2022 NCNC

Learn how the Happily Healthy program provided monthly meal kits, nutrition education, recipes, and nutrition program resources to SIUC Head Start families. The program supported the food security needs of families while educating them on cooking skills, budgeting, MyPlate, physical activity and family meals. Discuss what items were included in the meal kits and what families learned from the program.

Well-Nourished, Brighter Futures, an initiative of the Let’s Eat Healthy® movement, aims to achieve nutrition equity through multi-sector collaboration. Hear about their collaboration and resources to help children in your program achieve optimal health and development.

Hear about this national project aimed to foster collaboration within state systems, including CACFP providers, early care educators and pediatricians to improve food insecurity screening, referral and resource delivery to families. Take away strategies to build partnerships addressing food insecurity in your community.

Hear how the NC Summer Nutrition Program sponsors and sites raised the bar on serving meals to children during the pandemic. By thinking out of the box, they were able to form new partnerships, marketing strategies, and ways to use their volunteers. Analyze the data from similar projects so you can apply these strategies to your own program.

In order to increase involvement in the CACFP, Well-Ahead LA and Child Care Aware of America partnered to create a CACFP Participations map. Come learn how the map educated stakeholders of the lack of participation in Louisiana and created new opportunities for child care providers.