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What is a Child Care Nurse Health Consultant?

A Child Care Nurse Health Consultant works with child care providers, directors, and/or owners to promote the health and safety of children in the child care setting. These consultants can provide expert guidance and technical assistance on a wide range of health and safety topics.

Child Care Nurse Health Consultants have the training to access appropriate resources to assist child care providers in successfully including children with special health or medical needs.

How Can Child Care Nurse Health Consultants Help Me?

  • Help providers develop strategies for caring for children with special health needs
  • Develop or update health and safety policies for child care providers
  • Provide health education and wellness programs
  • Provide up-to-date information on the latest guidelines, policies and information regarding child health and safety
  • Offer support through telephone consultations or on-site visits
  • Conduct child care staff training
  • Provide Medication Administration training
  • Provide communicable disease information
  • Develop health care plans for children with special needs
  • Provide health and safety education for parents and children

West Virginia has six Child Care Nurse Health Consultants available to assist child care providers across the state.  Each Child Care Resource and Referral Region (CCRR) has a designated Child Care Nurse Health Consultant.  Please locate your Child Care Nurse Health Consultant based on your CCRR region.

Child Care Resource Center Resource and Referral region 
Counties served: Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Tyler, Wetzel

Child Care Nurse Health Consultant
Vacant Position
Cell Phone: (304) 840-2482

Choices Resource and Referral region  
Counties served: Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood

Lisa Galford, MSN, RN-Child Care Nurse Health Consultant
Salem, WV
Cell Phone: (304) 840-8560
Email: lgalford@rvcds.org

Connect Resource and Referral region
Counties served: Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Roane

Candy Morgan, RN - Child Care Nurse Health Consultant
Charleston, WV
Cell Phone: (304) 840-2967
Email: cmorgan@rvcds.org

Link Resource and Referral region
Counties served: Boone, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, Wayne

Child Care Nurse Health Consultant
Brittany Parsons, RN
Huntington, WV
Cell Phone: (304)972-6300
Email: Brittany.parsons@rvcds.org

MountainHeart North Resource and Referral region
Counties served: Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Lewis, Mineral, Morgan, Pendleton, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur

Karen Gilbert - Child Care Nurse Health Consultant
Points, WV
Cell Phone: (304) 840-1933
Email: kgilbert@rvcds.org

MountainHeart South Resource and Referral region
Counties served: Braxton, Fayette, Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, Webster, Wyoming

Kelly Amos, RN
Crawley, WV
Cell Phone: (304)840-2165
Email: kamos@rvcds.org


 

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