Breastfeeding: Tips for Head Start Staff
This resource will help Head Start and early care and education managers and staff ensure policies, training, and best practices to create a program that welcomes breastfeeding.
Good nutrition is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Eating healthy foods helps pregnant women and children get the nutrients their bodies need to stay healthy, active, and strong. Health managers and program staff can explore resources to support healthy eating habits and find nutrition assistance information to share with families.
This resource will help Head Start and early care and education managers and staff ensure policies, training, and best practices to create a program that welcomes breastfeeding.
This video stresses the need for safe plans and protocols for children with food allergies and provides some strategies and questions to reflect on.
Learn the benefits of family style dining and how to support it in an early childhood education program.
Explore this tip sheet to learn about 10 ways to create state and local program partnerships between Head Start and local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs.
Feeding your baby is an opportunity to bond and get to know each other. This short video explains two approaches that support healthy feeding with your baby.
Find out how family mealtime can be an important opportunity to support child development.
Find out how family mealtime can be an important opportunity to support child development.
Mealtime isn’t all about eating—it’s also a time for families to build healthy habits. Together.
Three short webinars on responsive feeding and how home visitors can help families make the most of mealtimes.
In this fact sheet, find easy tips families may use to help their children learn about nutrition and healthy eating behaviors starting in infancy.