Jun
03
2019
Over $400,000 is going to communities across the state for Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers: Shape NC. The program is designed to promote nutrition and active learning through play with children ages birth to three years of age....
Apr
09
2012
Shape NC, a partnership between the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation and The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. to combat childhood obesity now has its own logo. This three-year, $3 million effort partnership is...
Feb
07
2012
Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) is expected to introduce the Healthy Kids from Day One Act, a bill that promotes obesity prevention in the child care setting. North Carolina has been a the forefront of this issue. In 2010, the...
Feb
01
2011
Eight communities across North Carolina will receive funding to improve their early childhood nutrition education. The new program, "Shape NC: Healthy Starts for Young Children," is expected to reach thousands of preschoolers in a state where more than 31...
Jan
28
2011
Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) will present the Healthy Kids Collaborative (HKC) at the 26th Annual Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh on February 7, 2011.
Selected for its leadership, innovative strategies and role in empowering communities to combat the...
Jan
04
2011
"People don't realize how early this starts," said Dr. Sarah Armstrong, a pediatrician and the director of Duke Children's Healthy Lifestyle Program, a clinical treatment program for obese kids.
Dr. Armstrong is quoted in an article titled, "Children's weight woes...
Oct
28
2010
The NAP SACC program partners with state-trained child care health consultants who work with early childhood programs to improve nutrition and physical activity practices and policies. Smart Start introduced NAP SACC in November 2007 with the intention that participating...
Oct
26
2010
BCBSNC Foundation and The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. Launch $3 Million Initiative to Tackle State’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic
With North Carolina facing the fifth highest rate of childhood obesity in the country, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield...
Oct
22
2010
"My daughter, Evelyn, has been going to Little Teddies since she was 3 months old. She has always been a picky eater, but since they started the NAP SACC program, she has been eating healthy foods at school. I...
Oct
22
2010
“We wanted to provide an environment that would introduce the children to the earth and how things grow, to create a hunger in them to eat healthy and challenge them to exercise and encourage interaction."
- Stephanie Grennan, Director of...