childcare providers

By Will Humble| November 27th, 2012|Licensing|

It is hard to believe we’re in the 3rd year of our successful Empower Program. As a refresher for those of you that aren’t familiar with Empower, it’s a program that focuses on increasing healthy eating and active living, along with helping to provide smoke-free environments, in licensed child care facilities… reaching over 200,000 children [...]

Building Healthy Chefs @ AZ Pre-schools

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:53-07:00 March 11th, 2011|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity just completed a series of free cooking-based nutrition trainings for childcare providers in Arizona. The Cooking Matters curriculum from Share our Strength, as part of the Wal-Mart Foundation Health Initiatives, gives childcare providers the opportunity to learn how to prepare healthy meals and snacks on a limited budget and [...]

New “Empower” Standards Here

Building Healthy Chefs @ AZ Pre-schools