Preventing Obesity in the Child Care Setting
December 9, 2009 | Report
Report authors encouraged states to adopt specific regulations for child care, using those developed by a team of experts and included in the report as a guide.
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December 9, 2009 | Report
Report authors encouraged states to adopt specific regulations for child care, using those developed by a team of experts and included in the report as a guide.
August 30, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University College of Health and Human Development tested the effect of changes in foods provided by day-care centers to their pre-schoolers.
March 22, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers found that children in family, friend and neighbor care the year before kindergarten were more likely to be obese at the start of kindergarten than children in parent care.
September 8, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation studies the regulations’ impact on children’s diets and levels of physical activity and the factors affecting implementation of the regulations in New York City's licensed day-care centers.
June 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PA AAP) created a public-private partnership known as the Early Childhood Education Linkage System (ECELS) in 1989.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
Replication and Program Strategies, Philadelphia, held a conference in 2000 of funders of early childhood programs.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark. developed and tested a new training program called Educare for persons providing child care for infants and toddlers.
October 1, 1997 | Program Result
Tynisha LaDuke's entry into kindergarten didn't seem like the kind of event that would get an article in the newspaper. A healthy, eager-to-learn five-year-old, she was exactly the kind of student every teacher hopes for.
National Program
To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015.
National Program
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.