As a child care provider, you play a critical role in the lives of the children in your care. An important part of that role can be protecting children from secondhand smoke. You can ensure them a smoke-free environment while in your care and can introduce information and actions which can be taken at home to reduce children’s exposure. Creating and encouraging a smoke-free environment for children contributes to their safe and healthy development and overall well-being.

Parents daily look to you as a source of information, guidance, and support; in short, as a partner in helping to raise their children through the first, early years of life. It is because of that unique relationship that we want to partner with you as well, to inform parents and, by doing so, to help them protect their children’s health.

The ABCs of Secondhand Smoke Training Module for Child Care Providers has been developed to serve as a resource for reducing children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. Reducing children’s exposure to secondhand smoke means changing the behavior of adults.

The training module is designed to meet three major objectives:

1. To provide child care providers with factual information that can be used to educate parents about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
2. To encourage a “No Smoking Policy” in air shared by children at any time in any place.
3. To teach children about the hazards of secondhand smoke and ways they can ask adults not to smoke in their presence.

For information on the Smoke-Free Home Pledge, visit EPA's Web site at http://www.epa.gov/smokefree

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