The Kid Was Choking. She Knew What to Do.

EEAS-106: Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child · Starts August 9, 2026 at Theoria Technical College

Maya is four, and she is turning blue.

It is 10:15 on a Tuesday, snack time, and the grape she was chewing has lodged sideways in her throat. She is not coughing. She cannot cough. She is gripping the edge of the little table, eyes wide, and looking straight at Ms. Alina, the assistant teacher who has been in the classroom for six months, because Ms. Alina is the closest adult.

Ms. Alina does not freeze. She has practiced this. She sweeps the room with her eyes, calls the lead teacher over to keep the other children calm, gets behind Maya, and delivers the abdominal thrusts she was drilled on last month in her Pediatric CPR and First Aid class. The grape comes out on the third thrust. Maya cries, which is the best sound Ms. Alina has ever heard.

The whole thing takes ninety seconds.

EEAS-106: Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child is the course that produces the Ms. Alinas.

You Leave With the Card

The first thing to know about this course is what you walk out with: an active Pediatric CPR / First Aid / AED certification the Title 22 credential every licensed early childhood worker in California is required to hold, bundled into the term itself. Hybrid delivery (online + in-person hands-on test), verified and uploaded to your student portal before the course closes. If you already have an active card, you upload it. If you don't, we coordinate the class.

When the child stops breathing, the person in the room needs to know what to do. And knowing what to do is a thing that can be taught.

What the Five Weeks Actually Look Like

The course runs five weeks, fully asynchronous online, built around Marotz's Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child one of the standard text used in ECE programs across the country. Here's the shape of it:

• Week 1 — Foundations. You start your 45-hour Supervised Field Experience at an approved site. You schedule your CPR class if you don't already hold an active card. First discussion post goes up.

• Week 2 — Illness and chronic conditions. Recognizing what to send home. Supporting children with asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, severe allergies through Individualized Health Service Plans and emergency protocols.

• Week 3 — Safety and infant nutrition. Indoor and outdoor safety, emergency preparedness, mandated reporter obligations. Breastfeeding, formula, and the introduction of solids.

• Week 4 — Meal planning. Building a real week of meals using MyPlate and the Dietary Guidelines, with substitutions for allergies and cultural preferences.

• Week 5 — Family partnerships and the finish line. Your comprehensive final exam. Your CPR card uploaded. Your SFE forms signed. Your infant feeding guide submitted.

You leave with the CPR credential, the field hours, a portfolio of five applied planning documents, and the confidence to be prepared during emergencies.

Where This Course Sits in the Bigger Picture

EEAS-106 is a core requirement in the Associate of Science in Early Childhood Education and stacks into both the Lead Teacher Certificate and Director Certificate pathways.

Enroll or nominate a member of your team: Student Services · StudentServices@theoriatechnical.com · (760) 487-8436

The Fall 2026 term launches Saturday, August 9, 2026 and runs for five weeks.

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