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
Nutrition for child care centers
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 [...]
Minnesota child care center the culmination of many forces
This Rising Stars Preschool is ready to shine
The walls of Laura Mitchell’s new preschool are a sunny yellow. The shelves have colorful labels identifying spots for glue sticks and finger paints. The rest of the room, well, that’s kind of a work in progress. There are shelves that need assembling, toys that need organizing and [...]
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 [...]
Vermont Child Care utilizes federal progam for Nutritious Kid’s Meals
Step in the kitchen and meet the (healthy) Lunch-Lady and blogger Erinn Simon
After the visions of huge cans of ketchup and frozen fish sticks vanished, two innovative women began a federally funded food program in a Burlington, VT child care center. It’s one of the first in the area, Burlington Children’s Space Director Sarah Adams-Kollitz [...]
California child care center connects with local high school
Preschoolers were cooking with the ‘big kids’
It was an exciting day for a group of more than 20 children from Calvary Church’s Kiddie Kampus preschool as they had the chance to head to Los Gatos High School for the day and hang with the big kids on. But the 4- and 5-year-olds didn’t just get [...]
North Carolina daycare center helping to fight childhood obesity
A Child’s World of Jamestown, NC is doing its part to fight the rise in childhood obesity.
This North Carolina day care is using a “Preventing Obesity by Design” grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation to create an outdoor natural area to encourage creative, outdoor play. The Guilford County Partnership for Children is working [...]