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, […]
With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Healthy Early and the Partnership for a Healthier America worked together to address COVID-19-related food access concerns of early child care providers through an innovative food access pilot, ‘Good Food for All’. Learn More »
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 […]
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 […]
With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), the Iowa Department of Education and state partners found an innovative way to increase participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to provide nutritious meals to eligible children and improve child care quality. Learn More »
Supporting Outdoor Learning Environments for South Carolina’s Youngest Residents With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control (DHEC) offered high-quality training opportunities to increase early childhood professional’s understanding of the importance […]
Transforming Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices in Georgia Childcare Sites With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), HealthMPowers, a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy habits to build a better future for all children, partnered with 40 Georgia ECE sites to transform their nutrition and physical activity practices, policies, and […]