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Child Care Employee Project, Berkeley, CA. – 1984
Organized into three sections, these resource materials provide basic information for child caregivers about occupational hazards associated with child care work; personnel policies, staff burnout and environmental stressors; and employee rights. Contents of the first section include a general discussion of health and safety hazards in child care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Safety, Day Care, Disease Control
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., Ottawa (Ontario). – 1980
This report, the sixteenth in a series of twenty reports undertaken by the Children's Environments Advisory Service for the 1979 International Year of the Child, analyzes the difficulties of designing automobile traffic patterns for areas in which children reside. Automobile traffic and play patterns in 21 multiple-housing projects in the…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Community Planning, Community Zoning, Land Use
Cunningham, Laurie; Mathews, Joanne; Budlong, Michael; Brown-Manning, Robyn; Moore, Jane; Satterfield, Mattie; Watson, Janet; Zuskin, Ron – 2003
This workbook for kinship care providers is designed to be used with a comprehensive 6-module, 9-session curriculum, providing caregivers with 27 hours of information and support related to kinship care. Sessions are designed to facilitate interaction and the sharing of experiences and support among participants. Meetings utilize a task-based…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Development, Child Safety, Child Welfare
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Kunitz, Judith Ed.; Lucich, Mardi, Ed.; Walsh, Eileen, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2004
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Young Children
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2005
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Communicable Diseases
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Guralnick, Eva, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Lucich, Mardi, Ed.; Walsh, Eileen, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2004
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Poisoning
Feller, Markus – 2000
This report to the United Nations (U.N.) Committee on the Rights of the Child contains observations of the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) concerning the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Burundi. The report is presented in seven parts. Part 1 outlines preliminary observations regarding Burundi's ratification of…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Safety, Child Welfare
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 2002
Noting the significant increase since 1990 in food-borne illnesses affecting school children, these hearings transcripts provide testimony on the safety of federal school lunches. Statements by Senator Richard Durbin and Representatives Stephen Horn, Janice Schakowsky, and Carolyn Maloney emphasized the array of federal agencies with various food…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Child Safety
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, NE. – 2000
Keeping children safe in foster care is a critical concern for foster parents and the professionals working with them. This document is comprised of a set of four pamphlets, addressed to foster families and those working with foster families, providing information on medication safety, making foster care placements successful, working with social…
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Rearing, Child Safety, Child Welfare
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Hsu, James S. J.; Williams, Scott D. – American Journal of Public Health, 1991
A survey of 50 Native American and 100 other families assessed injury prevention awareness and practices among urban Native Americans in Salt Lake City (Utah). Native American families were less aware of and less likely to practice prevention than others. These characteristics are more likely caused by low-income status than culture. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accidents, Adults, American Indians, Child Neglect
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Lees, Nancy B.; Tinsley, Barbara J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
This study examined the nature of mothers' beliefs about children's health, the manner in which these beliefs influence maternal affect and teaching tactics during health socialization, and the effects of these parenting strategies on children's healthy and safe behavior. Findings suggest that mothers' socialization of children's health may be…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Safety, Early Childhood Education, Health Behavior
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Brenner, Eliot; Freundlich, Madelyn – Child Welfare, 2006
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 has made child safety an explicit focus in child welfare. The authors describe an automated critical incident reporting program designed for use in foster care and family-support programs. The program, which is based in Lotus Notes and uses e-mail to route incident reports from direct service staff to…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Child Safety, Foster Care, Family Programs
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Foot, Hugh; Woolfson, Lisa; Terras, Melody; Norfolk, Claire – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2004
The perceptions and experiences of hard-to-manage behaviours were explored among 32 staff working in a variety of local authority and private nurseries and playgroups. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to ascertain what behaviours in children staff find most challenging, how they were managed and concerns communicated to parents. Results…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Care
Greco, Michael D., Ed – Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 2007
The "CURA Reporter" is published quarterly to provide information about the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Neighborhood Improvement, After School Programs, Art Education
Kendall, Sally; Straw, Suzanne; Jones, Megan; Springate, Iain; Lord, Pippa; Stoney, Sheila – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
In 2007, the Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned the NFER to review the best evidence on what works in narrowing the gap in outcomes for vulnerable groups across the five Every Child Matters areas. The review aimed to underpin the Narrowing the Gap Programme, a major development programme being implemented by the LGA and the DCSF. …
Descriptors: Child Health, At Risk Students, Health Promotion, Child Safety
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