Nutritional health enhances children’s ability to concentrate and learn. The goal of the nutritional services component is to improve the nutritional health of all children and families through nutritional assessments, counseling, and nutrition education for the entire family. The CSI Child Development Services provides nutritious meals – breakfast, lunch and snacks. All menus are developed in accordance with USDA guidelines. Accommodations are made for children with special dietary needs.
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.”
- Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian Designer
Nutrition assessment and counseling services are offered to families under the direction and care of our Nutrition Specialist. Assessment and nutrition counseling services are offered to parents of an child at nutritional risk. This includes children who require any therapeutic diet or are underweight, overweight or anemic.
Nutrition workshops are offered for CSI Child Development Services families. The purpose of nutritional workshops is to educate families about the importance of nutrition and show parents how to offer nutritious food choices for their families. Also, nutrition education is included into the classroom curriculum and discussed as part of the daily lesson plan.
Menus, receipts, nutritional information, and articles on exercise, Five A Day, and are sent home to enhance and expand parents’ knowledge of nutritional needs.
CSI Child Development Services and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) collaborate to share the goal of providing nutrition education. Together, we encourage proper nutrition practices for children and their families.
CSI Child Development Services enhances our curriculum with the I am Moving, I am Learning program to promote more physical activity in the classrooms and children’s home. The program also promotes healthier food choices to help combat childhood obesity.
