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Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...

Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...

Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...

In a journey that began in 2010, Shape NC: Healthy Starts for Young Children, sunset on December 31, 2020 (the Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers project ends September 2021). Over the course of the grant, Shape NC reached...

BCBSNC Foundation Grant Drives More NC Produce to More NC Students The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and the BCBSNC Foundation Team Up to Expand the NC Farm to School Program to 35 Additional School Systems CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is releasing a new twelve-part series, Profiles of Latino Health: A Closer Look at Latino Child Nutrition. Each profile provides a snapshot of the latest research and data on issues affecting Latino...