Let’s Move! Child Care is an initiative to promote five key healthy practices in child care settings: physical activity, screen time, food, beverages, and infant feeding. I am Moving, I am Learning (IMIL) is an intervention program, originally designed for Head Start grantees, that includes in-person training opportunities and a packaged set of resources designed to increase physical activity, structure movement experiences, and improve healthy nutrition choices for children every day. These resources complement each other and share a common goal of reducing childhood obesity. IMIL resources can be used to help providers achieve their action items, especially for physical activity.

This initiative is for all child care settings, both family child care and center-based programs.

We strongly encourage that all early learning programs, including Head Start and military child care programs, incorporate the five Let’s Move! Child Care goals into existing healthy practices and nutrition-related curricula.

Child care providers will receive certificates for their participation in the overall initiative as well as a recognition certificate for achieving the five goals of Let’s Move! Child Care. Additionally, providers will receive certificates of completion for each of the five goal-specific training webinars hosted by Child Care Aware^® of America (formerly NACCRRA). With each completed webinar, participants will also receive certificates via email within 2-3 weeks.

No, however, webinar descriptions and presenter information will be provided to all Let’s Move! Child Care participants and we will be more than happy to work with states who want to grant CEUs or other training hour credits. Note: There are other trainers in addition to Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (CCR&Rs), including Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) coordinators, child care health consultants, and cooperative extension staff.

Let’s Move! Child Care is a web-based interactive initiative. However, (no-cost) print resource materials are available for trainers to download and distribute to local child care providers who do not have internet access.

There are no lead trainers in a state. Any entity that provides training to child care providers can support and train them on the goals and implementation of the initiative. This is an excellent opportunity for CCR&Rs to partner with CACFP sponsors, health consultants, extension offices, community colleges and others.

There are no grants directly associated with the Let’s Move! Child Care initiative. Several states and communities receive federal and private grants for obesity prevention work and some offer grants to providers. Trainers are encouraged to explore who is doing obesity prevention work in their state and community to determine whether these efforts include initiatives for the child care setting. Additionally, trainers can seek funders interested in obesity prevention and request those funds be targeted to this work.

Will child care providers be referred to Child Care Health Consultants, especially those trained in the National Training Institute (NTI) model or nutrition staff supported specifically by Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP) funds at Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (CCR&Rs)?

Coordinating information on training and consultation offered by different organizations would seem a likely role for the local CCR&R unless there is another community organization that plays this role. Child Care Aware^® of America (formerly NACCRRA) is relying on CCR&Rs to provide this type of infrastructure and facilitate collaboration.

The first step is to ensure that state health department staff is aware of the Let’s Move! Child Care initiative and which organizations within the state are participating. Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (CCR&Rs) or Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sponsors can take a leadership role in working with the state’s health department and facilitating communication between states and grantees about potential funding opportunities.

If they‘re doing NAP SACC, they should also participate in Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC) because other resources will be offered that aren’t available in NAP SACC. Screen time and infant feeding are also included in LMCC and not in NAP SACC (or at least not in-depth). NAP SACC does not focus on infants and toddlers whereas LMCC focuses on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

At the end, the provider is able to download and print a PDF copy of the checklist answers and the Action Plan. Encourage providers to print the PDF so you can review their answers with them to better help them achieve their action items successfully.

In order to be recognized as a "Let's Move! Child Care (LMCC) provider," you must meet all five LMCC Goals (or four if you do not provide care to infants). Meeting the LMCC goals means achieving the best practices on the LMCC Checklist Quiz items that are relevant to you based on the age groups of the children you serve. If you serve infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children, you will need to meet a total of 14 best practices. If you only serve infants, you would need to meet two best practices.

Providers who would like to go further can earn additional recognition for completing goal-specific quizzes. Up to five special recognition certificates can be earned, one for each LMCC goal area. Finally, providers can earn the designation of an "LMCC Champion." Achieving the Champion level requires meeting all of the advanced best practices that are contained on the goal-specific quizzes that are relevant to you based on the age group of children you serve.