We work with partners to create a healthier North Carolina where healthy eating and active living is the norm. We work to connect communities with proven programs, tools and resources, including:
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Overview
Our Physical Activity and Nutrition (PAN) Connections Initiative supports state and local efforts to address physical activity and nutrition, specifically focusing on the following strategies:
- Food Service Guidelines
- Interventions Supportive of Breastfeeding
- Activity-Friendly Routes to Connect Everyday Destinations
- Early Care and Education Nutrition and Physical Activity Standards
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Food Service
CCCPH supports nutrition by implementing food service guidelines in community settings to promote and increase consumption of healthier foods and beverages.
- Healthy Food Access Pantry Training Program
- CDC Food Service Guidelines
- Food Service Guidelines for Federal Facilities
- Strategies for Food Service and Nutrition Guidelines
- Healthy Eating Research Nutrition Guidelines for the Charitable Food System
- Food Service Guidelines Implementation Toolkit
- Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP)
- Healthier Food Donation Guidelines for Retailers and Distributors
- Consider Cultural Food Preferences
- NC Online Food Service Guidelines Assessment Tool — Preview
- NC 10% Campaign
- Additional Resources
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Breastfeeding
CCCPH supports nutrition by promoting breastfeeding support in clinical settings, worksites, childcare settings and communities.
Breastfeeding Peer Counselors in Outpatient Clinics
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Activity-Friendly Routes
CCCPH supports physical activity by partnering with community organizations and local governments to promote improvements in community design that connect activity-friendly routes with everyday destinations to increase access to places for physical activity for people of all ages and abilities.
- Active People Healthy Nation
- Active Routes to School
- The Community Guide Physical Activity: Built Environment Approaches Combining Transportation System Interventions with Land Use and Environmental Design
- Community Design Resources
- Connecting Routes + Destinations
- Fact Sheet: Supporting Health Equity Through the Built Environment
- Implementation Resource Guide
- Move More Walk Now
- National Center on Healthy, Physical Activity and Disability- Resources
- North Carolina Guide to Incorporating Health Considerations into Comprehensive Plans
- Plan4Health NC: Planning for a Healthier North Carolina
- Shared Use by North Carolina Faith-based Organizations
- Shared Use of School Property in North Carolina: The Role of Unorganized Recreation
- Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities
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Early Care and Education
CCCPH supports physical activity and nutrition by working with early care and education systems to implement and integrate physical activity and nutrition standards into practice.
- ACEs Too High
- Breastfeeding-Friendly Designation
- Caring for Children: Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs
- Center for Environmental Farming Systems
- Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
- Child and Adult Care Food Program: Food to CACFP
- Child and Adult Care Food Program: CACFP Reimbursement Rates
- Child and Adult Care Food Program Training Tools
- Color Me Healthy
- Division of Child Development and Early Education
- First 2000 Days
- Go NAP SACC
- Healthy Kids, Healthy Future
- Integrating Healthy Opportunities for Play and Healthy Eating (I-HOPE)
- NC Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center
- Shape NC
- The Center for Training and Research Translation Guide
Farm To ECE
A success story of Farm To ECE implementation at the Kiddie Academy of Wilmington, NC.