Wisconsin Child Care Information Center
2109 S Stoughton Rd, Madison, WI 53716
1-800-362-7353 or (608) 224-5388
Fax: (608) 224-6178
E-mail: ccic@dpi.wi.gov
Internet: http://dpi.wi.gov/ccic

Packets Available from CCIC to Support Child Care Licensing Rules

The Child Care Information Center (CCIC) offers these free packets of print materials to Wisconsin child care providers and early childhood teachers at the request of child care licensing specialists. The packets provide information to help centers meet licensing requirements in the areas of:

Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Guidance and Positive Discipline
Emergency Preparedness
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Please call toll-free, fax, email, or mail CCIC to order a single copy of any or all of the packets.

Child Abuse and Neglect

1. It shouldn't hurt to be a child (DHFS brochure)
2. Child sexual abuse prevention: Tips to parents (Children's Trust Fund)
3. Think you know something about child abuse? (Prevent Child Abuse America)
4. Safe, adventurous, and loving (by Peg Flandreau West)
5. What parents can do about stress (CCIC)
6. Never shake a baby! (Children's Trust Fund)
7. Wisconsin Statutes on child abuse and neglect
8. Building circles, breaking cycles (NAEYC brochure)
   Also available in Spanish
9. Anger, dismay, guilt, anxiety-the realities and roles in reporting child abuse (Young Children, 9/1999)

More brochures about child abuse prevention and positive parenting are available from the Children's Trust Fund.

Child Guidance and Positive Discipline

Infants, Toddlers, Twos

1. Best practices tips: Guiding behavior of toddlers (WCCIP tip sheet)
2. Love & learn (NAEYC brochure in English or Spanish)
3. Love at First Bite (Lorna Aaronson article)
4. Structure for success (Child Care Information Exchange 3/2000)

Preschoolers - Early Elementary

5. Five tips for guiding children's behavior
6. Guidance techniques that work (Texas Child Care, Spring 2002)
7. Positive discipline: Six strategies for guiding behavior (Texas Child Care, Fall 1998)
8. Helping young children learn self-control (NAEYC brochure)
9. Plain talk about how to deal with an angry child
10. Plain talk about how children grow
11. Plain talk about how to be a perfect parent
12. Plain talk about child discipline

Emergency Preparedness

1. Code Blue! (Child Care Information Exchange (CCIE) 1/96)
2. Early childhood safety checklist #1: Emergency preparedness (CCIE 9/93)
3. Your center needs an emergency/crisis plan (CCIE 5/91)
4. Emergency Preparedness Kit (American Red Cross)
5. Emergency preparedness guide (McFarland Community Preparedness)
6. Directory of County Emergency Management Directors
7. Model Child Care Health Policies, 4th ed. pp.9-13+App C,D,L,N,O,P,Q

More information about emergency preparedness in child care is available on the following websites:

8. Ready to Respond (Bright Horizons)
9. Day Care Emergency Planning Tool Kit (PA Emergency Management Agency)
10. Emergency/Disaster Preparedness for Child Care Programs: Applicable Standards from Caring for Our Children

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

1. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the child care provider
2. Safe sleep for your baby (generic)
3. Safe sleep for your baby (Afro American)
4. Ponga al bebé a dormir sin peligros
5. A child care provider's guide to safe sleep
6. A parent's guide to safe sleep
7. Back to sleep, tummy to play

More information on SIDS prevention is available on the Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign website, including the Reducing the Risk of SIDS in Child Care Speaker's Kit in English or Spanish and in PDF or PowerPoint formats.

For questions about this information, contact Glenna M. Carter (608) 224-6173

Last updated on 2/28/2008 8:18:29 AM