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Table 2 Happy nutrition intervention core and elective modules and provider learning objectives

From: Interventions to promote healthy environments in family child care homes in Oklahoma—Happy Healthy Homes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Modules

Provider learning objectives

Core modules

 SMART goals

• Describe specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely (SMART) goals

• Practice writing a SMART goal

• Develop a SMART goal for the family child care home (FCCH) for each subsequent module

 Why met best practices

• Identify Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) best practices and their importance for nutrient intake

• Identify barriers and possible solutions to meeting CACFP best practices

 Portion distortion: what is the right size?

• Recognize age-appropriate portion sizes

• Identify appropriate preschool portion sizes

 Staff behaviors: leading the way for healthy eating

• Understand positive role modeling for child feeding behaviors

Elective modules

 

 A fluid situation

• Understand differences in juice and whole fruit and importance of milk and water

• Identify different ways to serve fruit and increase water intake

 Begin with breakfast

• Recognize importance of breakfast for child wellness

• Learn alternative breakfast ideas to meet best practices

• Identify solutions to common breakfast challenges

 Cooking across the rainbow

• Recognize importance of having a colorful plate

• Learn nutrients associated with different colors

• Describe ways to include more colorful fruit and vegetables in child meals

 Getting children in the kitchen

• Recognize benefits of cooking with children

• Know how to prepare food with children

• Incorporate child-friendly tasks into meal preparation

 Gardening

• Describe benefits of gardening

• Identify materials necessary to start a garden

• Plant a simple indoor herb garden

 Menu and meal planning

• Recognize importance of planning meals ahead of time

• Learn steps to effective meal planning

• Review menu and enhance for nutritional balance

• Identify food buying strategies to save time and money

 Picky eaters, food allergies, and aversions

• Understand differences between picky eater, allergies, and aversion

• Learn signs of food allergies

• Identify ways to encourage picky eaters

 Understanding nutrition facts and how to read a label

• Learn components of a nutrition label

• Decipher nutrition fact labels from foods in their home

• Learn how to purchase foods for optimal nutrient density