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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Does Reducing Calories in Foods for Preschoolers Affect How They Eat?
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.
Child-Care Settings Before Kindergarten are Related to Kids' Obesity
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.
Evaluation of the New York City Day-Care Policy to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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.
Pennsylvania Health Professionals Train Child Care Providers
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.
How Can Early Childhood Programs Best be Replicated?
July 1, 2002 | Program Result
Replication and Program Strategies, Philadelphia, held a conference in 2000 of funders of early childhood programs.
Pilot Program to Train Child Care Providers Stumbles
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.
Way to Grow Program Meets Children's Health Needs to Prepare Them for School
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.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
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.
Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.
National Program
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.