Posts Tagged ‘NCNC25’
Seeds of Hope
Discover how to integrate Farm-to-CACFP to enhance child nutrition and education. Get guided through the essential components to get started (seeds), strategies to implement and sustain your program (growth), and the benefits your program can achieve (harvest). Learn about budgeting, garden planning, curriculum integration, and the positive impacts on children’s health and development.
Read MoreTeaming Up for Greater Impact: Creating Collaborative Partnerships
Do you have difficulty evaluating and establishing potential collaborative partnerships in your community? Discover the characteristics of communal relationship types to build a matrix plan. Then, learn how to apply strategies to plan for and implement collaborative engagement with community partners.
Read MoreFueling the Future: Strategies to Prevent Burnout
Burnout is a common challenge that can impact both personal well-being and professional effectiveness. Explore practical tools and techniques to maintain balance, boost resilience, and stay energized in your role. Get empowered to stay in the fight against child hunger over the long haul, without compromising your own health and well-being.
Read MoreNutrition to Youth Development: An Extension’s Role in Schools
Discover the benefits of partnering and connecting with your state’s extension services to enhance school nutrition, gardening, physical activities, and youth development programs. Learn how extension services can begin to help improve community well-being through innovative solutions in education and fostering impactful collaborations, ultimately enriching student education and health.
Read MoreOperating a Non-Congregate Summer Food Service
Have you ever wondered what operating a non-congregate summer nutrition program looks like? How do you pick site locations? How do you navigate the complexity of developing a menu? How do you transport meal bags? How do families and children get to your location in rural areas? Discover helpful tips for all of these and successfully planning and operating your non-congregate feeding site.
Read MoreMaximizing SUN Programs Across Two State Agencies
USDA has created its exciting new SUN branding to unify Sun Bucks, Sun Meals-To-Go, and Sun Meals as a family of Summer Nutrition Programs for Kids! But what happens when these are administered by more than a single state agency? Overworked and short-staffed agencies can coordinate via partnerships to co-market and maximize program participation. Learn how the magic happens in North Carolina.
Read MoreFind Your Farmer: Enrich Farm to ECE Through Producer Relationships
Farm to ECE enhances community access to healthy and local foods by changing food purchasing practices, elevating food and agricultural education, and strengthening local food economies. Explore the National Farm to School Network’s role in supporting ECE programs, steps for connecting with local producers for procurement, and innovative approaches to food purchasing.
Read MoreThriving Kids: Nurturing Health with Plant-Based Nutrition
Why are more and more countries recommending plant-based nutrition in their national guidelines? Plants provide exceptional nutrition without the added cholesterol, saturated fats, flavors, colors, hormones, or medications that can be found in animal products. Learn to dispel myths surrounding plant-based nutrition to get kids excited about eating meatless meals.
Read MoreBe a Kid’s Hero: Food and Nutrient Acceptance in the Early Years
Complementary foods, those other than breast milk or infant formula, are typically introduced around six months of age and ensure adequate nutrition as the baby grows. When not introduced to them, infants may reject foods introduced later and consume an inadequate variety to meet nutritional needs. Learn tips for increasing food acceptance and nutrient density in infancy through adolescence.
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