COVID-19 Early Care and Education Collaborative
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic response the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) provided support to establish the COVID-19 Early Care and Education (ECE) Collaborative. Collaborative members worked to identify needs and gaps during the early stages of the COVID-19 response and created tools for engagement and relationship building between ECE facilities and health departments to be carried on in a post-pandemic environment. This project serves as an example of how collaborative partnerships, utilizing Health in All Policies principles, can be rapidly established and implemented in real time to holistically address public health challenges and protect children's health.
Collaborative in Action
The Collaborative developed educational materials, webinars, and trainings on priority topics including safe cleaning, disinfection, food handling, and indoor air quality.
- COVID-19 ECE Collaborative Executive Summary | PDF
- COVID-19 ECE 2-Pager | PDF
- 2021 AEC – Collaborating to Bring COVID-19 Resources to Early Care and Education |
- CEB Day 2021 - Mobilizing to support early care & education during the COVID pandemic |
- APPLETREE Program Resources
Resources for ECE Providers
Indoor Air Quality
- Indoor Air Quality – Health Hazards | PDF
- Improving Indoor Air Quality – Keeping It | PDF
- Indoor Air Quality – Practices, Risks, and Pollutants | PDF
- Indoor Air Quality Assessment Form | PDF
- Indoor Air Quality Checklist |
- Indoor Air Quality in Early Care and Education Facilities |
- COVID-19: Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Child Care Facilities | |
- Ventilation in ECE Settings |
- Healthy Housing 101: Ventilation |
- Improving Indoor Air Quality during COVID-19 Infographic |
Cleaning & Disinfecting
- Hand Sanitizer Fact Sheet - Families |
- Safer Disinfectants | | | | | | | | |
- Healthy Homes Guide to Cleaning and Disinfection | |
- Safer Cleaning and Disinfecting in Child Care Facilities: COVID-19 (Part I - General Guidance) | |
- Safer Disinfection in Child Care Facilities: COVID-19 (Part 2) | |
- Clean Away COVID - Cleaning & Disinfection | |
- Safer Disinfectant Use |
- Healthy Homes Guide to Cleaning and Disinfection: Webinars | |
- Safer Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting in ECE settings |
- Choosing and Using Disinfection Products |
- List N Search By EPA Registration Number |
- List N Search by Active Ingredient |
- Sanitize Food Prep Areas | |
- Usage of Microfiber Cleaning Cloths | |
- Cleaning & Sanitizing Toys Infographic |
- Diaper Changing Best Practices Infographic |
- Food Prep & Service Infographic |
- Safer Disinfectants Comic Strip - COVID focus | | | | | | | | |
- Safe Disinfectants Comic Strip - non-COVID focus |
- Safer Disinfectant Use Infographic | | | | | | | | |
- Green Cleaning Early Child Care Resource |
COVID-19
- ECE COVID-19 Assessment Form |
- ECE COVID-19 Checklist |
- COVID-19 & Children's Environmental Health |
- Keep It All Clean To Clean Away COVID | |
- What To Do If COVID Is In Your Home | |
- Clean Away COVID Thoroughly and Often | |
- Clean Away COVID with Clean Hands | |
- Clean Away COVID with the Right Tools | |
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Facility |
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Home |
- Ventilation in Buildings |
- Ventilation in Schools and Childcare Programs |
- School, Child Care, and Colleges | COVID-19 |
- Clean Away COVID Toolkit |
- Science Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Surface (Fomite) Transmission for Indoor Community Environments |
- Surface Transmission Guidance for Fully Vaccinated |
- COVID-19 Social Media Marketing |
Facilities
- School Ventilation |
- 10 Valuable Healthy Homes Resources for Home-Based Child Care Providers |
- How to Choose a Portable Air Cleaner |
- Choose Safe Places | Webpage
The provided funding for this project.