Session 2 – Healthy Menus: ST10086015. This session focuses on planning a healthy menu. Participants will plan, create and evaluate sample or current menus. Participants will discuss ideas on how to make menus healthier on a budget. Tips will be given to ensure variety and balance. Connection to the health and well-being standards will be discussed. Training is free, participants will receive 2.5 Ohio Approved Step Up hours.
Target audience:
- Early Care and Education Providers
- Agencies and Organizations
Registration information:
To register click here.
For more information, contact: Theresa Henderson at 216-201-2001 ext. 1552 or thenderson@ccbh.net
Session 3 – Healthy Policies: ST10086016. This session focuses on creating a healthier child care environment. Participants will discuss ways to craft an atmosphere where kids can grow, learn, and play at their best. This fun, interactive session provides participants with ideas on how to adopt and implement a new healthy policy successfully. Discussion of setting the tone and culture of wellness for the program will be emphasized. This session has been approved as an elective for the Administrator Credential Level II, Option I. Training is free, participants will receive 2.5 Ohio Approved Step Up hours.
Target audience:
- Early Care and Education Providers
- Agencies and Organizations
Registration information:
To register click here.
Healthy Habits- ST# 10086011. This session focuses on supporting teachers to build healthy habits in early learning environments. This is Part 4. You must attend all four parts to receive credit.
Part 1 – The importance of providing physical activity opportunities in child care settings will be stressed.
Part 2 – The role of how adults support children in feeding and eating will be discussed. Participants will learn basic nutrition and tips on how to encourage new foods in a healthy manner.
Part 3 – Participants will discuss what constitutes a healthy body weight for children. Ideas for healthy growing will be further explored through discussion of how healthy food can be grown in child care settings.
Part 4 – This last session of the Healthy Habits series focuses on strategies to encourage parent outreach.
Training is free, participants will receive 10 Ohio Approved Step Up hours upon completion of ALL FOUR classes in the session.
Target audience:
- Early Care and Education Providers
- Agencies and Organizations
Registration information:
To register click here.
For more information, contact: Theresa Henderson at 216-201-2001 ext. 1552 or thenderson@ccbh.net
OhioGuidestone is one of Ohio’s leading providers of Early Childhood Services that help parents develop their children’s social, emotional, and behavioral skills from ages 0-6 years old. Their suite of programs include counseling and treatment, early childhood and family services, job training, foster care, and addiction recovery for families and children in 11 counties in northern Ohio.
OhioGuidestone, which was founded in 1864 to help care for children orphaned in the Civil War, continues to drive health, well-being and research to advance mental health and meet the needs of families.
- Participants will receive information about OhioGuidestone Early Childhood Mental Health Services
- Participants will review Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact of Toxic Stress on the developing brain
- Participants will learn about a screening and integration effort to promote wellness and increase access to treatment services for young children
Assistant Vice President of Community Counseling
OhioGuidestone
Holli manages all child, adolescent and adult community counseling programs in Cuyahoga County and directs the highly specialized Early Childhood Mental Health program, which incorporates cutting-edge research and innovation in working with families and children ages birth to 6 years who experience trauma and toxic stress. Holli is also a clinical fellow with OhioGuidestone’s Institute of Family and Community Impact, where she serves as a co-investigator on research protocols and evaluates programs and tools for improving child and family outcomes. She is co-author of a neuroscience-based intervention to increase childhood resilience and improve relationships in families. Holli also serves as Chair of the Northeast Chapter of the Ohio Association for Infant Mental Health. Holli earned her Master of Science in Social Administration degree from Case Western Reserve University.Healthy Habits- ST# 10086019. This session focuses on supporting teachers to build healthy habits in early learning environments. This is Part 3. You must attend all four parts to receive credit.
Part 1 – The importance of providing physical activity opportunities in child care settings will be stressed.
Part 2 – The role of how adults support children in feeding and eating will be discussed. Participants will learn basic nutrition and tips on how to encourage new foods in a healthy manner.
Part 3 – Participants will discuss what constitutes a healthy body weight for children. Ideas for healthy growing will be further explored through discussion of how healthy food can be grown in child care settings.
Part 4 – This last session of the Healthy Habits series focuses on strategies to encourage parent outreach.
Training is free, participants will receive 10 Ohio Approved Step Up hours upon completion of ALL FOUR classes in the session.
Target audience:
- Early Care and Education Providers
- Agencies and Organizations
Registration information:
To register click here.
For more information, contact: Theresa Henderson at 216-201-2001 ext. 1552 or thenderson@ccbh.net