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Caring for Our Children:
National Health and Safety
Performance Standards;
Guidelines for Early Care and
Education Programs, 3rd Edition (CFOC3)



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Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards, Third Edition is available in three formats: Full PDF - Now available with the current changes; grayscale or color PDF by Chapter - Now available with the current changes; smaller file sizes HTML Version - Now available with the current changes These online PDF and HTML formats of Caring for our Children, Third Edition, (CFOC3) are updated to reflect changes/additions since the second printing of CFOC3 in August 2011. (Each is updated as of .) PDFs can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader Get Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Major Change in Caring for Our Children, 3rd Edition (CFOC3):


• Standard 3.1.4.1: Safe Sleep Practices and SIDS/Suffocation Risk Reduction (p. 96 in hard copy)
  
  Change: The use of blankets is no longer recommended. (This is addressed in the COMMENTS section of the standard, under "Use of Blankets" on page 98). (updated December 2011)



• CFOC3 Spinoff: Safe Sleep Practices and SIDS/Suffocation Risk Reduction
  
  
• CFOC3 Spinoff: Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs
  
  
• Tips on Accessing Caring for Our Children


• Additions and Significant Changes in the 3rd Edition of Caring for Our Children since the 2nd Edition (2002)


• Suggested Citation for Caring for Our Children:
  
  American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association, National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. 2011. Caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards; Guidelines for early care and education programs. 3rd edition. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; Washington, DC: American Public Health Association. Also available at http://nrckids.org.
  
  

Print copies are available from two organizations for $55