About Our Teams

Nemours Florida Prevention Initiative

Our Goal: Helping Children Grow Up Healthy & Ready to Learn

To advance children’s health, Nemours extends health prevention efforts into the communities it serves.

The Nemours Florida Prevention Initiative works with the community to share healthy lifestyle messages with children and families. Targeted health promotion and disease prevention programs help child care providers, educators, health professionals, and community advocates teach children and their families positive health habits that can last a lifetime.

Our Programs:

• Engage Nemours experts to help the community provide healthy environments where children live, learn and play.
• Collaborate with community partners to share resources to promote healthy lifestyles in children’s health care.
• Guide early childhood programs to achieve best practices that promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Evaluate and conduct research to generate new knowledge that leads the advancement of children’s health promotion.
• Advocate for social, environmental and behavioral change where even small steps can make a big difference today, and far into the future.

Young Children Can Have Fun While Learning About Healthy Eating

Early childhood is a period when children learn lifelong habits. Nemours Florida Prevention Initiative partners with early childhood experts to provide interactive ways for child care providers to teach healthy eating and physical activity to children.

Remarked one child care provider, “The children were at lunch and were telling me which foods were an 'anytime' food and which were a 'sometimes' food. It was so incredible to see the children discussing this.”

A child care director commented, “Parents are mentioning that children are coming home talking about fruits and vegetables.”