Promoting healthy lifestyles for children & families

Resources

Happy, Healthy & Well: Worksite Wellness in Child Care Centers - English, Spanish Toolkit

The Happy, Healthy & Well (HHW) toolkit was developed for use with child care and early childhood education staff to support adopting healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors in the child care work environment. Research has shown that staff is more likely promote healthy habits if they have adopted these behaviors themselves. HHW program materials include:

Funder: 
United States Department of Agriculture / Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
Collaborators: 
Contra Costa County Childcare Council, Los Angeles County Deptartment of Health
Year: 
2006
Contact: 
Suzanne Rauzon

Nutrition Education in School Food Service Took Kit - English, Spanish

For most children, school is the largest source of meals eaten outside of the home. School food service offers an ideal setting for experiential learning around food for children and for engaging parents in modeling healthy eating habits at home.

Funder: 
United States Department of Agriculture / Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
Year: 
2006
Contact: 
Lorrene Ritchie

NUTRITION.GOV

A federal resource that provides easy access to all online federal government information on nutrition, including specialized nutrition information for infants and children, adult women and men, and seniors. Nutrition.gov is a service of the National Agricultural Library, USDA.