Resources: Caregivers
The Basics
- Understand your role in protecting your children's health
Refer to this University of Utah guide on how to protect kids from wildfire smoke and explore these reminders for preventing hot car deaths.
- Help your kids understand how to stay safe and healthy in a changing environment
Ready Kids provides tools to help children and families prepare for environmental disasters. Similarly, NWS offers resources to help kids understand heat safety.
Additional Resources
Safeguarding Children's Health
Pediatric Heatstroke Prevention Toolkit
Communication materials and tips for parents, caregivers, schools, and traffic safety advocates to prevent hot car deaths.
Overview of how to prepare your family for emergencies, with specific information for families with babies and pregnant individuals.
Expecting Mothers
Review this article on how air pollution can impact pregnancy and steps you can take to protect yourself and your baby.
EPA list of "do's" and "don'ts" for handling heat when pregnant.
Resources for Kids
Talking to Kids About Environmental Change
Use the Utah Natural History Museum's guidebook and visuals to help explain to your children the changes we are seeing in our environment.
