Child Care Insurance Professionals
1484 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
Healthy nutrition for childcare
Unified opposition to Juice and Milk bans in day care centers
Poll in North Carolina shows consensus to legislation regulating day care center’s food
There is widespread opposition among Republicans and Democrats to policies banning juice boxes and whole milk in day care centers, according to a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
According to the live caller poll of likely voters, 62 percent of voters [...]
Michigan preschool invites community to their center at monthly Farmer’s Market
Monthly Farmer’s Market get’s parents out to the preschool
Families from The Ann Arbor Preschool & Family Center have gone home with armloads of fresh, seasonal produce since last fall thanks to a wellness initiative that involves Chartwells, Food Gatherers and The Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Health and Wellness Committee held at a local preschool.
Staff from [...]
Battling obesity in today’s children – Tips for Child Care Centers
Dramatic increases in obesity noted in early childhood years
Many of today’s kids are alarmingly overweight, but there are ways to combat this dangerous problem. In the past three decades, the childhood obesity rate has more than tripled in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Nearly 18 percent of adolescents age 12 to 19 were [...]
Research Shows Delaware Embraces Physical Activity and Nutrition Standards in Child Care
Study shows child care centers can make a difference with child care
A study conducted by the nonprofit health research organization Altarum Institute suggests that Delaware’s first-in-the-nation guidelines for nutrition and physical activity in child care are broadly accepted by both child care providers and parents, and that challenges to implementing the policies can be overcome [...]
North Carolina students host nutrition workshop for childcare professionals
Child care professionals taught how to encourage kids to eat healthy
At a time when more North Carolina children are obese than ever before in history, local students and childcare professionals gathered at the Little Bites, Big Steps nutrition workshop. The workshop, hosted by the Fuquay-Varina High School Family and Consumer Sciences Early Childhood Education interns [...]