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Healthy Kids, Healthy Future is the revised name and continues the work of Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC), part of Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to prevent childhood obesity. Healthy Kids, Healthy Future encourages and supports child care and early education providers to make positive changes in their programs in order to work toward a healthier future for children. Healthy Kids, Healthy Future is voluntary and for all types of programs: family child care homes, centers, Early Head Start and Head Start programs, preschool, tribal programs and faith-based programs.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Future offers childhood obesity prevention resources and tools to assist child care and preschool providers. Best practices are outlined in five healthy goal areas: nurturing healthy eaters, providing healthy beverages, increasing physical activity, limiting screen time and supporting breastfeeding.

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Learn more about how to inspire healthy habits in young children. Watch former First Lady Michelle Obama talk about how to support childhood obesity prevention in early care and education settings.

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Welcome! Be a part of making young children healthy

Below are steps to help children develop healthy habits to last a lifetime. These steps are useful for all types of early care and education programs: Early Head Start and Head Start, preschool, tribal, military and faith-based.

1
Learn about Healthy
Best Practices for ECE
Learn More
2
Evaluate
Your Program
Take the Quiz
3
Set Goals for
Improvement
Make an Action Plan

“Amazing resources that have changed how we run this program. Easy changes have made a big difference.”

– Hasina Siddiq
Owner, Sugarland Learning Academy
Sterling, VA

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