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Impact Report

For plan Child Care Provider Education (Otero County)
Date October 28, 2011, 4:04 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report In 2011, provided an educational workshop to 57 child care providers at the Regional Early Care and Education Conference. The educational workshop assists providers in obtaining certificates to meet child care licensing and registration requirements. The workshop focused on how adults can encourage healthy eating and promote physical activity among children. Ideas were provided to child care providers for ways to make food fun and for supporting the physical growth and development in children. Evaluation statistics for the workshop indicate that 75% of participants increased their knowledge of how to choose moderate food portion sizes; 70% of participants increased their knowledge of how to make smart choices from every food group; 65% of participants increased their knowledge of how to eat a variety of foods from the food groups each day for good health; 55% of participants increased their knowledge of how to promote physical activity among children; and 54% of participants increased their knowledge of why physical activity is important for maintaining a healthy body. In addition, 100% of participants reported that they will prepare the recipes they obtained from the workshop for children; 100% of participants reported that the information covered in the workshop was useful to their jobs; and 97% of participants will use the physical activity ideas for children learned from the workshop. Some of the participant comments included: “ I was able to get a lot of ideas and information out of this workshop”, “the class was very entertaining and the instructor was knowledgeable”, “it was a good presentation, I have learned a lot”, “it gave us a lot of good ideas to get our kids eating healthy and exercising right”, and “Educational and useful class that I can use in my day care and my family. I liked how Ms Knight went into detail about how nutrition and physical activity is important to our health! Handouts were very helpful!”