Progress 03/01/16 to 02/28/17
Outputs
Target Audience:On February 11 and 12, 2016, Nemours Children's Health System, with many supporting partners including W.K. Kellogg Foundation, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The American Heart Association, Penn State Better Kid Care, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, Kaplan Early Learning Company, and, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, again convened the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future 2016 Summit. While the group celebrated its mutual successes, the focus of the summit was to identify opportunities to accelerate and leverage existing work and identify collective next steps to ensure that all children in ECE settings grow up healthy. To accomplish this goal, the summit focused on engaging key thought leaders, researchers, practitioners and policy makers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Penn State Better Kid Care and Nemours are also developing an online learning module for family child care providers. This learning module will focus on the opportunities and barriers related to healthy eating and physical activity in the family child care setting, including equity, which was an important topic of discussion during the Summit. This module, which we anticipate will count for approximately two hours of provider professional development, is expected to be completed in early 2017. We hope to release it to our networks in February, to coincide with the one year anniversary of the Summit. The module features Debbie Chang, Dianne Ward, Eduardo Sanchez, Blake Stanford, Lynette Fraga, and Carol Scott, all presenters at the Summit. The title is Family Child Care: Advancing Healthy Practices for a Healthy Future. Additionally video interviews with experts and reserachers who attended the conference were recorded and have been used in several of Better Kid Care's online training modules. (e.g. Bill Dietz in module on adverse childhood experiences; Diane Craft on physical activity) How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Since the Summit we worked with a writer and graphic design firm to create an Action Plan that includes the Summit Proceedings, the action items identified throughout the Summit, areas for further engagement, and ways that we can spread, scale and accelerate the work we are currently doing and what we hope to do in the future. We also contracted with a videographer to create a series of videos featuring the Summit sessions as well as a seven minute highlight video describing the impetus behind our work. Links to both the final Action Plan and videos can be found on the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Summit website:https://youtu.be/GWzkBGYZpCw?list=PLFFjM-sTdkAclMFtx6msimj6D5VoFAarr. In addition, hard copies of the Action Plan and links to the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future YouTube channel, where the Summit videos are hosted, were shared with Summit attendees and throughout our ECE networks with the request that this information be shared widely. (The HKHF You Tube channel is accessible at: https://healthykidshealthyfuture.org/healthy-kids-healthy-future-2016-summit/agenda/.) Nemours is also working with the IOM Roundtable ECE Innovation Collaborative to develop a webinar series--two webinars for state and local officials, two for early childhood educators in local programs, and one for all audiences--sharing interventions that move through national, state, and local levels to be implemented in programs. Though each of the webinars will describe actions for promoting child health in ECE settings, many of the topics were identified as areas needing further exploration during the Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Summit. The first of the webinars was held in November and the rest will occur monthly from January through April 2017. Finally, we have been working with our Healthy Kids, Healthy Future Steering Committee to apply the actionable items and lessons learned from the Summit. We are challenging Committee members to think critically about how to identify and create new partnerships and extend their networks within the areas they currently serve. For example, in early November we held a panel session of Steering Committee members who are all doing childhood obesity prevention work in North Carolina. They described the state-specific facilitators and barriers to partnering and we asked the other Committee members to begin to adapt the North Carolina model in their own geographies. We aim to continue these discussions of partnering to leverage one another's work throughout 2017. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The focus of the summit was to identify opportunities to accelerate and leverage existing work and identify collective next steps to ensure that all children in ECE settings grow up healthy. To accomplish this goal, the summit focused on engaging key thought leaders and policy makers to (1) increase attendees' knowledge and raise awareness of innovative programs and initiatives, and (2) help foster and strengthen new and existing collaborations so that promising practices in health promotion and obesity prevention can be spread, scaled, and sustained through collective action. Seven areas were identified representing the highest priorities for strategic action. While not comprehensive, the list provides a starting point for identifying specific actions and steps that individuals and/or their organizations can take to help support the health of children, families, and ECE professionals. Details of this Action Plan are outlined in conference proceedings. Briefly, the top seven strategic areas for action are: 1. SUPPORT ECE PROFESSIONALS through professional development, technical assistance, and promotion of staff wellness. 2. Encourage and support FAMILY ENGAGEMENT. 3. Develop and disseminate strong, positive, and consistent MESSAGES. 4. Strengthen and promote state and local LICENSING and QUALITY RATING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEMS adoption and expansion. 5. PARTNER between and across providers, organizations, and agencies. 6. Develop and implement, in collaboration with others, INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS to tough problems. 7. Examine, evaluate, and discuss individual and organizational BIASES and INEQUITIES. (see conference proceedings for complete conference findings and action plans at: https://d3knp61p33sjvn.cloudfront.net/2016/09) .
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Nemours Foundation (2016). Healthy Kids, Healthy Future: Opportunities for Action. Healthy Kids, Healthy Future 2016 Summit. Available on the web at: https://d3knp61p33sjvn.cloudfront.net/2016/09/HKHF_2016_Summit_Action_Plan_FINAL.pdf
|