This June-July issue...

...of HealthyChildcare® is a special issue devoted to Summer Safety. While each issue of HealthyChildcare® is presented to you with a balance of health and safety topics, occasionally we do a special issue where each of the five sections focus around one general topic.

We are proud to present this Special Issue to you in partnership with the Sun Safety Alliance. This terrific organization works hard to inform about sun safety and they have a strong program in place to educate early childhood programs on the need for care in the sun. The Hip On Health mini poster and parent letter included in this issue are special ones designed for the Sun Safety Alliance and provided to HealthyChildcare® for you to use. Thank you, Sun Safety Alliance for helping us bring this important issue to you.

In this Special Summer Safety issue, you will find a variety of articles that can help you prepare for warm weather activities. In Nutrition Action, Madeleine Sigman-Grant outlines how to safely pack lunches in the warmer months. If you missed the April-May issue of HealthyChildcaree®, it included an article by Madeleine on the types of nutritious foods that can be included in foods sent from home.

Our Safety First article is by Anarella Cellitti and focuses on playground safety. In Medicine Chest, Connie Jo Smith and HealthyChildcare® editor Charlotte Hendricks look at sun safe planning in the early care and education setting.

Alissa D’Amelio, program coordinator for the Sun Safety Alliance, is a new author to HealthyChildcare® and her article on skin cancer prevention in our Health & You section provides information that can you year ’round, not just in the summer months.

To the many childcare programs who ordered extra copies of this Special Summer Safety Issue, we thank you...and hope that you will read them again and again to keep abreast of these important topics. Additional printed copies are available; call us if you need extra copies.


Kathryn Breighner
Publisher