Child Care Health Nurse Consultants
Cindy Trogdon, Child Care Health Nurse, Randolph County Health Department, 318-6164, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Two registered nurses provide training to child care providers regarding sanitation, wellness, and safety issues in the child care setting, and educate parents regarding the importance of regular well-child visits. The nurses visit every child care center four times a year and family day care homes twice a year. The nurses conduct immunization assessments, and developmental, vision, and hearing screenings in child care centers and family child care homes.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP-SACC)
Cindy Trogdon, Child Care Health Nurse, Randolph County Health Department, 318-6164, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
NAP-SACC is an intervention in child care centers aimed at improving the environments, policies and practices of nutrition and physical activity through self-assessment and technical assistance targeting young children ages two to five. Our two Child Care Health Consultants with the Randolph County Health Department work with child care center directors to improve nutritional quality of food served, amount and quality of physical activity, staff-child interactions, and center nutrition and physical activity policy.
Successful Kids
Marlana Hawkins, Randolph County Partnership for Children, 629-2128, ext. 28, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The children with special needs task force has initiated a program called Successful Kids, designed to link preschool children, families, child care providers, primary care providers, and the mental health community to existing resources to address the social emotional development needs of young children. The Successful Kids Program consists of four levels, with each level having a different focus to promote social and emotional development in children. The levels range from a more broad approach with Level l which focuses on classroom environments to a more narrow individualized approach with Level IV.
Preventing Obesity by Design - Improving Outdoor Learning Environments at Randolph County Child Care Centers
Andee Edelson, Child Care Services Program Coordinator, Partnership for Children, 336-629-2128, ext. 30, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
The Randolph County Partnership for Children is one of 10 Partnerships across the state recently selected for a project funded by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina to improve the outdoor learning environments at five child care centers in Randolph County over a three-year period. Precious Memories Preschool in Asheboro is the first center the Partnership is working with on this project. A six-person team from Precious Memories and the Partnership recently attended a two-day workshop in Raleigh to finalize the design. Input from parents and teachers with the center was used to help determine the final plans. Pictured are (from left): Dawn Greene, Precious Memories Preschool director; Mary Jessup, teacher; Dominique Covington; and Sharon Nance, parent. The project is the result of a partnership between the Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University, and the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., funded by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina, Inc.
