How to help your caregiver with this topic

• Whenever you change contact information, particularly your cell phone number, immediately notify your caregiver in writing (mail or e-mail). This will help ensure that the information gets transferred to your child’s file and mobile emergency contact card.



• Make sure that you provide the caregiver with plenty of diapers, formula, prescribed medication, changes of clothes, etc.



• Give your caregiver a gift of extra emergency supplies: batteries, bottled water, blankets, battery operated radio, canned food, cordless phone with a head set (to free hands), etc.



• Take First Aid and CPR training yourself. You’ll feel more confident knowing how your caregiver would respond in an emergency, and more conscious of potential hazards that you may unwittingly bring into the child care setting.



• Offer to serve as an emergency host home to children whose families cannot reach the facility in the event of an evacuation.



• Offer to laminate the emergency contact information that needs to be posted by every phone.



• Ask to see your caregiver’s emergency response plan.