KinderCare Learning Companies
2018 Progress Report
Committed to a number of changes involving center menus and nutrition programs, including removing all grain-based desserts from 100 percent of their centers, incorporating at least one culturally diverse dish each week a vegetarian entrée twice per week on their standard menu, ensuring healthy options are offered during all holiday events and celebrations, integrating parent education into the KinderCare Cooking Academy and developing a nutrition training curriculum for Center Directors and Cooks. Additionally, KinderCare plans to assess current garden offerings at centers, develop a package of new scalable indoor and outdoor gardening options and share best practices for gardening initiatives in early childhood education.
Verified Results
Partner Statement
“KinderCare Education, including our KinderCare Learning Centers, KinderCare at Work, and Champions brands, is a proud partner of Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA). As the nation’s largest provider of high quality early childhood education, our partnership with PHA reflects the leadership role we have in the industry and reinforces our longstanding commitment to using our voice to support young children and their families throughout our country. By removing juice and fried foods from our menus and serving well-balanced meals and snacks, serving food family-style, limiting screen time and emphasizing physical activity, we are able to teach and model healthy habits for the more than 185,000 children in our centers and sites. We continue to engage parents in meaningful conversations about the importance of nutrition and highlight seasonal recipes and tips for cooking at home for parents. In addition, our curriculum includes a section dedicated to healthy eating and physical activity. KinderCare Education’s relationship with PHA supports our Grow Happy initiative and inspires us to continually improve our programs, policies, and procedures to better serve our children, create lifelong learners, and support the development of healthy habits for life.”