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Feeding hungry minds and bodies®
and breaking the cycle of childhood hunger means making education, nutrition and fitness a lifelong lesson.
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 Once children
reach school age, we can work with and through Ohio schools to connect them with nutritious breakfasts, meals and
afterschool snacks. But the question then remains -- how do we ensure that young children, ages 0-6, have access
to the food, nutrition and education they need to be well-prepared for school? The answer: we partner with child-care providers, helping them build successful child-care businesses on which parents can rely.
In working with child-care providers to expand Ohio children's access to food and education,
we:
- Raise awareness of childhood hunger and its impact on child development, health and learning.
- Increase usage of federal resources that reimburse child-care providers for serving nutritious
meals to children.
- Help child-care providers attract parents and children to their child-care business.
- Offer educational curricula and early learning content to ensure children are better prepared
for school.
- Provide technical assistance, individual and group training to help child-care providers operate
their businesses more efficiently and improve the quality of care they provide.
By empowering child-care providers to feed local children with federal resources, everyone wins:
- Children get the healthy start they deserve, receiving daily nutrition and education to prepare
them for school.
- Federal funds feed local children while strengthening local economies.
- Child-care businesses stay operable longer and serve more kids.
- Parents stretch food dollars further because children have access to low-or-no-cost food in child-care settings.
- Schools win because children are better prepared to excel academically.
- Ohioans win because healthy children are more likely to grow into healthy, productive adults.
Programs include:
Early Childhood
Nutrition
Hungry children are less healthy, less well behaved and have trouble learning. Since literary education and school
readiness are so important in preparing children for success in school, feeding children nutritious, well-balanced
meals in child-care programs lays the groundwork for all future success. Early Childhood Nutrition ensures that
children receive meals that meet the USDA nutrition standards at no cost to the parent. Embedded in this program
are a number of services to support the Family Child-Care provider in their work, including outreach, technical
assistance, nutrition education and oversight to assist the provider in meeting all USDA requirements and working
toward Children's Hunger Alliance's mission.
Early Childhood
Education
Where Early Childhood Nutrition ensures that Family Child-Care providers can provide nutritious, well-balanced
meals for the bodies of our children, Early Childhood Education equips the Family Child-Care provider with training,
inspections and materials so the home may be safe and the activities are educational, age appropriate, and supportive
of feeding hungry minds. This includes technical assistance in setting up and running their home-based business,
professional child-care training, certification and credentialing support, nutrition education and preliteracy
and school readiness training.
For more information on joining Children's Hunger Alliance’s mission in Feeding hungry minds and bodies®
by becoming a Family Child-Care provider for Early Childhood Nutrition & Education, e-mail
or call 614-341-7700, ext. 300 or 800-227-6446, ext. 300.
Click here for our online submission form for Family Child-Care Providers!
Children's
Hunger Alliance and USDA are equal opportunity providers and employers.
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