2022 Program Spotlight

What is a community wellness hub, and how can partnerships with park and recreation agencies support the health of children and their families? Learn how a collaboration of a park and recreation agency, partners, and community members can implement innovative food access strategies to support health and well-being.

Hear about this national project aimed to foster collaboration within state systems, including CACFP providers, early care educators, and pediatricians to improve food insecurity screening, referral, and resource delivery to families. Take away strategies to build partnerships addressing food insecurity in your community.

Learn how representatives from three state agencies collaborated to develop consistent messaging for Arizona’s ECE staff and technical assistance providers. The outcome was an attractive meal quality infographic outlining state licensing and CACFP regulatory foundations along with best practices informed by Caring for Our Children, Go NAPSACC, and USDA Team Nutrition.

Learn how the Happily Healthy program provided monthly meal kits, nutrition education, recipes, and nutrition program resources to SIUC Head Start families. The program supported the food security needs of families while educating them on cooking skills, budgeting, MyPlate, physical activity and family meals. Discuss what items were included in the meal kits and what families learned from the program.

Well-Nourished, Brighter Futures, an initiative of the Let’s Eat Healthy® movement, aims to achieve nutrition equity through multi-sector collaboration. Hear about their collaboration and resources to help children in your program achieve optimal health and development.

Hear about this national project aimed to foster collaboration within state systems, including CACFP providers, early care educators and pediatricians to improve food insecurity screening, referral and resource delivery to families. Take away strategies to build partnerships addressing food insecurity in your community.

Hear how the NC Summer Nutrition Program sponsors and sites raised the bar on serving meals to children during the pandemic. By thinking out of the box, they were able to form new partnerships, marketing strategies, and ways to use their volunteers. Analyze the data from similar projects so you can apply these strategies to your own program.

In order to increase involvement in the CACFP, Well-Ahead LA and Child Care Aware of America partnered to create a CACFP Participations map. Come learn how the map educated stakeholders of the lack of participation in Louisiana and created new opportunities for child care providers.

Establishing the Three Es (education, exercise, eating right) is a grant opportunity provided by TDA to promote better health and nutrition to prevent obesity among children. Learn how past participants worked with community organizations to implement healthier menus, farm fresh projects, nutrition education, and how they increased physical activity.

Learn how a small inner-city non-profit organization with no previous experience created a successful At-Risk Afterschool Meal Program. Leave with the keys to developing public and private partnerships, creating a super staff, building community value and providing amazing meals.