- School Health
- Healthy Families
- Immunization Services
- Nurse-Family Partnership
- Health Works
- Women Infant & Children Supplement Nutrition Services (WIC)
- Vision & Hearing Screening
- Family Case Management
- Car Seat Program
School Health
The School Health Program provides consultation and education to schools, preschools, day cares, parents and related professionals in the areas of disease prevention and health promotion. The Program also provides Vision and Hearing Screenings for preschool through school age children. Tobacco prevention, education and control programs are also provided.
School and Preschool Health Consultation
The School and Preschool Health Consultation Program provide education and public health nursing consultation and inspection to child care facilities that utilize health department services. Health consultation and advice is given to students and staff at preschools, public schools, private schools and colleges. Community partnerships are engendered to promote child health within DuPage.
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The Child Care - Nurse Consultant Program
The Child Care - Nurse Consultant program promotes physical and emotional health and safety of children through consultations with child care providers and parents. Health care education is made available for child care providers, parents and children through the program. Healthy child development as well as disease and injury prevention are priority areas of this program. Services are provided through advocacy, policy development and community collaboration for the development of increased access to services. This service is available to all child care providers in DuPage County through a contractual arrangement with the department.
Through the Child Care - Nurse Consultant Program CHS nurses are able to give individualized consultation to parents and child care providers on issues that are important to child health. These issues include developing policies for child care providers that will increase the safety of the children in their care. Hand washing, communicable disease prevention, results of developmental questionnaires and technical assistance with immunization records are discussed and assistance is provided. Nurses are able to supply parents and child care providers with referrals to community resources when needed. Nurses will also work with special needs children to help them find quality child care.