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Growing Healthy

Sanford Children’s Growing Healthy program partners with the Sioux Falls Growing Healthy Initiative’s mission is to mobilize the community to assure the health and wellness of the children of the Sioux Falls Area. To implement this strategy the Growing Healthy Initiative seeks to embed services and resources, designed to truly change the culture and actions of community citizens to promote healthy, active lifestyles.

Sanford Children’s C.H.I.L.D. Services, with support for Growing Healthy and Kohl’s Care’s for Kids, has developed a curriculum for child care providers and a curriculum for parents. Each curriculum is a series of 4 classes that help educate providers and parents on the importance of promoting movement and healthy eating habits with children.

Program Goals:

  • Childcare providers will become knowledgeable in promoting a healthy lifestyle for the children in their care.
  • Parents will become knowledgeable in promoting a healthy lifestyle for their children.

Objectives:

  • Increase awareness of the importance of a physically active life style for children.
  • Increase understanding of the importance of a physically active life style for children.
  • Increase ability to provide children opportunities for a physically active life style.
  • Increase awareness of the importance of healthy food choices for children.
  • Increase understanding of making and promoting healthy food choices for children.
  • Increase ability to provide children healthy food choices.
  • Increase awareness of community resources to assist in providing children opportunities for a healthy lifestyle.

To access services contact us at (605) 333-0698 email childsrv@sanfordhealth.org


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Growing Healthy Parenting Classes

The “Healthy Kids Parent Curriculum” is a series of 4 classes that help educate parents on the importance of promoting movement and healthy food choices with their children. Each class will give parents information and tools to help promote a healthy lifestyle with their children. Each class also consists of free posters, games, and activities.

There is no charge for these classes.
Pre-registration is required – call (605) 333-0698 to register.

Class Descriptions:

Healthy Kids = Healthy Adults:     This class will focus on the childhood obesity epidemic, the causes of obesity, and what parents can do to prevent it. We will also focus on the importance of a physically active lifestyle in children

Learning and Movement Go Together:    The class will discuss the relationship between movement and learning from a child’s perspective. Also, parents will understand the positive relationship between movement and learning when promoting and engaging in activities with their children.

Turn Off the Screen:    This class will focus on the relationship between increased screen time (television, DVD`s, computer games, video games) and unhealthy lifestyle in children. Parents will also gain an understanding of the effects of screen time and marketer influence in relationship to the increase of childhood obesity.

Healthy Food Choices Matter:    This class will discuss the importance of parents promoting healthy food choices for their children. We will also give parents tools and ideas on how they can promote healthy food choices for their family.

 For current class schedule click here

9/22/2008

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