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Table 3 Happy children’s environmental health intervention core and elective modules and learning objectives

From: Interventions to promote healthy environments in family child care homes in Oklahoma—Happy Healthy Homes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Modules

Provider learning objectives

Core modules

 

 SMART goals (common with nutrition intervention)

• Describe specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely (SMART) goals

• Practice writing a SMART goal

• Develop a SMART goal for the family child care home (FCCH) for each subsequent module

 Children’s environmental health 101

• Describe why children are more vulnerable to environmental exposures

• Understand importance of reducing children’s environmental exposures

• Identify potential environmental exposures in FCCHs

 Integrated pest management 101

• Discuss current pesticide use in FCCH

• Understand concepts of pesticide residue

• Understand integrated pest management and less-toxic pest control methods

 Staff behaviors: leading the way for safer environments

• Recognize specific behaviors that can reduce environmental exposures

• Discuss ways to involve children in actions to reduce potential exposures

Elective Modules

 

 Green cleaning: sanitizing safely and effectively

• Understand difference between cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting

• Identify safer cleaning products and practices

• Learn ways to reduce exposures to chemicals in cleaning products

 Safer toys and art supplies

• Understand importance of choosing safer plastics and art supplies

• Recognize third-party certified art supplies

• Recognize plastics to avoid

 How to read a pesticide label

• Recognize whether a pesticide is legal for use

• Understand different sections of a pesticide label and their meaning

• Describe importance of using least-toxic pesticides

 Steps to pest-free indoor environment

• Recognize situations inside the home that can attract pests

• Identify simple and inexpensive methods to prevent, control, and manage indoor pests

• Describe importance of using least toxic pesticides indoors

 Steps to pest-free outdoor environment

• Recognize situations outside the home that can attract pests

• Identify simple and inexpensive methods to prevent, control, and manage outdoor pests

• Describe importance of using least toxic pesticides outdoors

 Reducing asthma triggers

• Identify triggers of asthma in the indoor environment

• Discuss strategies for reducing asthma triggers

• Utilize community resources for asthma

 Lead safety

• Understand sources and dangers of lead exposures

• Identify simple steps to reduce lead exposure

• Utilize community resources to further prevent lead exposure

 Safer furnishing and napping

• Understand importance of choosing nap equipment and furniture that do not contain harmful chemicals

• Recognize toxic products to avoid

• Identify simple ways to clean to reduce chemicals and toxins