2024-2025 Springboard Opportunities

2024-2025 Springboard Opportunities

2024-2025 Springboard Opportunities Offered by CDC and Nemours Children’s Health for States to Advance Early Care and Education Work What is the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP)? HKHF TAP provides support to early care and education (ECE) organizations to integrate best practices and standards for healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding support, […]

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Webinar Series: ECE Summer 2024 Resource Showcase

Webinar Series: ECE Summer 2024 Resource Showcase

Nemours Children’s Health and partners hosted a three-part webinar series to share new resources and training materials for Early Care and Education (ECE). These resources can be used by ECE professionals, trainers, and organizations to support healthy eating and physical activity in ECE programs. A description, recording, and presentation slides for each webinar is below. […]

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Growing Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) in Maine

Growing Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) in Maine

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Maine (HKHF Maine) team developed a virtual Farm to ECE pilot program to grow the Farm to ECE initiative and increase healthy eating and physical activity in Maine ECE settings.  Learn more >>

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Let’s Get Moving Louisiana!

Let’s Get Moving Louisiana!

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Louisiana administered a grant program called Let’s Be Healthy to assist child care providers across the state in improving their outdoor learning environments (OLE).  Learn more >>

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Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program Virtual Convening

Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program Virtual Convening

Nemours Children’s Health hosted the 2023 Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP) Virtual Convening on June 6 and 7, 2023. The convening provided attendees the opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate around healthy eating and physical activity in early care and education settings and systems. HKHF TAP activities are made possible with […]

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Webinar Series: ECE Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource Showcase

Webinar Series: ECE Nutrition and Physical Activity Resource Showcase

Nemours Children’s Health and partners hosted a three-part webinar series to share new resources and training materials for Early Care and Education (ECE). These resources can be used by ECE professionals, trainers, and organizations to support healthy eating and physical activity in ECE programs. A description, recording, and presentation slides for each webinar is below. […]

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Make Way for Florida’s HEROs! Expanding Technical Assistance to Support Best Practices for Healthy Habits in ECE

Make Way for Florida’s HEROs! Expanding Technical Assistance to Support Best Practices for Healthy Habits in ECE

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Florida successfully established a statewide technical assistance (TA) network, known as Let’s Be Healthy Environments for Reducing Obesity (HEROs) to expand TA to child care providers across the state to assist with their implementation of nutrition and physical activity best practices in […]

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Promoting Healthy Practices in ECE through Breastfeeding Support in Kansas

Promoting Healthy Practices in ECE through Breastfeeding Support in Kansas

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Child Care Aware of Kansas (CCAKS) and the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition (KBC) developed the Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Toolkit in 2020 to promote breastfeeding and support Early Care and Education (ECE) programs to facilitate this healthy practice for mothers and babies. The […]

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