Healthy Child Care Environments

Family Resiliency Center: A Research and Policy Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental contaminants, and three-quarters of American children under age five spend at least 20 hours per week at an out-of-home child care facility. In this podcast, Dr. Barbara Fiese speaks about ways to reduce harmful exposures and create healthy environments in child care settings. Podcast is courtesy of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)