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MINNESOTA HEAD START Growing Strong, Smart Kids through Healthy Eating and Active Play Minnesota Born to Thrive Summit, December 9, 2014 Why Nutrition is a Critical Focus In 2014, Minnesota Head Start provided nutrition services to 16,573

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MINNESOTA HEAD START Growing Strong, Smart Kids through Healthy Eating and Active Play

Minnesota Born to Thrive Summit, December 9, 2014

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Why Nutrition is a Critical Focus

In 2014, Minnesota Head Start provided nutrition services to 16,573 children, including:

 Feeding 14,500 children served in center-based or

child care partnerships

 Identifying nutrition-related health concerns:

665 underweight and 4,776 overweight or obese*
2,593 needed dental treatment
220 children with anemia
116 with high blood lead levels
16 children with diabetes

(*at enrollment according to 2000 CDC BMI-for-age growth chart)

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Head Start Performance Standards Child Nutrition; 1304.23

 Identification of children’s nutritional needs.  Offering nutritional services to children  Providing meal service  Offering family assistance with nutrition, including

pportunities to assist families with food

preparation and nutritional skills.

 Ensuring food safety and sanitation

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Head Start Performance Stardards Family Partnerships; 1304.40

 Assisting families to access community services and

resources including emergency food, housing, clothing and transportation

 Providing services to pregnant women who are

enrolled in other programs serving pregnant women, infants and toddlers

 Involving parents in program design and

management

 Involving parents in child development and

education

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INNOVATIONS IN DELIVERING NUTRITION THRU CACFP

 Scratch cooking kitchen  Food is purchased locally when

possible

 Serves Head Start, Migrant

Head Start, and Boys & Girls Club of Rochester children

 Serves breakfast, lunch,

afternoon snack, and dinner

 Serves between 500-1,000

meals daily

 3 full-time kitchen staff members

THE PLACE, CCR&R-Rochester

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Goals for Expanding Rochester’s “From Scratch” Program

Purchasing

Milk Local Food distributor HyVee/Sa m's

 Continue to work with local

producers

 Keep expanding menus and

ffering new things to the

children and families we serve

 Encourage families and local

day care facilities to start cooking more from scratch and purchasing locally grown foods, or growing their own food

 Find ways to get children

involved in the process

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FARM TO HEAD START - St. Paul

Partnership of : Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington County Head Start (CAPRW- Head Start) Hmong American Farmers Association Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) CKC Good Foods Russ Davis Wholesale

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Involving Children from Farm to Table

 Head Start children, followed

a curriculum featuring locally grown seasonal vegetables, sampled fresh produce -- and visited the actual farm where the vegetables were grown.

 Russ Davis Wholesale ensures

the locally grown produce meets all food processing standards which allows it to be purchased for preparation in the Head Start Centers who are then able to bill for CACFP reimbursement.

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SOS COOKING MATTERS - Glenwood

Partnership of: West Central Minnesota Community Action – Head Start Minnesota Cooperative Extension – Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters United Way of Douglas and Pope Counties Chef Don Sorby, Volunteer Sandy Majerus- Lieser, Douglas County Hospital , Volunteer

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SOS Exploring Food Together – Mpls.

Parents in Community Action Head Start training interns and staff to:

 Food Identification and

Tasting: Name That Food

 Food Purchasing: Supermarket

Hot and Cold

 Food Preparation: Imaginary

Cooking

 Food Origins: We Eat Tops

and Bottoms!

 Food Culture: Exploring

Tables Around the World

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Engaging Parents in Nutrition – Mpls.

Parents in Community Action Head Start involves parents in:

 menu planning to ensure

family support and cultural acceptance

 food service training in

their CACFP kitchens to

ffer skills and job

training

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Early Head Start/Child Care Partnerships

 Federal announcement

f EHS/CC Partnership

Grants tomorrow!

 $5 million for MN,

serving up to 300 new infants and toddlers in child care settings

 New partners to

explore CACFP expansion

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Contact me at: Gayle Kelly, Executive Director Email: gayle@mnheadstart.org Phone: 218-728-1091