Objectives:
To promote health wellness by educating the community about healthy eating habits. To provide the community with the necessary tools to implement proper nutrition in their daily diets.
Goals:
To educate the community on establishing positive eating habits by providing the community with the proper tools to eat healthy.
Child and Adult Care Food Program Objectives:
To establish positive eating habits at the earliest stages of development. To train and support local child care personnel on proper feeding guidelines for children ages 0-12. To reduce future health care and education costs due to lack of proper early development.
Providing children who attend day-cares, preschools and after-school programs with nutritious meals, throughout the areas of:
- Belleville
- Bloomfield
- East Orange
- Irvington
- Maplewood
- Montclair
- Newark
- Orange
- South Orange
- West Orange
Child and Adult Care Food Program Annual Training: