The Newborn Visit: Information for Early Head Start Staff
Use this tip sheet to understand the purpose, timing, and goals of the newborn visit. Early Head Start staff will also find strategies for making the most of the visit.
Infants and Toddlers
Infant/Toddler Teaching Practices
Use the resources on this page to strengthen infant and toddler teaching practices
Supporting Children's Early Brain Development
In this webinar, explore how children’s back-and-forth interactions during everyday experiences and routines build the brain. Also, find out how these interactions can set the stage for a lifetime of learning.
Responsive Caregiving as an Effective Practice to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development
Explore the importance of early relationships in a child’s life and research-based teaching strategies that support them.
Healthy Home Visiting: Tummy Time Podcast
Listen to this podcast for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
Tummy Time and Free Play for Infants
Tummy Time is a simple position with enormous benefits! Home visitors have a unique opportunity to partner with families and help them understand the importance of tummy time and how to add it to their routine.
Research and Reports About Collaborations Between Head Start and Child Care
Read findings, analyses, assessments, and reports about the benefits of successful collaborations between Head Start programs, and child care providers.
Tips for Keeping Infants and Toddlers Safe: A Developmental Guide for Home Visitors – Toddlers
The toddler years are a time when children are building skills in all areas. They remember what they learn and share it with others. They understand things more deeply, make choices, and engage with others in new ways.
Early Head Start Programs
Early Head Start (EHS) programs serve infants and toddlers under the age of 3, and pregnant women. EHS programs provide intensive comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families.
Tips for Keeping Infants and Toddlers Safe: A Developmental Guide for Home Visitors – Young Infants
Infants depend on their families for food, warmth, and care, and for meeting such basic needs as eating, diapering, sleeping, bonding, and safety. But all babies are unique. Some infants may settle easily and be capable of quickly soothing themselves.