Led by Nemours Children’s Health, Healthy Kids, Healthy Future is a national effort to promote healthy eating and physical activity in child care. We partner with national and state organizations to embed best practices in early care and education (ECE) settings and systems. Nemours develops, implements, and shares resources for ECE professionals to create healthier environments for young children. Healthy Kids, Healthy Future continues the momentum started by Let’s Move! Child Care launched in 2011 as part of Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to prevent childhood obesity.

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March 30, 2016March 31, 2016

Using a Train-the-Trainer Approach in Minnesota

Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has focused extensively on a train-the-trainer approach to assist ECE providers. State health department staff discovered that ECE provider trainings alone were not enough to help ECE providers apply the concepts they were taught.