Mar
29
2012
Let's Move! Child Care Webinar
We've been promoting Let's Move! Child Care, a website of resources and inspiration to improve the nutrition and healthy weight of America's children. States are competing to get the most child care providers signed...
Mar
26
2012
From the UNC Gillings School of Public Health
17th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health
Health Equity: Progress and Pitfalls
Original Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Childhood Migration and Well-being: A Framework for Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges,...
Mar
13
2012
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College today released a comprehensive statement, “Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood...
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
06
2012
Rivals cost of other high profile public health problems
ATLANTA, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment (physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect)...
Feb
03
2012
Don't miss this opportunity! Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, will participate in a live webcast on The Toxic Stress of Early Childhood Adversity: Rethinking Health and Education Policy.
The webcast will be moderated...
Oct
10
2011
Smart Start announces second round of counties to implement Shape NC
RALEIGH – Smart Start, the state’s award-winning early childhood initiative, has announced the next 10 communities selected to implement Shape NC: Healthy Starts for Young Children. Shape NC is...
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
18
2011
North Carolina's Abecedarian Project is once again making news. Science Daily reports that researchers found that individuals who had received the intensive education intervention starting in infancy had significantly better health and better health behaviors as young adults.
The Abecedarian project...