Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition generally refers to policies and practices that support children’s overall health and safety. This measure helps early learning programs evaluate the multiple influences on a child’s well-being rather than focusing solely on the children’s learning and interactions with teachers.
Professional Learning Resources
This section includes professional learning resources that can help practitioners deepen their understanding of quality for this topic.
Guide
Providers can use this collection of action steps and resources to reduce the impact maternal depression can have on the families they serve. By providing support, resources, and written policies regarding the overall health and safety of children, early learning programs have evidence demonstrating their procedures for supporting the whole child’s development.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
Implementation Tools
In this section you will find tips, strategies, examples, and specific tools and products that can improve your implementation of practices related to this topic area.
Guide
Head Start’s Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC) provides tips to encourage staff to talk to families about depression and offers concrete ways to have those conversations. By providing supports, resources, and written policies regarding the overall health and safety of children, early learning programs have evidence demonstrating their procedures for supporting the whole child’s development.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
