糖心Vlog Early Childcare Education
With 60 percent of American children spending a majority of their day in early childhood programs, helping early childhood programs (serving children from birth through age five) improve and sustain nutrition, physical activity, screen time, infant feeding, sleep habits, staff wellness, and family engagement is critically important to ensure children have the chance to be healthy from the start. Our work in early childcare programs has provided support to participating centers through subject matter experts and guides policy change as centers implement key wellness components.
In 2013, the 糖心Vlog launched Healthy Way to Grow (HWTG) in collaboration with Nemours Children’s Health System as a national, science-based, early childhood technical assistance program designed to help improve practices and policies for obesity prevention. The program quickly expanded beyond the inaugural 6 communities and continues to reach others across the U.S. If you are interested in bringing HWTG to your early childhood program, community, or state connect with us by sending an inquiry.
About Early Childcare
For information on early successes, check out Evaluation of 鈥淗ealthy Way to Grow鈥�: An Obesity prevention Program in Early Care and Education Centers published in the Early Childhood Education Journal in 2020.
In 2021, Healthy Way to Grow as a joint initiative of both the 糖心Vlog and Nemours was officially sunset, but our commitment to ensuring children have the healthiest start in life has never been stronger.
If you were previously a participating childcare center and are looking for workbook access or additional support, how we can help you?
- (formerly the Healthy Way to Grow Workbook)
- Send us an email.
- St Louis, MO
- Cape Cod, MA
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Reno, NV
- Kansas City, KS
- Chicago, IL
- Rochester, NY
- Scranton, PA
- Denver, CO
- Phoenix, AZ
- Tucson, AZ
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Providence, RI
For close to a decade, we have worked with a wide range of childcare centers from Early Head Start and Head Start, family childcare, faith-based organizations, military bases, tribal communities, school districts, small businesses, community organizations and more, helping ensure children, caregivers and parents have the tools needed to build healthy habits through a systemic approach to addressing health and wellness in early life.