Upcoming Webinar: Creating Healthy Menus in Early Care and Education Settings

Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST

Register at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/285191391

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH), which has regulatory authority over group child care centers in NYC, modified the health code to promote obesity prevention in early childhood settings. Specifically, the regulations implemented in 2007 created requirements for beverages served to children. In order to better understand the implementation of these policies, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Foundation, NYC DOHMH, and ICF International worked collaboratively to conduct an evaluation of this effort. This webinar will highlight key findings from this work related to creating a healthy nutrition environment within a group child care setting through a healthy menu, focusing on providing practical recommendations and tools that child care providers can use to improve the nutritional content of food served to within child care and promote childhood obesity prevention. The webinar presenters will be joined by several child care practitioners who will share their experiences working to create healthy menus in early child care centers.