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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Child Care as an Untapped Setting for Obesity Prevention
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In addressing the obesity epidemic, the authors examined state policies surrounding diet and screen exposure among different child-care organizations across the United States.
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.
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.
Healthy Eating Research
April 5, 2013 | Program Result
Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies to examine policy and environmental approaches with potential to improve children's diets - especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.
Head Start/Anti-Substance Abuse Program Falters in New Jersey
October 1, 2003 | Program Result
Concerned Parents for Head Start in Paterson, N.J., developed Project Unconditional, a project designed to integrate family and community strengthening components into Head Start to reduce risks for substance abuse.
Helping Mothers and Children with a Families Center in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.
Shaniqua Ballard's Story
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.