Resources

Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact. These briefs synthesize the recent work of the ECHE Landscape Project and highlight the themes and findings that emerged across the project activities.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children throughout the country have missed routine vaccinations. Vaccination is one of the best ways parents can protect infants, children, and teens from serious, highly contagious diseases, including measles, whooping cough and polio. During National Immunization Week, use these infographics to raise awareness about missed vaccinations and educate families on the importance of timely infant and child vaccinations. 

Pediatricians, family physicians, and other health care providers can use these documents during conversations with families to address myths and facts about safe infant sleep and breastfeeding.

April 18-24 is National Pediatric Transplant Week - a week for recognizing the impact that pediatric transplants have on thousands of children and families across the country. We’ve put together an online collection of social media posts and graphics to raise awareness about life-saving transplants and the thousands of children waiting for one. Make sure to tag @NICHQ so we can like and share your post!

In recognition of National Minority Health Month, we’re sharing a social media toolkit and infographic to raise awareness about racial and ethnic disparities and the need to achieve health equity. Download these resources to use on your own social channels and make sure to tag @NICHQ so we can like and share your post.

Access our online collection of social media posts and graphics that promote evidence-based safe-sleep practices and raise awareness about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and sleep-related deaths. 

These on-line modules, with extensive input from over 70 national organizations, are designed to help shift the approaches we have often used in promoting safe sleep and breastfeeding and to pull them together since they are all part of caring for a new baby.

In this packet, we’re outlining the best strategies to support emotional development for participating practices so that pediatric providers across the country can benefit from their learnings.

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month, we’ve put together a collection of social media posts and graphics that can be used to raise awareness about the importance and benefits of breast milk, as well as empower and support all mothers to achieve their breastfeeding goals. Download the toolkit to use on your own social channels and make sure to tag @NICHQ so we can like and share your post. 

Millions of babies across the country attend child-care, which makes child-care providers invaluable allies for championing infant safe sleep: Child-care providers can make sure that all babies in their care sleep in a safe environment and they can help share guidelines and recommended practices with the families they serve. These two resources can help empower child-care providers as safe sleep champions.