Success of NAP SACC means good health for nation’s children

Spring 2016 Carolina Public Health magazine.

Included in the Spring 2016 Carolina Public Health magazine is a photo of our very own child care health consultant (CCHC) Terri Walls as she plays on homemade drums with children at Ms. Jackie’s Place Family Child Care Home in Craven County, N.C.

The entire Spring 2016 Carolina Public Health magazine is posted at: http://sph.unc.edu/cphm/cph/.

New Be Active Kids trainers!

The latest Be Active Kids train-the-trainer was held Friday, November 13th in Clyde, NC.

Four Child Care Health Consultants attended the training along with the western region CCHC coach, Theresa Stenersen. Picture above, left to right, are Laurel Marshall from Clay county, Janelle Midgett from Haywood county, Elka Gibbs from Macon county and
Meghan Phillips from Graham county - all part of Region A Partnership for Children.

The training was held by Keelin Schneider and the Be Active Kids Clubhouse Team - Swing, Leap, Dart, Blue and Glide.

 For more information about Be Active Kids, contact Keelin Schneider at keelin AT beactivekids.org

And now from Go NAP SACC's facebook page...

Even with the rain, we had too much fun with the wonderful Terri Walls yesterday. She's been using NAP SACC with child...

Posted by Go NAP SACC on Friday, October 2, 2015

Terri Walls RN, BSN, CCHC and Letha Ricks, Quality Enhancement Coordinator, both from Craven County Smart Start, presented A Tisket, A Tasket – Fill your Literary Basket at the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children conference on September 13, 2014. 

The room was packed full of early educators having fun using music and movement to enhance learning through nursery rhymes. The idea for this year’s presentation was to connect movement with literacy and show the importance of this connection to early learning. 

 

This statement tells it all:

Movement and language are both forms of communication and self-expression. Ideas and feelings expressed in words actually begin in the body… Before you write and speak there is a physical response.

 Minton, S. 2003. Using movement to teach academics: An outline for success. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 74 (2): 36-40