Healthy Child Care Information for Child Care Providers
Wooden playground equipment may expose children to arsenic if it's Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) treated. Learn more about CCA (PDF).
Child Care Training and Curriculum Resources
April, 2012 EPA Webinar on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Child Care Settings
- Option 1 - View the training document (PDF, 106 pp, 31.8 Mb)
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Option 2 - Replay the training session
Note : Option 2 requires registration on a non-EPA site, and may require downloading a help file to replay the audio-visual training session. If the site does not prompt you for the helper file (codec), then install the helper codec, and click on the training session link again.
IPM training for child care providers in 10 modules:
- Module 1 - Introduction (PDF, 34 pp, 1645 K)
- Module 2 - for Child Care Center Directors (PDF, 32 pp, 833 K)
- Module 3 - for Child Care Center Maintenance Staff (PDF, 33 pp, 2429 K)
- Module 4 - for Child Care Center Teachers and Caregivers (PDF, 31 pp, 1776 K)
- Module 5 - Mice and Rats (PDF, 58 pp, 12.9 Mb)
- Module 6 - Cockroaches (PDF, 46 pp, 4.4 Mb)
- Module 7 - Bed Bugs (PDF, 42 pp, 3.8 Mb)
- Module 8 - Flies (PDF, 16 pp, 1219 K)
- Module 9 - Ants (PDF, 24 pp, 2.4 Mb)
- Module 10 - Head Lice (PDF, 16 pp, 705 K)
The following sites exit the EPA web site.
- Eco-Healthy Child Care, from Children's Environmental Health Network
- Indiana Department of Environmental Management Five-Star Child Care Program
- Asthma-friendly Child Care Training from the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago
- Asthma Education for Childcare and Preschool Staff, from California Breathing
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Curriculum for Preschool Children and their Parents (PDF) (90 pp, 411K), teacher's guide from the New York State Department of Health
- Training Curricula, from the California Childcare Health Program. Includes curricula for child care health consultants and advocates, lead poisoning prevention, asthma, integrated pest management, and more.