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Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education
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Choose Safe Places for Early Care and Education
Set It Up Safe
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CSPECE Guidance Manual
Foreword
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Statement of Problem, Burden, and Manual Overview
Manual Overview: What It Covers and How to Use It
Taking Action
Cross-Sector Relationship Building
Chapter 2: Background
Susceptible Populations
Environmental Hazards in the ECE Setting
Licensing Requirements
Differences Between Schools and ECE Siting
ATSDR’s Choose Safe Places for ECE
Chapter 3: What Does Safe Siting Include?
Former Uses of the Site
Migration of Harmful Substances
Naturally Occurring Contamination
Access to Safe Drinking Water
Issues Not Directly Addressed in this Definition
Home-Based Child Care
Other Licensed Facilities Where Children Are Located
Chapter 4: Elements of Ensuring Sites Are Safer
Former Use and Nearby Sites
Case Studies
Naturally Occurring Contamination
Actions
Partners and Stakeholders
Implementation Approaches – Policy Changes
Regulatory Program Changes
Access to Safe Drinking Water
Actions
Notes on Operating a Private Water System
Policy and Regulatory Changes
Case Study
Chapter 5: How to Build a Program – Models for a Safe ECE Siting Program
Finding Potentially Problematic ECE Programs and Locations
Inspection
Geographic Analysis-Based
Local Zoning/Permitting
Siting Criteria
ECE Program Certification
Follow-up on Potentially Problematic ECE Programs and Locations
Education, Outreach, and Awareness
Non-Regulatory Model — Connecticut
SAFER Program Approaches
Training and Outreach
Connecticut’s Program Benefits, Program Improvement, and Lessons Learned
A SAFER Program Success Story
Regulatory Models — New Jersey and New York
Chapter 6: Safer ECE Program Siting Program Tools
Identifying and Training Partners and Stakeholders
Training Partners and Stakeholders
ECE program Licensing Boards, and Owners or Operators of ECE Programs
Risk Communication
Geographic Information System
References
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Safer Child Care Siting Program Forms
Property History Questions for Child Care Center and Group Care Home Applicants
Example Connecticut Private Well Testing Letter
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Environmental Hazards Primary Contacts
Appendix C: ATSDR Risk Communication Forms
Appendix D: The Pennsylvania Geographic Information System (GIS) Program
Appendix E: Estimating Potential Exposures for ECE programs
Appendix F. Activities of Concern with Former or Adjacent Uses to a Site
Appendix B: Safer Child Care Siting Program Forms
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