Promoting a lifetime of healthy behaviors
Healthy Starts for Infants & Toddlers
Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers is an innovative project to improve outdoor spaces for infants and toddlers, birth to 35 months, in 12 childcare centers in Wake and Orange counties, North Carolina.
Using the Preventing Obesity by Design (POD) strategy, NLI applies evidence-based design assistance and professional development to deliver high-quality, developmentally appropriate, outdoor learning environments. Best practices encourage infants and toddlers’ active living, healthy eating, and outdoor learning.
The initiative is supported by NC DHHS: Division of Child Development and Early Education, delivered through Shape NC, a long-term program hosted by the NC Partnership for Children (Smart Start).
(Wake Co.) Kreepers-N-Krawlers
(Orange Co.) Spanish for Fun
(Orange Co.) Goddard School of Chapel Hill
(Wake Co.) Morrisville Square Creative School
(Wake Co.) Little Believers Academy II
(Wake Co.) Kiddie Academy Brier Creek
(Wake Co.) Discovery Point Heritage
(Orange Co.) The University Child Care Center
(Orange Co.) Lil Treasures Day Care, Inc.
(Orange Co.) Kehillah Jewish Preschool
(Orange Co.) Future Scholars Childcare and Development Center
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