Child Health & Safety

Immunizations

The DHS Wisconsin Immunization Registry offers a public link so that parents may access their children’s immunizations records. Through the following link, health professionals may also access materials (in several languages), as well as trainings to support their immunization programs and data collection efforts. The WIR can also be accessed in English, Spanish, or Hmong from this site.

• Through these Centers for Disease Control and Prevention links, you can download Easy-To-Read Immunization Schedules for Infants and Children, and for Teens in both English and Spanish. There is also a chart for Adults. On the same page, there’s a downloadable tracking chart—Immunizations and Developmental Milestones for Your Child from Birth Through 6 Years Old (PDF).
• The Immunization Action Coalition offers vaccine information for families, coalitions, and health professionals.

Infant and Early Childhood Safety and Injury Prevention

• Children’s Safety Network offers information on a wide variety of child injury prevention topics, with links to further resources.
• Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin provides Safe Sleep information in English and Spanish.
• Safe Kids Wisconsin has information on child injury prevention programs and events, including statewide car seat check dates and resources such as the Safe Sleep Cribs for Kids.
• Car Seats: Information for Families
• NHTSA “Car Seats and Booster Seats” helps parents select seats based on age/size and compares ease-of-use ratings.
• Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin “Car Seat Safety” webpage includes clinics, laws, best practices, and fact sheets in English and Spanish.

Dental

• Pediatric Dentistry: Common Treatment Options – The most common pediatric dental services include exams, cavity fillings, extractions, preventive and restorative treatments.

Hearing and Vision

• “The Importance of Stimulating a Child’s Vision” (Urban Child Institute research-to-policy article)
• “Vision Development in Preschool and School-aged Children” (American Academy of Ophthalmology)
• “Prevent Blindness Wisconsin” fact sheets on screening and protecting children’s vision
• “Seeing the Importance of Vision Development” (Urban Child Institute)
• “Baby’s Vision Development: What to Expect the First Year” (AAO)

Lead Prevention

• Wisconsin DHS on childhood lead poisoning & lead-safe housing
• EPA resources:
  • Learn about Lead
  • Protect Your Family
  • Daycare/Classroom materials
  • Spanish “plomo” pages
    

Safe Sleep

• Safe Sleep for Babies (video + article on updated AAP SIDS recommendations)
• AAP Task Force on SIDS – What’s New in 2016 (Dr. Rachel Moon)
• Study: Parents not following safe sleep advice (AAP News, Aug 15, 2016)
• AAP Child Death Review & Prevention – Safe Sleep
• Safe to Sleep campaign (NICHD)
• March of Dimes Safe Sleep for your Baby
• AAP Policy Explained: How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe
• Your New Baby Safe at Home (WebMD slideshow)
• Cribs for Kids national initiative to provide safe portable cribs
• Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin tools, training modules, materials in multiple languages

Online Training

• Marks that Matter, Sentinel Injuries, and Other Opportunities for Child Abuse Prevention – A 25-minute module on sentinel injuries: why they matter, who’s at risk, and what to do. Viewable on desktop or mobile.