Inclusion Matters

Join Sarah Hawley, a Child Care Health Consultant and Public Health Nurse, as she shares her expertise on creating safe play environments for children. She discusses the importance of regular safety checks and the role of adult supervision to prevent accidents in play spaces. Sarah highlights the need for appropriate staff-to-child ratios and how staffing shortages can impact child safety. Additionally, she offers essential tips on first aid supplies for playgrounds, ensuring caregivers are prepared for minor injuries during playtime.

Join Pediatric Occupational Therapist Alyssa Mason, who specializes in the sensory needs of young children, as she delves into the intricacies of preschoolers' experiences. She shares insights on recognizing sensory challenges in early education and provides strategies for creating calm, supportive environments. Mason discusses enhancing snack time with sensory-friendly practices, optimizing seating for stability, and adapting spaces to manage sensory overload, ensuring each child's unique needs are met in a nurturing setting.

Public health nurse Sarah Hawley from Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants shares her expertise on safe and healthy naptime routines for children. She discusses the crucial role of structured sleep practices in childcare settings, highlighting age-specific sleep needs and optimal naptime conditions. Sarah emphasizes the importance of the ABCs of infant sleep safety, insisting on creating secure environments for young ones. Practical tips are provided for enhancing children's napping experiences and fostering collaboration between caregivers and parents to support quality sleep.

In this episode, our guest Danielle Hayden, Supervisor of Early Childhood Special Education at the Minnesota Department of Education joins us to provide an overview of the state of the state as it relates to early intervention across Minnesota in post-Covid realities.

In this episode (in Somali) Bureeqo Dahir, CICC Coach, and special guest Marian Hassan discuss the importance of understanding Mental Health and the need for communication and information sharing around this important topic.  They also explain how Mental Health affects every aspect of our lives- emotional, psychological, and social well-being; how we feel, think, behave, and relate to others. Dhacdadan (af  Soomaaliga ah ) Bureeqo Dahir, CICC Coach kaa ah, iyo martida gaarka ah Marian Hassan waxay ka wada hadlayaan muhiimadda fahamka Caafimaadka Maskaxda iyo baahida loo qabo isgaarsiinta iyo macluumaadka wadaagga mowduucan muhiimka ah.  Waxay sidoo kale sharraxaan sida Caafimaadka Maskaxda u saameeyo dhinac kasta oo nolosheena ah - shucuur, cilmi nafsi, iyo wanaag bulsho; sida aan dareemeyno, u fikirno, u dhaqanno, una xiriirno kuwa kale.

Our guest Sarah Hawley of Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants is back again for another episode to support healthy child care settings.  Priscilla Weigel and Sarah discuss the common illnesses that require exclusion from child care settings and why.  Policies and communication with families and staff are also discussed as well as illness that does not require exclusion.

Join us for this special episode of Inclusion Matters as we talk with Margaret Mahowld, Director of Calvary Child Care.  She shares her path to hope in the staffing crisis detailing her step by step plan to keep her child care setting open and able to continue to support families.

Public Health Nurse Sarah Hawley, from Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants talks with us about ways to keep the whole team healthy in a child care setting. Staff health directly effects the health of children and their families.  Sarah talks with us about ways we can build a healthy lifestyle and also keep germs at bay in the workplace and keep those germs from spreading to families.

Inclusion Matters hosts a conversation with Faith Kidder, a Child Health Consultant from the Child and Teen Checkups (C&TC) Team at  the Minnesota Department of Health.  Faith leads us through a discussion about the importance of early screening for young children and the ways that Minnesota supports this process through many resources like Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT), a federal program to ensure the children who are eligible for Medical assistance receive appropriate timely preventive well child health care.

Our guest, Sarah Hawley, RN, BSN, PHN, shares the most recent updates to the precautions and expectations that child care settings need in place related to the current Covid status.  This episode covers an overview of the CDC’s CURRENT Operational Guidance to Support In-person Learning.