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MALPH CHILD SAFETY FACT SHEETS:
Information Archives: Valuable Information from past Health Observance Weeks or Months
Baby Safety Month - September
Birth Defects Prevention Month
Child Choking Hazards - Recognize the hazards
Children's Dental Health Month
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
December is Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Head Lice FAQ - Frequently asked questions about head lice
Healthy Beginnings Month
Healthy Vision Month
Immunization Awareness Month
Infant Safe Sleep Month
Lead Poisoning - Is your child safe from lead poisoning?
Meningitis
National Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week: February
National Infant Immunization Week - April
National School Lunch Week
Parenting Awareness - Information on parenting
World Breastfeeding Week - August 1-7
GREAT RESOURCES FOR PARENTS!
- Internet Lingo Dictionary: A Parents' Guide to Codes Used in Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging, Text Messaging, and Blogs. If you have kids on the Internet, you need this!
- 4 C of the Upper Peninsula: 4C of the U.P. is a non-profit organization which receives funding from the Early Childhood Investment Corporation and from grants and contributions. They help parents find licensed childcare and advocate for the highest quality of childcare for parents, employers, and the general public throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
- Great Start: Great Start is Michigan nationally recognized State-wide initiative to foster school readiness and life success for young children.
- Bullies2Buddies.com: Created by Izzy Kalman, a school psychologist and psychotherapist. Bullies2Buddies.com is dedicated to ending the suffering of victims of teasing and bullying throughout the world. The only reliable way to do that is by empowering victims to solve their problem and turn their bullies into buddies.
- NetSmartz 411: A great website devoted to helping parents and guardians protect children who are using computers and surfing the Internet
- Family Communications, the producers of Mister Rodger's Neighborhood, has all kinds of information and materials on all kinds of topics for families.
- Bright Futures: A national health promotion initiative dedicated to the principle that every child deserves to be healthy and that optimal health involves a trusting relationship between the health professional, the child, the family, and the community as partners in health practice.
OTHER HEALTHY WEBSITES FOR KIDS!
American Dental Association
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Listen to Your Buds!
All Kids Count
Bright Futures
Club Drugs
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Healthy Children
Immunization Gateway: Your Vaccine Fact-Finder
Marquette General Hospital
MIChild Information
Michigan Department of Community Health
National Immunization Program
State of Michigan Vital Records and Health Statistics
Tobacco Free Kids
Upper Peninsula Health Care Network
U.S.Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Information and Hotline Directory
Vaccine Safety
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