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health.
Child Care Licenses and information for child-care centers (or homes) is available through the Washington State Department of Early Learning.
The Washington State Child-Care Resource & Referral Network can help families locate safe, licensed child care.
The National Child Care Information Center offers information and resources about choosing quality child care, and links to other child care sites.
The Washington State Child-Care Coordinating Committee provides information about child-care policy and related concerns.
Bright Futures Guidelines for parents and health care providers to help children from birth through adolescence grow up healthy.
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Links to external resources are provided as a public service and do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health.

Documents posted in PDF version on the Department of Health website will be made available in an alternative format on request to users who are unable to download or view PDF files on the web. To request documents on the Child and Adolescent Health Section website in alternative format, contact cah.support@doh.wa.gov or 360-236-3531.

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