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Action Planning: Creating Healthier Environments for Children. Program Policies. Program Environment. Program Staff. Family. Child. Action Plan for ABC ECE Program. Use results from Let’s Move! Child Care Quiz or Go NAP SACC to help set goal
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Action Planning: Creating Healthier Environments for Children Program Policies Program Environment Program Staff Family Child
Action Plan for ABC ECE Program • Use results from Let’s Move! Child Care Quiz or Go NAP SACC to help set goal • Goals and Action Steps include practices and policies with high impact: • Healthy Eating • Healthy Beverages • Physical Activity • Screen Time Limits • Breastfeeding • Focus on ecosystem around the child to construct and support lasting change • Action steps should be S.M.A.R.T. • Specific (hit high points, but don’t need every detail here) • Measurable (did you achieve it: yes/no?) • Action-oriented (“do”) • Realistic (achievable, not too lofty) • Time-bound (set a target date for completion)
ABC Program-wide Goals and Objectivesfor Action Plan • Children eat only healthy food in our program: • Revise menus over a 3 month period to align with best practices. • Engage children in weekly, planned activities to increase healthy eating and awareness of healthy habits. • Implement family style dining. • Children drink only healthy beverages in our program: • Make water accessible to children throughout the day, inside and out. • Serve only nonfat milk to children two years and older for all meals. • Stop serving juice or sugary drinks in our program.
ABC Program-wide Goals and Objectivesfor Action Plan, continued… • Breastfeeding mothers and babies are encouraged and supported. • Develop policies and practices to encourage and support breastfeeding moms and babies. • Create a private space to breastfeed or pump. • Infants and children have more opportunities to engage in daily physical activity. • Infants experience supervised tummy time daily. • Children experience daily physical activity daily, indoors and outdoors: 120 minutes a day for preschoolers and 90 minutes a day for toddlers. • Children in our program do not experience passive screen time. • Remove televisions from classrooms. • Create an environment that encourages physical activity and exploration rather than passive screen time.
Goal:Breastfeeding mothers and babies are encouraged and supported in our program.
Goal:Breastfeeding mothers and babies are encouraged and supported in our program.
Goal: Infants and children have more opportunities to engage in daily physical activity (PA).
Goal: Infants and children have more opportunities to engage in daily physical activity (PA).