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Addressing Feeding Concerns & Approaches to Nutrition Therapy

Do you struggle with picky and selective eaters? Learn to navigate feeding concerns for picky, selective, or avoidant eaters. Understand the root causes and work with your children to support their eating by focusing on the environment and the reasons behind their struggle. Help the children in your care feel confident, rather than scared and anxious, to fuel their body!

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Menu Planning for the CACFP

Develop meal planning techniques that can be used to serve healthy and appealing meals and snacks that meet CACFP and preschool meal pattern requirements. Learn how to accommodate food allergies, incorporate multi-cultural recipes and locally-sourced foods, develop strategies for creating custom menus and go home with menus you can use immediately or as inspiration. 

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Supporting Family Child Care: Creating a Statewide Staffed Network

Family child care (FCC) educators are vital to early childhood, yet often feel unsupported. The NC Statewide Family Child Care Project offers hands-on help and learning to retain trusted FCC providers, expand home-based care options and improve care quality. Through coaching, mentoring and professional development, it strengthens access to high-quality, reliable child care.

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CACFP Training Program & Nutrition Calendar

Where else can you find nutrition information, CACFP best practices, crafts, activities, business tips, training modules, parent connection letters, curriculum and record-keeping in one place? NCA’s Nutrition Calendar & Training Program offers it all for providers, centers and afterschool sites. Get the 56-page calendar record-keeping system and 5-hour training in bulk for under $5 per provider!

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Little Plates, Big Impact: Enhance CACFP with Local Produce

Healthy nutrition fuels children’s growth, play and learning. Discover how the CACFP, combined with local produce, can transform communities one child at a time. Dive into the importance of well-balanced meals, learn how “little plates” make a big impact and get eight delicious recipes to enhance CACFP offerings. Hear inspiring stories that highlight lasting benefits for children and families.

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