Free eLearning Training Courses: for Medical Providers and Child Care Programs
Your job is to make sure children get a good head start in life. Our job is to help! Brushing Is Fun, Start By Age 1, the producer of Tooth Talk, has created two, free, one-hour, web-based training courses.
Free Medical Provider Fluoride Varnish Training Course
Into the Mouths of Babes is a web-based training course that teaches medical providers how to apply safe and healthy fluoride varnish on very young children’s teeth. This course awards CME credit. Fluoride Varnish is a safe, painless, effective way to protect baby teeth from tooth decay. Best of all, it’s a quick and easy part of a well-child visit.
Thanks to this free training course for medical offices and clinics, more children will be able to eat, grow, hit developmental milestones, sleep, talk, and smile without the pain of tooth decay. North Carolina is a national leader in teeth health for kids. NC’s fluoride varnish program has been making a difference in children’s oral health since the late 1990s.
To sign up for this course, contact the State of NC Oral Health Section, Emily.Horney@dhhs.nc.gov or call 919-707-5487.
Free Child Care Toothbrushing in Classrooms Training Course
Tooth decay (cavities) is the most common chronic childhood disease. It hurts... and affects a child’s ability to eat, sleep, play, learn, and feel self-confident. Fortunately, it can be prevented. Brushing two times a day with fluoride toothpaste, starting with the first baby tooth, can help!
Toothbrushing is an important part of the child care day. Recent new NC Guidelines on the toothbrushing process for infants/toddlers and preschoolers is the basis of this entertaining, informative, free training course.
This training course features a step-by-step guide for both infant/toddler and preschool classrooms:
- preparing to brush
- brushing
- cleaning up after brushing
The course includes sanitation rules, the correct amount of safe and healthy fluoride toothpaste (by children’s age), tips on positioning, and how to make brushing fun.
Contact the State of NC Oral Health Section for a child care program training class, Emily.Horney@dhhs.nc.gov, call 919-707-5487 , or click to see the course. Credit is awarded in the group training provided by an OHS trainer. The online training is for refresher and education purposes only. Click here to see a flier about the course.
Free Smile Crusader Child Care Training Teaches How to Protect Little Teeth
When it comes to caring for tiny teeth, prevention is the handiest tool in your tool box. That’s because stopping dental problems before they happen is safer and healthier for children. The free Calling All Smile Crusaders training course for child care staff can help. “Child care providers play an integral role in a young child’s oral health,” said Emily Horney, RDH, Early Childhood Oral Health Coordinator for the North Carolina Oral Health Section, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services “Teaching young children and their families about good oral health habits, from the eruption of the very first little tooth, can help establish a lifetime of dental health. This is what our Calling All Smile Crusaders training is all about.”
The free, one-hour, DCDEE-approved training is full of information that will help child care pros protect little teeth. Learners will discover the best evidence-based tools for preventing tooth decay and why toothbrushing in child care is important, as well as safe pacifier use, healthy nutrition habits, and key resources. Best of all, this training, which delivers one contact hour of credit (1 CHC), can be scheduled the way you want it: in person or virtually.
Need to brush up on your oral health skills? Are you ready to become a Smile Crusader? Take the free course. For details or to schedule this important training, contact Emily Horney at emily.horney@dhhs.nc.gov or call (919) 707-5487.
