Child Care Providers
Keeping Kids Safe- A Guide for Safe Food Handling and Sanitation for Child Care Providers (PDF | 266 KB)USDA. FNS. Team Nutrition.
Booklet designed for child care providers as a quick and easy reference for food safety and sanitation.
Child Care Centers Fight Bac! (PDF | 705 KB)USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
Includes a Fight Bac! poster specifically designed for child care centers, as well as food safety games and activities. Also available in Spanish.
Serving Safe Food in Child Care Webinar SeriesNational Food Service Management Institute.
This four-part series of 1-hour Web seminars focused on food safety in child care centers and family day care homes. The series offers a four step process for keeping the foods served to young children in the child care setting safe: clean, separate, cook, and chill.
Child Care Mini PostersNational Food Service Management Institute.
Find food safety mini posters on a number of food safety issues affecting child care centers. All posters can be downloaded or purchased from NFSMI and are available in both English and Spanish.
CARE Connection: Food SafetyNational Food Service Management Institute.
These lessons address safety and sanitation in preparing and serving meals to the children in your care, specifically for the child care center and family day care home.
Food Safety Program for Child Care WorkersNorth Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
Two slide sets and corresponding fact sheets are available to help childcare providers create a safe and healthy environment. The first slide focuses on general environmental issues and the second focuses specifically on food safety issues.
Child Care Tips Poster (PDF | 232 KB)
National Food Service Management Institute.
Colorful poster for use in child care homes and centers, printed in English on one side and Spanish on the other. Topics include hand washing; meat, poultry, and fish safety; cross contamination; grocery shopping; baby food; breast milk; bottle feeding; and diaper changing.
Food Safety Self-Inspection for Child-Care FacilitiesUniversity of Nebraska Cooperation Extension.
Conduct a food-safety self-inspection with the following checklist to help you provide safe food for the children in your care.
Safe Food for Children: Preventing Foodborne Illness in Child Care Centers and Family Child Care Homes (PDF | 272 KB)Washington State University.
This booklet explains how to prevent foodborne illness in a child care facility.