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California Child Care Health Connections
CHP is a lead agency for partnership development and successful integration of community collaborations among the health, safety and child care communities. CHP works with other community-based child care health and safety organizations to implement its mission of enhancing all children's healthy and safe development by promoting quality child care. (Available to all of the child care community, whether center-based, family child care, parent cooperatives, Head Start, or school-based child care.)
http://www.childcarehealth.org

Children First Ventura County
The Children First Ventura County provides developmental screening, PHN case management, and health education services to children 0-5 years of age, their families and caregivers. Services are provided by Health Educators and Public Health Nurses in the Neighborhood for Learning (NfL) communities.  For more information please contact them at 805-654-7618. or: http://www.vchca.org/dos/Program.asp?ProgID=181

Child Passenger Safety Websites
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-has car set recall list: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
• Child Passenger Safety Web-also a NHTSA website:http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.9f8c7d6359e0e9bbbf30811060008a0c/
• Safety Belt Safe-has a hotline, email Q&A service, & resources: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/childps/
• California's Child Passenger Safety Law effective January 2005: http://apcce.org/v-web/portal/cms/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42
• The International Center for Injury Prevention-resources & bulk child restraints: http://www.cipsafe.org
• American Academy of Pediatrics-good basic resources & advocacy positions: http://www.aap.org
• Car Seat Compatibility Listing-this is a parent generated data base-unknown: http://www.carseatdata.org
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety-technical information such as child passenger safety & collisions: http://www.hwysafety.org
• EZ-On Products Inc.-sells special needs equipment: http://www.ezonpro.com

Community Care Licensing, A Division of California Dept of Social Services
It is the mission of Community Care Licensing to promote the health, safety, and quality of life of each person in community care through the administration of an effective collaborative regulatory enforcement system. This is accomplished by working collaboratively with clients, their families. Advocates, care providers, placement agencies, related programs and regulatory agencies, and other involved in community care. Also by promoting continuous improvement and efficiency throughout the community care licensing system.
http://ccld.ca.gov

Consumer Product Safety Commission

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children.
http://www.cpsc.gov

Nutrition Explorations
Website provides timely, scientifically sound nutrition information to the media, physicians, dietitians, nurses, educators, consumers and others concerned about fostering a healthier society.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/index.asp

Healthy Child Care America
The Healthy Child Care America (HCCA) program is a collaborative effort of health professionals, child care providers, and families working to improve the health and safety of children in child care. HCCA seeks to maximize the health, safety, well-being, and developmental potential of all children so that each child experiences quality child care within a nurturing environment and has a medical home.
http://www.nccic.org/hcca/

National Network for Child Care
NNCC unites the expertise of many of the nation's leading universities through the outreach system of Cooperative Extension. Our goal is to share knowledge about children and child care from the vast resources of the landgrant universities with parents, professionals, practitioners, and the general public. They network with committed individuals around the country to bring you practical information and resources that will be useful to you in your everyday work with children.
http://www.nncc.org/

National Safe Kids Campaign
The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first and only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury — the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
http://www.safekids.com/

 
 
   
   

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