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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Let's Move! Child Care Training Opportunities
and Resources for CACFP Sponsors Webinar. We're so happy that you joined us today. My
name is Ashton Potter Wright, and I am the Operations Manager for Let's Move! Child Care.
And we have a great Webinar planned for you today, but before we get started I just want
to mention a couple of housekeeping items. As the operator mentioned, we will take questions
at the end of the Webinar, but you can submit questions throughout the Webinar using the
Q&A feature. If you look at the top of the screen, where the cursor is, you should see
the Q&A button, and you can submit your questions here, or you can hold them for the end of
the call and ask them through the operator. We likely won't get to all of the questions,
but we will try our best to answer as many as we can. I'd also like to bring your attention
to several handouts that we have posted for your reference. If you see this button up
here on the top right hand side of your screen with three little pieces of paper called "Handout,"
if you click on that there are several handouts, including the slides for today's presentation,
that you can download at your convenience during the Webinar. So, now on to our agenda.
I will first provide you with a brief introduction and overview of Let's Move! Child Care. And
then I'll turn it over to Jill *** and Claudia Mincemoyer from Penn State University, who
will provide you with an overview of the Better Kid Care training module that features the
Let's Move! Child Care best practices. Andrea Farmer, from USDA, will then highlight some
additional resources of interest from Team Nutrition before we take your questions. We'll
go ahead and get started here. What is Let's Move! Child Care? Let's Move! Child Care,
or LMCC, is one of the sub-initiatives of the First Lady's Let's Move! Campaign and
is a national voluntary web-based initiative that supports child care providers to adopt
best practices for obesity prevention in the early care and education setting. The best
practice areas include: physical activity, screen time, foods, beverages, and breastfeeding
support. Although recent data suggest that overweight and obesity among 2- to 5-year-olds
is declining slightly, 23% of 2- to 5-year-olds are still considered overweight or obese in
the United States. Because obese children are more likely to become obese adults and
because obesity puts children and adults at an increased risk for a host of chronic health
conditions, this remains an important public health problem. It's important to target obesity
prevention efforts at our youngest children because we know that habits form early, and
prevention in elementary school age children is often too late for many. The early care
and education setting represents a tremendous opportunity to reach young children, as child
care has really become the norm in the United States. Approximately 11 million children
spend 30 hours or more per week in care. And as sponsoring organizations you are uniquely
positioned to help educate providers about obesity prevention best practices such as
those promoted by Let's Move! Child Care. So, as I mentioned briefly previously, the
five Let's Move! Child Care goal areas are focused on increasing physical activity, reducing
screen time, improving food and beverage offerings, and supporting mothers in their infant feeding
decisions in the early care and education environment. And it should be noted that the
emphasis of Let's Move! Child Care is really on low cost or no cost and easy to implement
obesity prevention practices. As Jill and Claudia will discuss to you in just a moment,
they've created training modules on each of the five goal areas, in addition to a module
that provides an introduction to and overview of Let's Move! Child Care. So now I'll briefly
share with you the steps a provider should take in order to become a recognized Let's
Move! Child Care provider. The first step is to sign up at www.healthykidshealthyfuture.org,
and by signing up they'll receive our newsletters, new resources, tips, and the latest updates
from the initiative. Providers should look for the Take Action box, highlighted here
on our Web site, this is from the home page of the Web site, and it should be noted that
sponsors can also sign up to receive updates. Once providers are signed up, they can take
the online check list quiz to see which goals they're meeting and which ones they still
need to work toward. The check list quiz is available in both English and Spanish. Providers
can build an action plan to make changes in their program and reach all the best practices
in each of the five goal areas. Action planning is really an important step to help providers
make changes in their programs, but it should be noted that providers really choose the
areas that they'd like to work on as a part of this process. We recommend starting small
and starting with whatever's going to be easiest, and then build on those small successes. Sample
action plans are also available for providers to follow when creating their own action plan
on our Web site. There are a number of free online resources on our Web site to help you
help providers make changes, and I'll highlight a few specific resources of interest in just
a moment. So, once providers have made changes in their program they should come back to
the Web site and re-take the check list quiz and record that they're meeting all of the
best practices. By doing so, they can become a recognized Let's Move! Child Care provider.
Recognized providers earn a provider recognition award, as shown here on the left, and are
showcased on our interactive Let's Move! Child Care map on our Web site. When providers start
to make progress with making changes in their facilities we really encourage them to share
their successes in the form of success stories. Also, if you as a sponsor organization are
working with providers who have implemented changes, we suggest that you share your success
as well. We will feature your story on the Let's Move! Child Care Web site. And these
stories really help inspire other providers and sponsors who are working towards similar
goals. Just to recap, here's the complete process for signing up and participating in
Let's Move! Child Care. Once providers take the quiz they should make an action plan,
make changes, and be sure to come back to the Web site to re-take the quiz to indicate
they're meeting all of the best practices in order to become a Let's Move! recognized
provider. I mentioned the resources earlier, briefly, but now I'd like to highlight a few
of the key sections of our resources. From the main page of our Web site all of the resources
can be found by clicking on the purple "Be Inspired" tab that you see circled here. There
are a number of resources that can be accessed from our Web site, including curricula, training
videos, menu planning ideas, recipes, activity sheets, parent handouts, and much, much more.
So, I strongly encourage you to check those out on our Web site. One of the most relevant
sections of the resource center that I'd like to point out is the free online training page
for providers. Here you'll find a series of archived Webinars, links to useful presentations,
and access to the Let's Move! Child Care online training modules that Jill and Claudia will
highlight in just a moment. Another important resource is the Slide Sets for Trainers section.
Here you will find six off-the-shelf, in-depth slide sets that provide an overview of Let's
Move! Child Care and each of the five goal areas that trainers can use when working with
and training providers. This is just a reminder that all the resources that I've highlighted
today can be found on our Web site at www.healthykidshealthyfuture.org. And if you have any questions or trouble accessing
anything, please feel free to contact the help desk, which is lmcchelp@cdc.gov. Many
of you may already be aware, but the National CACFP Sponsors Association annual meeting
will be held next month, April 22-24 in New Orleans. And if you're interested in learning
more about Let's Move! Child Care there will be a workshop devoted to it at the conference,
so we hope that you'll join us if you're there. And now I will turn it over to Jill and Claudia.
Okay, great. Thanks, Ashton. We were really pleased to be invited to participate in this
Webinar and share a little bit about what we're doing at Better Kid Care and how we
have collaborated with the Let's Move! Child Care initiative. We're having a little trouble
advancing our slides. There we go. Our overall mission at Better Kid Care is really to improve
the quality and care of the educational practices, and we do that by providing professional development
for early care and education professionals, but also for out of school type professionals
caring for school age children. We have a lot of different components to the Penn State
Better Kid Care program. We're going to be talking mostly today about our On Demand self-directed
learning, but I wanted to point out that we also have a lot of print ready professional
development resources, we have instructor modules that are available on our Web site,
we provide a monthly e-newsletter, and we're also involved in social media, we're on Facebook
and Twitter. What Jill and I are going to do is highlight the on demand self-directed
learning that's available from Better Kid Care. And here's just a little information
that you're seeing on the screen about Better Kid Care. In 2011 we launched a new online
learning system that we're calling On Demand. Right now we have more than 140 individual
On Demand, we call them "lessons" or "modules." They provide either one or two hours of professional
development credit, most of them provide two hours, and all of the Let's Move! Child Care
modules provide two hours of professional development. After you've gone through and
taken the lesson you do get a certificate of completion after the assessment, we have
CEUs available after you've completed the lessons, and we're accepted for CDA formal
education hours. And we've also gone through the process of becoming approved for professional
development in many different states, not just Pennsylvania, I think we're up to about
25 now, where we're either approved through state licensing or the QRIS system, the quality
improvement system, in those states. Right now we have users in all 50 states and 25
countries, and more than 42,000 child care providers or early care and education and
school age have completed more than 160,000 lessons. So, we think we're filling a real
need with this online learning for professional development credit. We have a lot of different
topics in the system. You'll see, they're coded there, the topics that we have for early
care and education are on the screen now. We're going to focus today on health, safety,
and nutrition, but we also have online lessons in child growth and development, the environment
and curriculum, family engagement and support, observation and supervision as well, and professionalism
and leadership, and today we're going to focus on the Let's Move! Child Care modules. Everything
that we'll talk about in the Webinar today is available on our Web site, you're seeing
a screen shot of that now, and the button that takes you to On Demand is in the left
margin, that's a blue button that says "On Demand Web Lessons." And we're not actually
live, I have screen shots, but we're going to go through actually logging on and looking
at some of the Let's Move! Child Care lessons. The first thing you do is create a free account.
This is the screen you'll see, you're either a new customer or you already have an e-mail
address and password in our system. It's free to do that. Once you do that you'll come to
the main menu page, and if I could scroll you would scroll that blue scroll bar and
you would be able to look at all 140 lessons, or you can look at the green menu on the left
and you can sort by a lot of different categories. You can look at everything that's new. You
can look at what's in progress, what you've started but haven't completed yet in your
account. You can sort by lesson series or course. You can sort by the CDA code, by our
core body of knowledge, which are the knowledge areas that I showed in the previous slide.
You can sort by those lessons that are just appropriate for school age professionals.
You can also go into the discussion forum. You can look at the lessons that are available
in Spanish. We have, right now, 19 lessons in Spanish, and are completing probably about
25 more. You can also look at what lessons you've completed. What we're going to do today
is click where the blue arrow is, where it says "Lesson Series or Courses," and that's
an easy way to find the Let's Move! Child Care lessons. And when I took this screen
shot we only had two lessons launched for a total of four hours of professional development,
and I think Jill will talk a little bit more, that we now have four lessons in the series
launched. So we would click on the Let's Move! Child Care and you'll see we come to the titles
now, you'll see the four lessons that are available there, the introduction, the lesson
on physical activity, the lesson on screen time, and the lesson in infant feeding. And
what you would do now is select whichever one you wanted to take and it will take you
right to the beginning of the lesson content. And I'll switch slides and then turn it over
to Jill, who's going to talk in a little more detail about the Let's Move! lessons. Okay,
thanks, Claudia. It's a pleasure to be with everyone this afternoon and to have a chance
to tell you a little bit more about the Let's Move! Child Care lessons and our On Demand
system. What you're looking at here is the overview page for the introductory lesson,
and as Ashton and Claudia have said, there are six total lessons. We have the introduction
and then one lesson for each of the five best practice areas. So, at the beginning of each
lesson you're going to have a page like this that gives you the lesson overview and tells
you exactly what you can expect from that lesson, and then beneath that is some basic
lesson information that just gives you an idea about some of the technical aspects of
going through the lesson. And you'll see just below that there's a blue link for a notes
page, and each lesson has that, so that at the beginning the person who's taking the
lesson can click on that and have a notes page available to keep track of anything that
they want to write down or just keep on file that they've learned from the lesson. And
then each lesson has its own specific lesson objectives related to whatever the topic area
is. In each of the lessons we have some of the content that's there in text, but we also
like to use video. And unfortunately, we aren't able to show you any actual video today, but
we did just want to give you a little taste of what you might be seeing in the lesson.
Here is a video that will cover the background information related to obesity incidence,
and each of the videos are going to be varying in length, this one is a short one that's
just three minutes or so long and covers the background information on obesity trends.
We feel like this makes it much more interactive and dynamic. And that way it isn't just a
matter of reading through text, we also have some pictures that are there from best practice
sites as well. This particular video actually shows some footage from the best practice
sites. We were actually able to visit four total best practice sites; three of them were
center-based and one was a family care provider. And the three center-based were in D.C., Delaware,
and Maryland, and then the family-based provider was in Pennsylvania. We've included interview
footage with directors and providers and other staff, who have shared their ideas and the
things that have been successful that they've been able to implement regarding Let's Move!
Child Care in their program, and having been the person that actually was able to make
the site visits, I found it to be tremendously exciting to see how they've been able to implement
the best practices and the steps that they've actually taken to improve the health and well
being of the children for whom they care. And I just want to take a second here to say
that in talking to the directors and the providers, the recurring theme was that Let's Move! Child
Care really provides a wonderful framework, with steps that are very doable, very practical,
and it makes it so that it isn't overwhelming. Because many times it's difficult for providers
and directors to know exactly where to start to implement healthy practices within their
institutions, but this gives them basic, practical, doable steps that can be done in a step wise
fashion, and I think it wasn't as overwhelming as it might have been without that. And I
think the other thing that really works well is that it covers not only programmatic things
that can be done, but there's also environmental and policy areas that can be addressed as
well. And I do just want to mention that in the interview that I had with the family-based
provider, she talked about how important being a part of the food program was in her being
able to implement, particularly serving the healthy foods, that that was very helpful
for her. We also like to provide some reflection activities, and this particular one here is
from the increase physical activity lesson. So what we're asking participants to do is
to think about their own physical activity and to consider ways that they might be able
to improve that. We know that educators and staff are all important role models for the
children for whom they care, and so it's important for them to take a look at how they are doing
in terms of being in that role model position, and then ways that they can make improvements
and also do more with the children to be physically active. And the pictures that you're seeing
on the screen here are from the best practice sites are some great examples of providers
who are being physically active along with the children. We also include video footage
with interviews with experts, and we feel like that's important and interesting, and
provides up to date information for people taking the lesson. You see here Dr. Cole Galloway,
who's doing some really fascinating research with children with limited mobility, and in
the physical activity lesson we have a very interesting interview video with Dr. Galloway,
and also Dr. Craft from SUNY in Cortland, New York, talking about how to include children
with physical limitations in physical activity. And then in the bottom right of this screen
you'll see Karen Foard, who is an international board certified lactation consultant. Her
interview is included in the Support Infant Feeding lesson that was just recently launched,
and she does a wonderful job of giving up to date recommendations, not just for providers,
but things that can also be shared with mothers and other family members within the program.
So we feel like this is a very important part of the lesson as well. At the end of each
lesson we have, in all but one of the lessons we've provided video footage that covers the
resources that are available on the Let's Move! Child Care Web site. And this really
goes into more detail into some of the things that Ashton referred to in her part of the
presentation, all the good resources that are provided through and linked to from the
Let's Move! Web site. So, it's really helpful to give everybody just a little sampling of
what's available there so that when they go to the Web site they know what they're looking
for. The one lesson that doesn't have the video footage goes through that in text format.
There are also additional resources that have been provided and developed here at Better
Kid Care, and so here are two that are found in the Limit Screen Time lesson. One is a
research to practice tip page that's also available on our Web site, but this is linked
to and is available right in the lesson and can be downloaded and shared with parents
and with the staff at the center. It covers some information about the use of technology
and media in child care, and we know that the recommendations for that are changing,
because there's so much more happening in the world of technology and media these days.
There's also a screen time tracker that we've developed, and this is something that can
be downloaded and shared with families as well, because it isn't just what happens within
the child care setting, but what happens at home as well. So we feel like that's an important
thing to highlight. Then at the end of each lesson the participant receives a notice that
they've finished the lesson, and then they have the opportunity to go on and take the
assessment. I'm going to turn it back to Claudia here and she'll tell you more about that part
of the lesson. Okay, thanks for the overview, Jill. Up until this point everything in our
online system for all of the lessons is available at no charge to the user, until this point.
If a person or a participant does want professional development credit they need a Certificate
of Completion, it's at this point where we ask them to pay $5 a lesson. So when we would
click on that blue Begin Assessment button there, it will bring up this screen that you're
seeing now. You have two options to purchase an assessment. You can pay by credit card
for that lesson only, the one you've just completed, or you can purchase multiple lessons
in the form of a prepayment code. So, if you're the one who's responsible for professional
development, you may want to purchase multiple lessons. The system will then give you a code
and you can share that code with the providers or the professionals who are going to actually
take the lesson. By doing that, you also have the option to receive an e-mail every time
someone uses your code, and it will tell you the person's name and which lesson they just
completed, and it will give you an update on your code. So it's a little bit like a
transcript that you're able to go in any time and kind of keep track of who's completed
lessons using your code. This was something we added later because we had a lot of child
care center directors who wanted this feature, and it seems to be working very well. You
can also then go in and re-load your prepayment code, so you would keep the same code. You
would just go in and say I want to purchase additional lessons. And again they're still
at a very reasonable price, at only $5 a lesson. Once you pay the $5, it will take you into
the assessment. This one you see we're on question two, so we've already answered a
question. The question says, "Research shows that obesity may contribute to all of the
following except," and this user selected "sleep apnea." That answer is incorrect. So,
as you can see on the right hand side of the page it says, "Please try again," and if you
need to review lesson information related to the question, you have the option to review
the content. And so if you look where that blue arrow is pointing and you click on the
words "Review Content," it takes you back into the lesson where that concept or question
was talked about. And then you'll see, it's a little difficult to see, but where the arrow
is pointing it says "Return to the Assessment," so after you've re-read that you can return
to the assessment and now you have a chance again to answer that question correctly. You
cannot move on to the next question until you get the answer correct. When you do get
the correct answer, a coaching comment, or a little reinforcing statement comes up, it
says "Correct," and I think you can read that, "New research shows that obesity in childhood
can actually improve cognitive development." So we kind of are reinforcing what they have
just learned, and then they're able to move on to the next question. We also have in some
of the lessons, and in some of the Let's Move! Child Care lessons specifically, a retrospective
assessment where we can look at, it's still self-report, but the knowledge or the attitudes
of the user after they've completed the lesson, and then we ask them to think back to before
they completed the lesson and what did they think. And so that's another new feature that
we're adding to our lessons, is the retrospective. We also have an opportunity for the learner
to type an open-ended response. We asked them to share something that they learned from
the lesson that they plan to use in their program. And this feature has given us some
wonderful, qualitative, narrative comments, and I put a few up on the screen, what users
are saying, and you can read those. I think those are some really impactful statements
that you're looking at about the significance of the role of child care providers and some
of the specifics that they learned, the last one about family style dining. I think these
are going to give us some good feedback on the lessons and where people are learning,
as well as an opportunity for them to think about what they learned and how they might
be able to use it. We have two evaluation questions that are after every lesson. We
ask: how much did you learn, and how much of what you learned will you be able to use
with the children or families in your care? Here I have, when I took this screen shot
you can see we had 105 people at that time who had completed the introduction, and 42
who had completed the physical activity. Right now we have more than that. We've had 239
who have completed the intro, and 110 the physical activity, and then we've added the
other two, so, so far I think there's been almost 375 completions of the lessons. All
of the evaluations have been above 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, you can see the scale at the
bottom, so we're getting pretty good feedback from our participants thus far. When they
finished taking the evaluation, the assessment, and answered all the questions correctly,
they have the option now to go back to the lesson information screen. And it's from this
screen that they are able now to either, you can see the status of the lesson is completed,
they could go back in and review the entire lesson again, but the user is not allowed
to take the assessment again. They can't get a certificate for taking the lesson twice.
You can display or print your certificate. You can have the certificate e-mailed to you
if your printer isn't set correctly. We also, we're not going to talk too much about it,
but you do have the opportunity, once you complete a lesson, to join a discussion forum
with other learners, and that's moderated by staff here at Better Kid Care. Act 48 is
for Pennsylvania school teachers, and you can also request CEUs, or you can go back
to the lesson list and select another lesson. This is the professional development certificate
that you can either print or have e-mailed to you. It has a description. It has the number
of hours. It has the CDA code. It also has, if you look in the lower left corner, this
one says "Washington Content Areas," we're doing some specific coding for specific states
and once we've been approved then they have specific content codes or something that's
unique to their system and we've been able to put that on our certificates as well. This
is the CEU form. You can download it from our Web site. Ten hours of lessons equals
one CEU. We try not to process these for anything less than a half a CEU. There is no charge
for us to process the CEUs. The $5 lesson fee will cover the CEU as well. This is, again,
a screen shot of our Web site, and you can see the On Demand Web lessons, and that's
what we just featured. Off to the right there's a link that says, "Health, Safety, and Nutrition,"
and if you click there you'll be able to see all the resources that are available around
health, safety, and nutrition topics, research to practice tip pages, there's lunch ideas,
snack ideas, lots of resources, so I would encourage you to look. We're not going to
spend time today exploring that. And then I would say we're also on Facebook and Twitter,
so you can follow us, you can join us, like our page. We do a lot of announcements through
Facebook about new lessons. We also have an e-newsletter that you can sign up to receive
monthly as well. I think that's all for us. We're going to wait until Andrea's finished
to take questions. So, I will turn it over now to Andrea Farmer. Thank you, Claudia,
and welcome, everyone. I'm sure that many of you are already familiar with Team Nutrition
and our resources. One of the things I want to show you today is how USDA supports CACFP
by also making available materials from lots of other sources, including resources for
incorporating physical activity in child care settings. Team Nutrition is supported by the
USDA's National Agricultural Library, which maintains a Healthy Meals Resource System,
and you can see the home page for that here. This is a great Web site that provides hundreds
and hundreds of resources for many different agencies and organizations. To hone in on
resources related to child care, you can click the link on the right hand side and go to
the CACFP Wellness Resources for Child Care Providers. This pulls together resources available
in the whole Healthy Meals Resource System, but it pulls out those that are more for child
care providers and CACFP. So you see that there are tabs here related to nutrition,
physical activity, electronic media use, and also there are tab sections that just show
how to create healthy child care environments. So for today we're going to focus on physical
activity and what's available in that section of this Web site. When you click on physical
activity you'll see that there's two sub-sections: Maintaining an Active Environment, and Activities
and Tools. When you click on Maintaining an Active Environment, that will then take you
to the number of resources under that section. And these are typically guidance materials
and curricula to help centers or homes set up and maintain programs that include physical
activity. So you'll see near the top that it does include a link to the Let's Move!
Child Care, and at the bottom I just want to point out that another thing that we have
on here are links to various trainings that are available. So, this particular one is
Bright Futures, and after today I will make sure that we have some links to take you to
the Better Kid Care trainings. Then the second sub-section, Activities and Tools, when you
click on this you see that this is really actually more hands-on activities that providers
can use with children. So, again, all of those resources available on the Healthy Meals Resource
System can be downloaded for free, and this gives you the Web site that you can go to,
to find it: healthymeals.nal.usda.gov. Moving on, just to point out a couple of things about
our Team Nutrition materials, this is our Team Nutrition home page. It has changed over
the last couple of months if you haven't been on it recently. From the home page you can
go to our resource library, which lists out all of the materials available from Team Nutrition.
So, when you click on that page and you see Team Nutrition Resources, you have to scroll
down to see what's available. And there are two pages, it's all in alphabetical order,
so you can scroll through to find what you're looking for. Now, how do you get the Team
Nutrition resources? Well, everything on the Team Nutrition Resource Library is again available
to download for free, and that Web site is teamnutrition.usda.gov. From the Team Nutrition
Resource Library you can click on whatever it is that you're interested in, so if we
look at "Nutrition and Wellness Tips for Young Children," our provider handbook for the CACFP,
clicking on that will bring you to a page that gives you the details about that particular
resource. So, hopefully all of you are familiar with this resource already, it's been out
for a while, but if you're not I want to encourage you to, after I go through and tell you how
you can order it, I want to encourage you to go ahead and either download the PDF or
order a print copy. Okay, and as you click further on that page this shows you all the
different PDFs that are available that are the individual sections of that particular
resource. So you would go through and, again, these are all downloadable PDFs so you can
pick what you want. I also wanted to highlight that there are four sections of this resource
that have to do with physical activity and also limiting screen time. Now, you'll notice
up above there, where it has "Available on PDF," in this case it also says that a free
print copy is available. Some of the resources on our Web site are only available as PDFs
and then some of them are in PDFs and also available in print copies. If you want to
order a print copy, they can be ordered online using the resource order form that is found
at the Team Nutrition Web site, or through the Web site for NTIS (http://tn.ntis.gov/),
which is the warehouse that manages our resources. And I just want to point out that print materials
from Team Nutrition are free to anyone that participates in a Child Nutrition Program,
so a child care center, family child care providers, sponsoring organizations, you may
order these materials for free if you participate in CACFP. And back on our Team Nutrition Web
site, on the left you would click on Resource Order Form and that would pull up the form
for you to be able to order materials online. Now, there is a quantity limit on ordering
from the Resource Order Form, but sponsoring organizations and state agencies can order
our materials in bulk. So, if you want to order more than it says that you can on the
order form, you can e-mail us at teamnutrition@fns.usda.gov and we will be happy to supply what you need.
We encourage sponsors to order these materials in bulk and use them for their homes and centers.
So, once again, to contact Team Nutrition about any information or questions or to order
materials you can contact us at teamnutrition@fns.usda.gov. Now we're going to open up the session for
questions and answers, so we first want to check with the operator about taking questions
over the phone. Thank you. (Operator instructions) One moment, please for the first question. Your first question comes
from the line of Miqueas Gomez. Please go ahead. Good morning. Hi, I was wondering if
you get certified as a group, like as a sponsor you can certify a group of people all taking
and completing a course, or lessons in bundles, or it has to be individual? I'm assuming you're
talking about the Better Kid Care lessons. They have to be done individually. Everyone
has their own account and in order to receive a certificate they have to log on individually
and have their own account. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Your next question comes
from the line of Karen Lam. Please go ahead. I'm sorry, I have the same question as the
person who just called. Thank you. Okay. It is possible that you could do lesson as a
group, but then everyone would still need to log on individually and take the assessment.
You could review content as a group. Your next question comes from the line of Susan
Arthur. Please go ahead. Yes, I'm wondering if the Better Kid Care On Demand CEU is approved
in California. We are not approved in California. We had a lot of difficulty navigating the
system, although we have users from California. Okay, thank you. Someone also asked about
approval in Oregon, we've not sought approval in Oregon. Most of the time we will be listed
on the state licensing Web site if they have put us on that site. If not, feel free to
e-mail me to ask if your state is one of the approved states. We haven't sought approval
in all states yet. We're working through that. CEUs, I think are approved nationally. We're
talking about approval through state licensing or the QRIS system. Ohio, we are approved
in Ohio. We're approved in Ohio. We have not sought approval in D.C., but we are approved
in Maryland, so I'm not sure about that one. And at this time there are no further questions
from the phone lines. Katherine asked: "If you buy a number of quizzes
do we give the family care provider the authorization numbers?" If you're pre-purchasing lessons,
yes, you would give them the pre-payment code and then indicate which lessons you would
like them to complete. Amanda, you asked if we're approved in Washington. Yes, we are
-- or Wisconsin, yes. Linda asked about the cost for a CEU. I'll repeat that, there is
no additional cost for processing the CEUs through Penn State. Are we approved in New
Hampshire? We are in the process of approval in New Hampshire. We're in the process of
approval in New York. Sandy, you asked is there an additional cost? No, the cost is
for the professional development certificate, so there is no additional cost. Montana, we
have not sought approval yet. I'm looking at my list. In Tennessee we're approved through
licensing, so yes, we are approved. Florida, we're definitely approved. Illinois, we are.
Did I miss any of the states there? Texas. Texas, we have not sought approval because
they do have a state online system through cooperative extension. So we do have users
from Texas, we just haven't gone through the process there. We are approved in Illinois,
yes. What might be helpful is I can e-mail out the status of our approvals to people
who are on the call today. I think that might be helpful. Claudia, this is Andrea. Can I
jump in and answer the question that came up? Sure. Somebody apparently tried to order
some of our Team Nutrition materials in bulk and e-mailed the address and said they never
received a response. Our general procedure is that you would receive a response when
you e-mail Team Nutrition, that mailbox, so I apologize that you didn't get a response.
You see the slide that's up now with my name and my e-mail address, if you will forward
me a copy of your e-mail that you sent to Team Nutrition, I can check into it for you
and make sure that it is being processed. But, in general you should receive a response,
and the person that handles it is usually very good at that, but sometimes we do have
lapses if people are gone, so I would just recommend for anyone that if you don't get
a response back, go ahead and follow up and see if the order is being processed. Thank
you. We have a couple more questions coming into the queue here. Someone asked about the
QRIS approval in Ohio. Our online lessons in Ohio can be used to meet 10 hours of general
licensing, but right now Ohio's Step Up to Quality system does not accept online professional
development. The On Demand lessons do not need to be completed all at once. You can
start and then when you go back in the system remembers where you were in that particular
lesson. CEUs, we've not sought approval in Massachusetts yet. Andrea, there's another
question there for you as well. Yes, I see that about the average turnaround time for
delivery when ordering bulk orders for a sponsoring organization. We generally say to allow between
two and four weeks delivery time. If you really need something sooner, we can try to put a
rush on it. But generally we like to have at least two to four weeks advanced notice
for a bulk order. We see a question about how do you find out about a state that's in
the process of being approved, when that gets approval. We're hopeful that we're listed
on the state licensing or their QRIS system. Otherwise, we have not really put a general
announcement about that on our Web site, but are considering doing that as well. We really
let the states do the promotion. But it's a very good question and we're considering
putting a listing on our Web site. Someone said, can we obtain a copy of the presentation?
I believe that the Webinar is being recorded, as well as you can download the slides up
in the handout section of the presentation. Katherine, I'm not sure if I understand your
question. "If a provider takes notes or gives ideas can they print out the answers so they
can save these?" Maybe she means on the notes pages, which, yes, that's possible to download
that and print it out. Do we have any other calls on the phone? No questions from the
phone lines. Okay. Chantel said, "Do you approach the state for approval of trainings, or does
the state have to approach you?" How we've done that, we've approached the states and
we have some funding through the Department of Defense where they have identified 13 states,
and we've just recently added 4 more, so those are the states we started with, and then we've
continued and as we work through some of the different processes in the states we're adding
more. So that's how our initial grouping was identified for us in states with military
rich communities. Kansas is approved. Yes, we have users from Kansas. Andrea, do you
know where the My Plates can be purchased? There's a question about - I do not. No, that's
not a Team Nutrition resource. We don't make plates like that. But I would suggest going
to the myplate.gov Web site. It is through USDA, just not through Team Nutrition. Okay.
A question about, "I was never able to see the video." I'm guessing you mean you couldn't
see the presentation and listened on the phone. "What is the Web site for the assessment?"
I'm assuming you maybe mean for the Better Kid Care On Demand. If you just Google Better
Kid Care, that's probably the easiest way to do it. The next question asks about suggestions
for healthy celebration for children. And Ashton, maybe you can think of a specific
resource that's on the Web site, but I know that several of the links that are there would
take you to places that would offer information about that. Yes, I would suggest going to
the Let's Move! Child Care Web site and clicking on the purple Be Inspired tab, and I believe
we have several ideas for healthy celebrations under the Nutrition section. Okay, and Paula
you asked: "How long after you complete a training do you have to purchase a certificate?"
Really, indefinitely you could complete the training and then go back in at any time and
take the assessment and receive your certificate. And you don't pay the $5 fee until you're
ready to take the assessment. We have about three more minutes, if anyone has additional
questions. Or, if we missed yours, please type it in again. I see someone did answer
about the My Plate plates. I believe it's Learning ZoneXpress and beBetter Health both
have plates, so those would be plates for purchase. There was also a question about engaging staff in child care
centers. And I think some of the information that's within the lessons would be helpful
in that regard. I think that's a great question because it's very important to have the staff
be bought in, whether they're the food service directors or the providers, everybody can
have a part in being a role model. And so there are some activities that are included
in the lessons to help encourage the staff to do that. And one more update on the plates.
Apparently Walmart has plastic, reusable My Plate plates. Oklahoma, we have not sought
approval through licensing. Ricki asked that question. A question from Paula: "Can you
pay for all the certificates at one time for each person?" You can pre-pay for as many
lessons as you want at a time and you'll get one code. You won't get a separate code for
each person, so you would need to monitor that internally if you give the code to more
than one person. "Where can the recording of this meeting be found?" I believe Ashton
is going to send it out. Ashton, is that correct? Yes, and it will also be posted, so a Webcast
is being recorded of this Webinar, and in a couple of weeks we will have it posted to
our healthykidshealthyfuture.org Web site. So, specifically under the Free Online Trainings
for Providers section, there's a Webinar section there and it will be archived there. Katherine,
you asked: "Is there a place where we can show the states that we were pre-paying these
lessons?" Yes, you'll get a receipt. You will be e-mailed a receipt that will tell you what
was charged to your credit card. And if you have any questions about pre-purchasing, feel
free to call or e-mail me and we can work through that. Great, well, it looks like we're
just about at the end of the hour. I want to thank you all for joining today. Again,
our contact information is on this last slide, of all the presenters who spoke today. And
just a reminder to please be sure and check out this Handout section in the top right
corner of your screen, you can download the slides for today's presentation, as well as
some other important handouts that we've posted for you there. So, again, thank you for joining,
and we hope you have a wonderful rest of the day.