HEALTH AND SAFETY SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING



Minutes for May 20, 2016 Recorder: Nicole DeFrank _

Present: Nicole DeFrank, Danette Glassy, Shanna Hanft-Rife, Jennifer Helseth, Claudia Hume, Suzanne Kohaya, Katy Levenhagen, Cathe Paul, Nancy Tarara, Karen Weidert, Leslie Carroll, Alba Suarez, Mina Smith (Tacoma), Angela Benedict, Carleen Wolgamott, Danielle Thompson, Elizabeth Mull, Tanya Baker, Sheila McMann, Lavar Robinson (student nurse), Rebecca , Sue White, Naomi George, Candice Spivey, Fae Jackson (Vancouver), Mallory Kost, Rachel Nielsen

|TOPIC |DISCUSSION |ACTION / DECISION |

|Welcome and Introductions |Introductions | |

| |Review agenda and minutes | |

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|CSHEL Business |Cathe Paul is coordinating CSHEL meetings, continuing to do infant room visits and health, safety and nutrition portion of 30 hours | |

| |basics for immigrants and refugees. | |

| | |Eastern WA group can email their |

| |Danette Glassy – has several books and items available to the group– Oral health chart, Model Health Policies, Managing Chronic |mailing address to receive books – |

| |Health Care Needs in Child Care, Managing infectious Diseases in Child Cares and Schools |Suzanne has some money available to |

| |Thank you Danette! |send books |

|Member/Agency Updates |Leslie Carroll (DOH), Leslie is the supervisor for Healthy Starts and Transitions, replacing Lowest Jefferson. | |

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| |Mallory Kost (DEL) recently started with DEL as a outreach specialist for professional development | |

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| |Abla Suarez (Snohomish Health District) has restarted the Child Care Health Program | |

| |Started the Snohomish Infant Nurse Consultant Network – nurses and licensors working in Snohomish County share resources and meet 2x | |

| |(maybe 3x) a year |Updates to HFMD parent letters and fact|

| |Changes from CDC about Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease exclusion – Danette advised not following these exact changes yet because it may |sheets – hold off on incorporating |

| |not be reasonable to keep a child out of care for 5 days for HFMD when it will not reduce the spread of the illness much (no evidence|these new recommendations until the CDC|

| |to support this). Updated parent letter is to be posted to the SHD website in June. |guidelines are reviewed by AAP |

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| |Sheila McMann (private Nurse) currently working with ESIT program at Northwest Center in Seattle. Interested in providing private | |

| |infant nurse consultation to child care centers. | |

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| |Sue White (Seattle King County Public Health CCHP) – Currently a team of 3.5 nurses in the field, visiting City of Seattle centers | |

| |and some private centers in the county. | |

| |City of Seattle recently passed a new property tax to support early education and early interventions – home visiting, child care | |

| |health consultation, NFP, PCHP. Seattle city council is now determining how to spend that money. | |

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| |Nicole DeFrank (nurse consultant) working mostly in the Seattle and Bellevue areas | |

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| |Naomi George (nurse consultant) working in south Seattle, Redmond, and Pierce County. | |

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| |Jennifer Helseth (Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start) – New funding for 6 hour days will expand opportunities for families and private| |

| |child care centers | |

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| |Nancy Terrara (nurse consultant) – working with infant rooms and ECEAP | |

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| |Tanya Baker – private nurse consultant in the Tacoma area | |

|Department of Early Learning Update | | |

| |In process of writing the first draft of DEL recommendations for the upcoming WA state budget. Considering adding several health |Access DEL updates at |

|Update from Greg Williamson -- – |features. Possibilities: |

|Assistant Director for Partnerships |Funding for prenatal to three services |unications/#updates |

|& Collaborations |Health Office/Program at DEL to work with local staff to manage Healthiest Next Generation projects and other health issues. | |

| |Currently, all policy issues about health/safety go through Adrienne Dorf. Greg is proposing team of health professionals that would| |

| |be established over 6 years to oversee health projects/policies. From CSHEL, |Email Greg with thoughts/guidance on a |

| |Expanding the current Infan/Toddler consultation |DEL health policy team/office |

| |Expansion of developmental screenings |(greg.williamson@del.) |

| |Health equities and early learning – working on proposals to partner with DOH | |

| |Greg wants to know what would be the essential qualities in this proposed system? Email Greg at Greg.williamson@del. | |

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| | |Send proposal to Greg about funding a |

| | |CSHEL position, including researching |

| | |who is working (private and public) as |

| | |a child care health consultant. |

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|Infant Sleep |Monica’s presentation was about how to support teachers in infant classrooms around sleep problems and sleep issues. Infant nurse | |

| |consultants can: | |

|Presentation by: |Teach infant teachers about cues (engagement, sleep, eating, etc.) and co-regulation of biological processes |See for more information |

| |Teach infant teachers about sleep cycles in infancy | |

|Monica Oxford, Ph.D. |Support teachers in creating safe and nurturing sleep routines, initiated when baby sends cues that she is tired (“The sleep gate is |Email questions for Monica at |

|Research Professor in the Department|open”), that help the infant fall asleep (co-regulation). These routines must be consistent so that the baby becomes habituated to |MLOxford@uw.edu |

|of Family & Child Nursing and the |the new sleep environment. | |

|Executive Director of NCAST |Goal: capitalize on natural biorhythms and bring the distress down so that they can become drowsy and fall asleep naturally (versus | |

| |crying to the point of exhaustion) | |

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| |Several NCAST materials are available for purchase on the NCAST website (): | |

| |Beginning Rhythms (book) | |

| |How to Promote Good Sleep Habits (brochure) | |

| |State Modulation (brochure) | |

| |Infant Cues (brochure and cards) | |

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| |Monica is presenting at the WAEYC conference in Everett on October 27th. This would be a great training for infant teachers. | |

|Next Meeting |Next scheduled CSHEL meeting will be Friday September 16th 9am at PSESD, Renton. | |

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