Health, Safety and Nutrition for the Early Childhood Program
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10 Hours Professional Development Online
Health, Safety and Nutrition for the Early Childhood Program
A certificate will be issued for this 10-hour course upon successful completion of all 4 topics listed below.
This 10-hour course is designed to teach some of the basic procedures of cleanliness and infection control for keeping children and yourself healthy. As an early learning professional, you must be familiar with and understand the regulations. Ensuring the children’s health and safety is always your primary responsibility as an early childhood professional. Parents must be confident that their children will be safe in early childhood programs.
Learning Outcomes:
Topics Included in this Course:
Washington STARS credit:
CDA: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment (10 hours)
Click here for Information on State Annual Training Approvals
A certificate will be issued for this 10-hour course upon successful completion of all 4 topics listed below.
This 10-hour course is designed to teach some of the basic procedures of cleanliness and infection control for keeping children and yourself healthy. As an early learning professional, you must be familiar with and understand the regulations. Ensuring the children’s health and safety is always your primary responsibility as an early childhood professional. Parents must be confident that their children will be safe in early childhood programs.
Learning Outcomes:
- After reading about the types of illnesses present in child care, participants will be able to identify these through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about communicable disease, participants will be able to recall this definition through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about the conditions for excluding children from care, participants will be able to identify these through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about keeping children safe in the classroom, participants will be able to apply this information to sample safety scenarios through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about hazards by age group, participants will be able to explain these through an open-ended question.
- After reading about ways to reducing falls in a child care facility, participants will be able to list these through an open-ended question.
- After reading about playground safety facts, participants will be able to identify these through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about playground hazards in child care programs, participants will be able to identify these through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about the difference between a risk and a hazard, participants will be able to recall this through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about the responsibilities of a teacher when feeding children, participants will be able to recall these responsibilities through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about encouraging good attitudes and eating habits in children, participants will be able to identify these through a multiple-choice quiz.
- After reading about creating weekly menus, participants will be able to create their own through an open-ended question.
Topics Included in this Course:
- Healthy Learning Environment (3 hours)
- Environmental Safety (3 hours)
- Playground Safety (2 hours)
- Healthy Meals for Young Children (2 hours)
Washington STARS credit:
- Health, Safety and Nutrition (10 hours)
CDA: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment (10 hours)
- Infant/Toddler
- Preschool
- Family Child Care (Mixed-Age)
Click here for Information on State Annual Training Approvals
Technical Requirements:
- Laptop or PC
- Most students are able to use mobile devices such as tablets to complete courses. However, each device is different, and an individual's skill level with the device may determine their success with using a mobile device.
- Recommended web browser: Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge, Safari and Firefox are other acceptable browsers.
- Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft, and you may have issues if you use it to take training.
- Make sure you’re using a current operating system (for example, Windows 10 or Apple OS).
- Outdated operating systems may cause technical difficulties.
- Slow internet speed may impact loading time.
- Videos may require Adobe Flash Player.
Terms of Use
You have access to online courses for 1 year from the date of payment, with the exception of the Child Care Basics which is a 6-month enrollment period.
You have access to online courses for 1 year from the date of payment, with the exception of the Child Care Basics which is a 6-month enrollment period.
- For immediate access to courses at the time of payment, enroll at our sister site www.myececlass.com.
- When enrolling on our home page at www.cdastars.com, the information to access the online course will be sent to the email address provided during enrollment hours.
*Times shown are Pacific Standard Time. If you are in Central or Eastern Time, you will need to adjust the time accordingly. - New Enrollments Are Set-Up During the Following Times:
Monday - Friday 7 am – 8 pm
Saturday & Sunday 9 am – 8 pm
Holidays 9 am – 8 pm - Registrations that are submitted at www.cdastars.com after enrollment hours will be processed the next morning. You will receive an email with information to access the course.
- Check your email for instructions to start the training. Click on the link in the email to access the course.
- Internet access is required. There are no text books for the training. The coursework is done completely online.
- Some students may find that they need to download or update Shockwave, Flash player or Java.
- Some students may find that they have to update their internet browser, this is most often the case when trying to use Internet Explorer. We recommend Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome for the best results. Our student support staff is happy to assist students with troubleshooting should you encounter technical issues, and will provide common suggestions for solving problems that occur when normal browser maintenance or application updates need to occur.
- Cancellations and refunds requested within 72 hours after enrollment are available for courses/programs that have NOT been accessed. Refunds and Cancellations will be charged a 20% cancellation fee.
- Once you log in and start a course, a refund is not available. After 72 hours, the payment credit can be transferred to a different training or to a new student if the training was not started by the original student for up to 30 days after enrollment.
- Refunds are not available after 72 hours from the date of payment.
- Refunds are not available for courses/programs that have been started.
- Our courses may, or may not, meet annual training requirements in your state. Please provide us with your state, and any State registry ID number, and if we are able to record your completed training with your state, we will. In some cases, for annual state credit, you will need to submit the certificate to the appropriate registry and they may or may not award annual credit. Providing a State Registry number to us does not guarantee that your state will approve the training for annual continuing education credit. Many states have QRIS systems that require specific courses to be completed for annual or in-service training. Do not enroll in this course for the purpose of completing a state specific mandated course without first verifying exactly what course requirements need to be met.
- For Washington State students, completed courses are recorded in MERIT Monday through Friday, throughout the day continuously, between 8 am and 3 PM. If you complete your training in the evening or over the weekend, it will be recorded on the next business day during those hours.
- During the last two weeks of December, expect longer processing times for enrollment and certificates due to the high volume of enrollments and completed trainings during the year end rush. We recommend enrolling and completing your training prior to the end of December whenever possible.
- Enrollment expires in 1 year from the date of payment for all courses, with the exception of the Child Care Basics.
