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California Childcare Healthline

A Good Idea

Description

Children in early care and education (ECE) settings in California experience wide disparities in the quality of the health and safety of those settings. California Childcare Health Program's multidisciplinary team staffs our toll-free Childcare Healthline, answering questions from ECE professionals on health and safety; trains ECE professionals on health and safety in ECE settings; and produces materials (available on our website) on health and safety in English and Spanish for professionals and families.

Goal / Mission

The goals of this program are to promote and maintain the broadest understanding of health and wellness in early childhood settings and to create linkages and promote collaboration between health and safety professionals and child care professionals.

Results / Accomplishments

The program receives hundreds of phone queries each month and the website averages 700 users/day. The services are enthusiastically endorsed by the ECE professionals who use them.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
UCSF California Childcare Health Program
Primary Contact
Victoria Leonard
1333 Broadway Suite 1010
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 281-7940
vleonard@ucsfchildcarehealth.org
http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org
Topics
Health / Children's Health
Health / Maternal, Fetal & Infant Health
Health / Health Care Access & Quality
Organization(s)
UCSF California Childcare Health Program
Source
American Public Health Association
Date of publication
2006
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
For more details
http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/html/healthline...
Target Audience
Children

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.