STARS Approved Trainings
These free trainings are STARS approved and address the topics of healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding support and screen time reduction:
- Let’s Move! Child Care: Healthy Eating Online STARS Module
- Let’s Move! Child Care: Physical Activity Online STARS Module
- Let's Move! Child Care: Breastfeeding Support Online STARS Module
- Media Aware Child Care II, Online STARS Module
- Developed by the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition
Healthy Kids, Healthy Future - Penn State University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have partnered to create six Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC) training modules. The free online training modules provide practical strategies for implementing best practices in early care and education (ECE) settings for promoting healthy weight in young children.
Toolkits
Toolkits on healthy eating and physical activity for early learning settings:
- Farm to Preschool Toolkit from the Washington State Department of Agriculture
- Let’s Move! Child Care
- Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care: Healthy Policies Toolkit from the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment in Child Care (NAPSACC)
Resources for Early Learning and School-Age Programs
- Early Learning and Educational Technology Policy Brief, by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2016
- Policy Statement on Media and Young Minds, from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), November 2016
- Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Meal Patterns
- Meal Planning Guides, provided by Snohomish County Human Services
- USDA MyPlate for Kids
- USDA Team Nutrition materials
- Feeding Young Children in Group Settings from the University of Idaho
- Let's Cook Whole Foods for Healthy Kids Resource Manual: Spokane Health District
- Child Care Health Program Public Health Seattle and King County
- Snohomish Health District, Child Care Outreach Program
- Early childhood Health and Wellness, Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
- National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education
- Motion Moments Videos: Ideas for Weaving Physical Activity into Current Activities from NRCKids
- Physical Activities for Young Children: Lead with Confidence, training module created by Penn State Extension Better Kid Care
- PE Central: Preschool Physical Education Lesson Ideas
- Playworks (Games library with searchable games by age of children)
- National Guidelines Nature Play & Learning Places, National Wildlife Federation and Natural Learning Initiative
- NAPSACC, Resources from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill