2023-2024 Springboard Opportunities

2023-2024 Springboard Opportunities

2023-2024 Springboard Opportunities Offered by CDC and Nemours Children’s Health for States to Advance Early Care and Education Work What is the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP)? HKHF TAP is a Cooperative Agreement between CDC and Nemours Children’s that provides support to improve healthy eating and physical activity best practices in […]

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Make Way for Florida’s HEROs! Expanding Technical Assistance to Support Best Practices for Healthy Habits in ECE

Make Way for Florida’s HEROs! Expanding Technical Assistance to Support Best Practices for Healthy Habits in ECE

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Florida successfully established a statewide technical assistance (TA) network, known as Let’s Be Healthy Environments for Reducing Obesity (HEROs) to expand TA to child care providers across the state to assist with their implementation of nutrition and physical activity best practices in […]

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Webinar Series: Advancing Equity in Early Childhood

Webinar Series: Advancing Equity in Early Childhood

In 2022, Nemours Children’s Health and Healthy Eating Research at Duke University presented the “Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Advancing Equity in Early Childhood” webinar series. Through four webinars, this series explored how to leverage early care and education settings to achieve equitable health outcomes by highlighting opportunities and advances in: • Policy • Research • […]

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2022-2023 TAP Springboard Opportunities

2022-2023 TAP Springboard Opportunities

2022-2023 Springboard Opportunities Offered by CDC and Nemours Children’s Health for States to Advance Early Care and Education Work What is the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP)? HKHF TAP is a cooperative agreement between CDC and Nemours Children’s that provides support to improve healthy eating and physical activity best practices in […]

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Promoting Healthy Practices in ECE through Breastfeeding Support in Kansas

Promoting Healthy Practices in ECE through Breastfeeding Support in Kansas

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), Child Care Aware of Kansas (CCAKS) and the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition (KBC) developed the Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Toolkit in 2020 to promote breastfeeding and support Early Care and Education (ECE) programs to facilitate this healthy practice for mothers and babies. The […]

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What Iowa CACFP Can Do for Me!

What Iowa CACFP Can Do for Me!

With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), the Iowa Department of Education and state partners found an innovative way to increase participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to provide nutritious meals to eligible children and improve child care quality. Learn More »

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Strong from the Start

Strong from the Start

Transforming Nutrition and Physical Activity Practices in Georgia Childcare Sites With support from the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Technical Assistance Program (HKHF TAP), HealthMPowers, a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy habits to build a better future for all children, partnered with 40 Georgia ECE sites to transform their nutrition and physical activity practices, policies, and […]

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