Encyclopedia of Promising Practices and Tools
DESCRIPTIONS OF HEALTHY KIDS HEALTHY FUTURE PROMISING PRACTICES AND TOOLS
PRACTICES:
NETWORK FOR A HEALTY CALIFORNIA
www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/CPNS/Pages/default.aspx
The Network represents a statewide movement of local, state and national partners collectively working toward improving the health status of low-income Californians through increased fruit and vegetable consumption and daily physical activity. Multiple venues are used to facilitate behavior change in the homes, schools, worksites, and communities of low-income Californians to create environments that support fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity.
CONTRA COSTA CHILD CARE COUNCIL
http://www.cocokids.org/about-us/
The Contra Costa Child Care Council is a private, nonprofit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Our mission is to provide leadership to promote and advance quality care and early education.
For more than 30 years, the Child Care Council has been in the business of ensuring that Contra Costa’s children achieve their full potential. As the only child care resource and referral agency serving all of Contra Costa, we are at the center of the child care delivery system. Through a wide range of services and programs, we partner with parents, child care providers, businesses, and the community to promote quality care and early education so that children are ready for school and parents can work.
The Contra Costa Child Care Council provides free or low cost programs and services designed to support and empower parents and child care providers so that children, families and communities benefit. Through community-based offices in Richmond, Concord, Antioch and Brentwood, and our main office in Concord, the Child Care Council provides services, such as:
- Free child care referrals
- Parent education and resources to help families make the best child care choices
- Financial assistance to low-income working families to make quality child care services more accessible
- Child health, nutrition and safety education
- Child care provider training and development to help them build sustainable businesses and to provide quality, healthy, and age-appropriate care
- Public education and advocacy
NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY IN CHILD CARE AND EARLY EDUCATION SETTINGS
The National Resource Center is located at the University of Colorado Denver in Denver, Colorado, and is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA. The NRC’s primary mission is to promote health and safety in out-of-home child care settings throughout the nation.
The standard resource for information concerning this subject is the Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, Second Edition published in January 2002. The guidelines were developed through the collaborative efforts of the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The entire text of this publication is available on this website.
Each state manages licensure of child care settings in different ways. The licensure regulations from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are also available on this Website. The NRC updates this database as changes are made.
COLORADO EARLY CHILDHOOD TASK FORCE
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/copan/taskforcefactsheets.html
The Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition Program’s Early Childhood Task Force represents collaborations and partnerships with government, public health, and private organizations throughout the state. Task force members support efforts to prevent and decrease the incidence of obesity in early childhood through nutrition and physical activity interventions.
Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition State Plan 2010, Early Childhood Strategies:
- Raise awareness of the benefits of health eating and developmentally appropriate activity in children birth to age five and their families.
- Provide educational opportunities that will improve parents’ and other caregivers’ abilities to meet recommendations for healthy eating and developmentally appropriate physical activity.
- Provide educational opportunities and resources in nutrition and physical activity for healthcare professionals.
- Promote an environment that encourages healthy eating and active lifestyles as the norm rather than the exception.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
http://www.doe.k12.de.us/infosuites/students_family/earlychildhood/earlycare.shtml
In the spring of 2000, the Delaware legislature authorized the establishment of the Delaware Early Care and Education Office (DECEO). The Delaware Early Childhood Office promotes an interagency approach to the delivery of early care and education services in Delaware as recommended in the Early Success report.
DELAWARE STARS FOR EARLY SUCCESS
http://www.dieec.udel.edu/delaware-stars-overview#
Improving the quality of child care in Delaware is currently a high priority. Delaware Stars for Early Success, Delaware’s early childhood plan, proposes an increased state investment in early childhood. Delaware Stars for Early Success is a voluntary quality rating system for child care facilities that is gaining momentum in the state. A quality rating system shifts the focus of child care from basic care to high quality
early education. Our Formula for a Healthy Lifestyle: 5–2–1–Almost None Nemours is taking a leading role to help people understand the causes and health implications of obesity and the best ways to promote healthier lifestyles among children and families. 5-2-1-Almost None is our formula for a healthy lifestyle. • Eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. • Spend no more than two hours per day in front of a screen (TV, video games, recreational computer time). • Get at least one hour of physical activity per day. • Drink almost no sugary beverages like soda and sports drinks.
In states with quality rating systems, parents and policy makers can assess a child care program according to established standards. A standard in this context is a statement that defines a goal of professional practice. It represents a widely agreed upon, state-of-the art, high quality level of child care. Some 36 states, including Delaware, have developed quality rating systems; standards vary from state to state. Delaware Stars for Early Success is in the second year of a pilot implementation program. The system for rating programs and helping providers to make improvements is currently being tested. New quality criteria, such as standards promoting children’s health, can being incorporated at this point. Policy makers should take this opportunity to continue the state’s recent progress in promoting children’s health by strengthening the requirements for quality in child care programs.
TEAM NUTRITION GRANT FROM USDA
http://www.fns.usda.gov/TN/grants.html
Team Nutrition (TN) Training Grants for Healthy School Meals have been identified in USDA’s National Strategic Plan for Training and Technical Assistance as one of the anchor delivery systems for supporting the implementation of USDA’s nutrition requirements and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in school meals. TN Training Grants offer funding to State agencies to establish or enhance sustainable infrastructures for implementing TN.
STATE HEAD START COLLABORATION OFFICE
http://www.ilheadstart.org/collaboffice.html
The Head Start State Collaboration Office is a federal-state partnership, with funding provided by the US DHHS – Head Start Bureau and non-federal share match provided by the Illinois Department of Human Services. The purpose of the Head Start State Collaboration Office is to support and encourage collaboration with Head Start and various other stakeholders at the state and local levels in several priority areas: Education & Child Care, Health, Community Service Activities, Family Literacy, Services to the homeless, Disabilities and Welfare.
The Head Start State Collaboration Director and Assistant Director work to educate the larger community about Head Start, provide information & ideas to support partnerships, and conduct & participate in statewide planning in all the priority areas to move Illinois toward an integrated system of services for low-income children & families.
BRINGING I AM MOVING, I AM LEARNING BEYOND HEAD START
I AmMoving, I Am Learning introduces multidisciplinary teams from local Head Start programs to the science of obesity prevention, and arms them with state-of-the-art resources and best practices for addressing the growing child obesity epidemic in anintentional and purposeful manner. Participating Head Start staff attend a two and a half day intensive training program, with follow-up support provided by the Region III Head Start Technical Assistance System.
I AmMoving, I Am Learning reinforces for grantees the importance of the mind-body connection and the relationship between physical fitness and early learning. The project provides grantees with strategies and resources for infusing quality physical movement and healthy nutrition choices within their familiar curriculum approaches and daily classroom routines. The research-based project is designed to support implementation of the Head Start Performance Standards.
MA has introduced training, including backpacks with books, pedometers, etc. for children in early care and education settings outside of Head Start.
HEALTHY KIDS HEALTHY MICHIGAN
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/HKHM_Fact_Sheet_9_21_09_297056_7.pdf
In 2007, Governor Granholm received a one-year grant award from the National Governors Association through the Healthy Kids, Healthy America program. This program was designed to provide the nation’s governors with the opportunity and means to make progress in addressing childhood obesity in schools and communities in their state. Governor Granholm’s project, Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan, worked with executive-level decision-makers from government, public and private sectors, school districts, health care and non-profit organizations to create a multi-year strategic policy agenda to reduce childhood obesity in Michigan. Over the year-long Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan project, more than 100 organizations collaborated to explore and prioritize policy options to confront childhood obesity. A five-year strategic plan has been developed and a set of first-year priorities identified.
MICHIGAN HEAD START ASSOCIATION
http://www.mhsa.ws/aboutus.asp
The Michigan Head Start Association was founded in 1988 and works to promote equal opportunities for all Head Start children, families and programs to succeed. We accomplish this mission through legislative advocacy, policy and early childhood research, acting as a vehicle for communication among Michigan Head Start programs and among state agencies, and by providing professional development opportunities for Head Start programs and professionals committed to early childhood.
We also partner with other state-level organizations with similar goals, including Michigan Community Action Agency Association, Michigan 4C Association, the Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children, Head Start – State Collaboration Office, Michigan League for Human Services, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Michigan, Association for Child Development and Michigan’s Children, to name a few.
MHSA staff work continuously to educate Michigan’s legislators, departments and key decision makers regarding the importance of the Head Start community and programs. Our Staff participate in many state-level task forces and committees advocating for children and their families and making sure that the needs of Head Start are represented. Some of these committees include the Michigan Coalition for Children and Families, the Michigan Child Care Task Force, Governor’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan Advisory Committee, MAISA Early Childhood Ad-hoc, and several of the ECIC Board External Advisory Committees.
MHSA works continuously to improve and assist programs in Michigan by providing quality training sessions to Head Start staff and parents, and have numerous educational conferences on different topics in response to Federal and State mandates and member needs. As a membership organization, we are committed to meeting the needs of our members.
EARLY EDUCATION INVESTMENT CORPERATION
http://www.greatstartforkids.org/
Each year too many Michigan children – as many as one in three, according to a recent survey – enter kindergarten not ready to learn. Some have previously unidentified health problems. Some have social or emotional problems. Some have developmental or learning problems.For these children, who all too often are from low income and/or minority families, not being ready for school becomes a life-long sentence of poor academic achievement, diminished expectations and limited opportunity.
Thankfully, the negative impact of the majority of these health, developmental, and learning difficulties can be minimized or even eliminated with early identification and intervention. While state programs exist to address health, social-emotional, developmental and learning concerns of young children and their parents – local availability, access, capacity and quality varies tremendously.
Each state agency approaches financing, policy development, program development and accountability differently. Past efforts to coordinate state government early childhood programs and build partnerships with the private sector have been difficult to sustain and have achieved limited success. Local communities have been somewhat more successful, particularly in rural areas with limited populations and few options for services.
The general public is becoming increasingly aware of the unprecedented growth and development that occurs during the first five years of life, and the importance of those years to future school success, but public will to support a tax increase, for example, to increase early childhood investment, remains untested.
Michigan has been fortunate over the past several years to have a cadre of state leaders, including the business and foundation communities, at the table with an unwavering determination to improve the school readiness of our youngest citizens. With the enormous economic challenges facing our state, their determination to keep our state’s youngest learners at the forefront of Michigan’s priorities.
Great Start and the Early Childhood Investment Corporation were created for just such a purpose. Only a few years old, Great Start is off to a great start indeed. All across Michigan, communities are hard at work on ensuring that children arrive at the schoolhouse door ready. It only makes sense. The cost of unreadiness is significant. Children who start behind, stay behind. Children who are held back in school are more likely to drop out long-term. Children who dropout are at significant risk of becoming victims of, or instigators of, criminal behavior. Chronic physical and mental health issues that are left untreated often result in higher health care and/or special education costs. And on and on.
The research is clear: Getting kids off to a great start is just common sense. It’s both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. That’s why a Great Michigan needs Great Start.
LICENSING AND HIGHER NUTRITION STANDARDS IN MILITARY
http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r40_25.pdf
All of the Army’s Child Development Centers are DOD certified (the military equivalent of state licensing). These strong standards (encompassing staff training, curriculum, health, safety and nutrition requirements) provided an infrastructure that made it possible for 100 percent of eligible Army Child Development Centers to become nationally accredited by an external professional organization. (This compares to private sector child care centers where less than 10 percent are nationally accredited).
The Army has made a commitment in the Army Family Covenant to continue to provide excellence in our child care program. Our challenge is to ensure as new child development centers are constructed and opened, they too will have the comprehensive operational standards and strong oversight to maintain our families’ expectation of high quality.
EDUCATE PARENTS PARTNERSHIP
The Minnesota Parent Center is a unique statewide project designed to help families and schools build stronger ties to benefit students.
The Minnesota Parent Center provides:
- free research-based training for Title I schools
- individual assistance
- information handouts
We help parents be strong partners in their children’s education and encourage community involvement to help all children succeed at school. We can answer questions and help you solve school-related problems.
INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT NUTRITION AND PHYISCAL ACTIVITY IN CHILD CARE CENTERS
When we come together to face the biggest challenges for children and their families, we create more and longer-lasting change. We can spend generations getting there one child at a time or, by putting state policy on the side of North Carolina’s children, we can get there much sooner.
Action for Children is a statewide, independent, non-partisan, non-profit child advocacy organization, dedicated to educating and engaging all people across the state to ensure that our children are healthy, safe, well-educated and have every opportunity for success. We provide:
- Applied Research & Data: Action for Children continuously analyzes the current data and research on child well-being and presents it in user-friendly format for policymakers, advocates and the general public.
- Communications & Media Advocacy: Action for Children works with the media to educate North Carolinians about how children in our state are faring and how we can improve their lives.
- Outreach: Action for Children provides technical assistance to communities statewide on how to use data and research to improve conditions for children and young people.
- Convening/Facilitating: Action for Children brings together partner organizations to pool knowledge and coordinate public policy approaches.
- Education: Action for Children informs law makers and community advocates of public policies and programs that benefit children and young people.
- Organizing: Action for Children stimulates local and state-level action by serving as a catalyst and source of information.
- Technology: Action for Children uses the latest technology to keep lawmakers, community advocates and the general public fully up-to-date on issues affecting children.
ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Association of State and Territorial Public Health provides support and resources to states for the development of policies that support healthy eating and active living.
SOUTH CAROLINA HEAD START COLLABORATION OFFICE
http://sc-headstart.org/SCSHSA.html
South Carolina State Head Start Association (SCSHSA), founded in the late 1960s, is a private, professional, non-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to meeting the needs of the Head Start children and their families in South Carolina. The association provides leadership, support and advocacy for the needs of children, families, and staff in South Carolina. The organization serves as the catalyst for Head Start programs across the state and assists Head Start programs in meeting federal and state mandates in a cohesive and coordinated effort. South Carolina State Head Start Association’s membership is comprised of Head Start Directors, program staff, Community Action Program Directors, parents, and friends (community constituents.) The association serves as a state forum through which Head Start staff, parents, friends and directors receive and act upon information to be used for professional, statistical and technical assistance concerning child and family development. The organization’s funding is basically through contributions, supplemental grants, agency and individual membership dues, and conferences. Membership dues represent one of the major source of revenues for the association.
SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES DIVISION OF CHILD CARE SERVICES CHILD CARE DEVELOPMENT FUND
Through this fund, the Division of Child Care Services provides assistance to low income families who need help with child care costs while parents work or attend school. They also provide oversight, technical assistance and support in promoting safe, healthy and caring environments for children through licensing, registration and quality improvement activities. The availability of quality child care is not only important for maintaining a strong workforce; it is vital for the growth and development of healthy children.
“ACTION FOR HEALTHY KIDS”
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
Action for Healthy Kids is the nation’s leading nonprofit and largest volunteer network fighting childhood obesity and undernourishment by working with schools to improve nutrition and physical activity to help our kids learn to eat right, be active every day and be ready to learn. We provide expertise, volunteers, programs and resources nationwide through a unique collaboration of more than 11,000 members – professionals, parents, educators, community volunteers, business leaders and students – in partnership with professional associations, government agencies and corporations.
EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
http://www.collaboratingpartners.com/
The Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners listserv is designed to facilitate interactive, electronic communication between the agencies, associations, and individuals providing services to Wisconsin’s young children (birth to age 
and their families. The focus of this listserv is on state, community, and interagency efforts to improve service delivery approaches for young children and their families. The listserv will provide a mechanism to share experiences, examples, ad resources related to early childhood collaboration, program blending, and system improvement.
QUALITY RATING SYSTEM FOR CHILD CARE- REPORT OF THE QUALITY COUNTS TASK FORCE
http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=1736
The Quality Counts Task Force outlines a five-star rating system based upon two fundamental attributes of quality care and describes how we addressed them in the report:
• National research indicates that quality child care programs, regardless of size, share certain defining characteristics. Quality indicators include director and teacher qualifications, learning environment and curricula, and professional practices. We have included these indicators in our proposed five-star rating system for Wisconsin.
• Every child care program must comply with the Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) child care licensing rules and the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) child care certification rules. With our proposed rating system, a program in regulatory non-compliance could not move beyond one star.
NUTRITION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OBESITY PREVENTION PROGRAM
http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/physicalactivity/pdf_files/obesityreport.pdf
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Program provides statewide leadership to decrease overweight and obesity, increase physical activity and improve nutrition. Located in the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the Program and its partners have developed and are implementing the Wisconsin Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan to accomplish the overall goal of preventing obesity and chronic disease.
TOOLS:
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/1003HEALTHYKIDSPROFILES.PDF
Shaping a Healthier Generation: Healthy Kids, Healthy America State Profiles in Progress
CACHAMPIONSFORCHANGE.NET
http://www.cachampionsforchange.net/en/index.php
Online social marketing campaign geared towards Mom’s. Supports healthy development in children.
CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR CHILDREN C.D. FOR PHYSICIANS
C.D. for physicians supporting technical assistance on speaking to patients about following healthy eating guidelines
ROADMAP TO HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING
Pamphlet created by the Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition Program to help building of comprehensive community based approaches to healthy eating and active living.
FRAC ONLINE BEST PRACTICE RESOURCE CENTER
http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/cacfp.html
The Child Care Wellness Tool Kit: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is for advocates, state child care subsidy, CACFP and licensing agencies, state and local health promotion and obesity prevention initiatives, child care providers, policy makers and other key stakeholders. The tool kit focuses on innovative and effective CACFP best practices and strategies for implementing good nutrition and physical activity policies and standards at the state and local level.
NEMOURS TOOLS (DE)
http://www.nemours.org/department/nhps/five-two-one.html
- Child Care Summary
- 5-2-1-Almost None
- “Policy Matters: Educate New Secretaries re: Policies”
- CD: Planning Healthy Meals for Child Care”
- Child Care Learning Collaborative Tool Kit
- Healthy Habits for Life Curriculum for Early Learning Classrooms (Nemours and Sesame Workshop toolkit)
- Best Practices for Physical Activity Guide
- Best Practices for Healthy Eating Guide
NEMOURS TOOLS (FL)
http://static.nemours.org/www-filebox/nhps/grow-up-healthy/08-annual-summary-booklet.pdf
Annual Summary of Nemours prevention efforts
MASS IN MOTION
http://www.mass.gov/massinmotion/
To address this significant public health problem, Massachusetts launched Mass in Motion in January 2009. Mass in Motion aims to promote wellness and to prevent overweight and obesity in Massachusetts – with a particular focus on the importance of healthy eating and physical activity.
This is a priority area of the HealthyMass Compact, which was announced by Governor Deval Patrick and Secretary JudyAnn Bigby in 2008. Mass in Motion uses a multi-faceted approach.
MINNESTOA EARLY CHILDHOOD SCREENING TOOL
The early childhood years from birth to the start of kindergarten are an important time of rapid learning and growth. Early Childhood Screening is a quick and simple check of how children are doing between the ages of 3 to 4 years. It identifies, at an early stage, possible learning or health concerns so that children can get needed help before starting school. Early Childhood Screening is not a kindergarten entrance test.
Early Childhood Screening or evidence of a comparable screening by a non-school provider (e.g., Head Start, Child & Teen Checkups/EPSDT or a health care provider) is required for entrance in Minnesota’s public schools or within 30 days of enrollment into kindergarten. Early Childhood Screening is offered throughout the year by local districts.
COLOR ME HEALTHY
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/magazine/fall03/color.htm
What do brightly colored posters, picture cards and sing-along songs have to do with children’s health? The developers of a children’s nutrition and physical activity program — Color Me Healthy — are hoping to encourage children to develop healthy lifestyles that will follow them to adulthood.
NAPSACC: NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SELF-ASSESSMENT FOR CHILD CARE
http://www.center-trt.org/downloads/obesity_prevention/interventions/napsacc/NAPSACC_Template.pdf
Intervention strategies targeting the major contributing factors to obesity—breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity—were identified through an examination of evidence reviews and other summary documents related to obesity prevention. This section contains summaries of identified intervention strategies with the goal of providing public health practitioners with easy-to-use information about the best options available for planning effective obesity prevention programs.
Intervention strategy summaries are organized by the targeted contributing factor (breastfeeding, healthy eating, and physical activity) and by setting (coming soon). When you click on one of these factors, a list of strategies specific to the factor will be available to you. Select a strategy of interest to view a summary of the available evidence.
EAT WELL PLAY HARD IN CHILD CARE SETTINGS
http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/prevention/nutrition/cacfp/eat_well_play_hard.htm
This initiative provides nutrition education, obesity prevention and physical activity interventions to pre-school children, their parents and their caregivers. A curriculum was developed by CACFP to support this initiative.
CHILD CARE HEALTH CONSULTANTS
http://www.occrra.org/hcco_consult.htm
Child Care Health Consultants (registered nurses) are available in every county across the state to assist child care providers with general health and safety issues. CCHC’s can provide information to providers from diabetes and asthma to consultation on children’s immunization records and licensing compliance reports. The nurses will not provide recommendations or specific care plans for children with special health care plans. They are able to provide information on how a family can obtain health insurance, if applicable, and how to locate pediatric services. Child Care Nutrition Consultants are available in select areas of the state.
KEYSTONE KIDS GO SUMMARY
Keystone Kids Go! is an initiative in Pennsylvania focused on improving young children’s nutrition and physical activity. The initiative is targeted towards early childhood practitioners from childcare, Head Start, early intervention, family literacy, and pre-kindergarten programs. Keystone Kids Go! was created by the Pennsylvania Departments of Health, Education, and Public Welfare, in partnership with:
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- Tuscarora Intermediate Unit
- Penn State Cooperative Extension
- Family Literacy Programs
- Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network
- Head Start State Collaboration Office
EAT SMART MOVE MORE
http://www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/
Welcome to Eat Smart, Move More North Carolina, a statewide movement that promotes increased opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity wherever people live, learn, earn, play and pray.
We work to help communities, schools and businesses make it easy for people to eat healthy food and be physically active. We also encourage individuals to think differently about what they eat and how much they move, and to make choices that will help them feel good and live better.
Eat Smart, Move More NC is guided by the work of the Eat Smart, Move More NC (ESMM) Leadership Team, a multi-disciplinary team comprised of statewide partners working together to increase opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity.
supporting tools…
-Color Me Healthy – Preschool curriculum on eating healthy and being active.
-NAP-SACC – Assessment for child-care settings.
-Families Eating Smart and Moving More – A toolkit that offers families simple solutions to help them eat smart and move more.
-My Eat Smart Move More – Simple solutions on how you and your family can eat smart and move more
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES
Building Healthy Families (BHF) is an independent, nonprofit parent support organization, offering personalized universal support and education for parents, caregivers and parents-to-be through the home visits program, parent education, resource library, Healthy Start, and Safe Visits program. At BHF, we focus on child development, age-appropriate behavior, parent-child interaction, positive discipline, and family health and safety. We promote family access to needed resources in the community, and advocate for children and families.
ACTIVE BODIES ACTIVE MINDS
http://depts.washington.edu/tvhealth/
The purpose of this project is to ensure that environments for children
ages 2-5 encourage minimum screen time and maximum physical activity.
Goal: Early childhood health and education professionals will be able to
access a website that provides:
- Background information about the importance of limiting screen time and
encouraging physical activity for young children - Resources for limiting screen time and encouraging physical activity
in child care. - Resources for limiting screen time and encouraging physical
activity in homes
10 STEPS TO A FRIENDLY BREASFEEDING CHILD CARE CENTER RESOURCE TOOLKIT
http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/physicalactivity/pdf_files/BreastfeedingFriendlyChildCareCenters.pdf
Child care centers are one key environment for that change to take place. By working together, the people of Wisconsin have a great opportunity to create communities that support breastfeeding and reduce the health and economic burden of obesity and chronic diseases. The toolkit includes a brief questionnaire designed to help child care centers perform a review of their existing practices and their current compliance with the requirements for the Breastfeeding Friendly designation. It’s an ideal tool to assess key areas where improvements are necessary in order to support breastfeeding mothers and babies. The remainder of the tookit is a detailed 10 step manual to help child care centers support mothers establishment healthy sustainable habits of breastfeeding.
GOT DIRT? GARDEN TOOLKIT (FOR STARTING SCHOOL AND CHILDCARE GARDENS)
http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/health/physicalactivity/pdf_files/GotDirt_09.pdf
The purpose of the Got Dirt? Garden Initiative is to improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables through increasing the implementation of youth fruit and vegetable gardens in Wisconsin. The overall health outcome of the Got Dirt? Garden Initiative is to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables among children, adolescents, and adults. Moreover, by encouraging you to start a garden, the toolkit attempts to support a number of the following national and state initiatives.
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