Opportunities to Integrate Farm to ECE into Early Care Policies
Primary Presenter Brief Bio
Beth Stevenson has worked in public health for over 30 years. Her current works as public health consultant with HealthMPowers leveraging the skills of community level teams to implement policy and systems changes in early care settings. Most recently she was with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 10 years and prior to that with the National Office of the American Cancer Society. At CDC, Beth served in multiple positions including as Goal Team Leader for the CDC-wide effort to address child health. With the American Cancer Society, she developed and implemented a 3-year training model for school/community teams to actively change policies to improve the health of students. Beth is a passionate advocate for children and for the importance of nutrition and physical activity in early childhood.
Type of Presentation
Regular Session
Location
Room 2903
Topic Category
Strand 2: Nurturing Healthy Children
Targeted Age Group
0 1 2
Targeted Audience
Family Child Care, Child Care Center, Directors/Administrators
Brief Session Description
Adopting wellness policies can make a difference: children miss less school, are more active, and have access to healthier food choices. This session helps Early Care Providers promote and policies with a focus on Farm to School and school gardens.
Start Date
20-1-2018 1:15 PM
End Date
20-1-2018 2:30 PM
Opportunities to Integrate Farm to ECE into Early Care Policies
Room 2903
Adopting wellness policies can make a difference: children miss less school, are more active, and have access to healthier food choices. This session helps Early Care Providers promote and policies with a focus on Farm to School and school gardens.
Full Session Description
Adopting wellness policies can make a difference: children miss less days of school, are more active during the day, and have access to healthier food choices. Parents are excited by strong policies that show their children are in a special early care setting that cares strongly about health. Teachers can look after their own health while they share ideas for being healthy role models in the classroom. Wellness policies demonstrate that your organization recognizes the importance of lifelong health. HealthMPowers partners with Early Care Providers to strengthen health programming and policies across all nutrition and physical activity domains that are assessed by the Georgia Department of Public Health -- including Farm to Early Care programs. With a focus on the Department of Early Care and Learning Nutrition and Physical Activity assessment, this session will showcase some of the creative ways ECE settings are using Farm to School and school gardens as part of a comprehensive approach to helping children and their families live healthy for a lifetime. This session will be active and participants should come prepared to move, to gather new ideas and come away with a list of next steps to build their own healthy environments.