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Healthy Child Care

  • Keep Child Care Centers Top-Notch

    Ensure child care centers are safe & healthy with the updated Healthy Child Care & Early Learning Facilities Self-Assessment.

    Start the Assessment 

  • Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program

    Grant funding for lead testing and remediation assistance in drinking water at schools and child care facilities.

    Learn More About This Funding

  • A Safer Choice for Child Care Cleaning

    Safer Choice helps purchasers find products that perform and contain ingredients that are safer for kids.

    Search Products that Meet the Safer Choice Standard

  • Fight Childhood Asthma with the Breathe Easies

    This kids asthma-rock band uses sweet tunes to help teach us how to stop asthma triggers at home.

    Sing Along!

Because of their size, stage of development, and behavior, children are at greater risk than adults for adverse health effects caused by exposure to indoor air pollutants. This site presents providers, parents and government agencies with resources to identify and reduce children’s exposure to pollutants that may be present in child care facilities.

For Providers

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  • Environmental Health Topics  for Government Agencies
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For Parents

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  • Environmental Health Topics for Parents

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  • Children's Environmental Health Protection
  • America's Children and the Environment
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  • Eco-Healthy Child Care

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Last updated on April 28, 2025
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