Mission: Improve the health and safety of children participating in child care in Oregon.

"Healthy" describes not only the children’s physical health and safety but also their social, emotional, and developmental well-being. 

Program Goals

• Improve child care environments and child care providers’ health knowledge and practices.
• Develop tools and resources for child care providers that support healthy, safe and nurturing practices.
• Increase interagency collaboration that strengthens child care quality and contributes to a comprehensive early childhood system.

Child Care Health Consultation Program

The Office of Family Health, Healthy Child Care Oregon administered the Child Care Health Consultation (CCHC) Program from March 2003 to July 2010 with partners from the health and mental health systems, and the early care and education system. Health and mental health consultation services were provided for child care providers in Baker, Union, Clackamas, Lincoln and Multnomah counties. 

The CCHC program demonstrated promising results and plans were developed for statewide expansion.  However, the program was discontinued in 2010 due to budgetary cut-backs during the recession.