HEAS

As a cook or educator working in long day care, you can affect the health and eating habits of children in your care.

By completing this training module you will learn:

• Why healthy eating is important for children
• How long day care services can help children develop healthy eating habits
• How to plan a menu using the Menu planning checklist for long day care
• How to deal with challenges such as food costs and allergies
• How the Healthy Eating Advisory Service can help you

This training module has been designed to take 45-55 minutes to complete. You can progress at your own pace and save and exit after each topic.

A certificate of completion will also be available for you to download once the training module and post module feedback has been completed.

Early childhood education and care service staff are in a unique position to support children's development and growth, and to promote good eating habits.

This module will give you the confidence to:

• introduce foods to children at your service in fun and engaging ways to help deal with food refusal and fussy eating;
• role model healthy eating to the children in your care
• make healthy eating the ‘norm’ not the exception in your room
• reflect on what your centre does to promote healthy eating
• communicate your learnings back to your centre being a champion for change
• promote healthy eating changes to the families at your service.

This training module has been designed to take 45 minutes to complete. You can progress at your own pace and save and exit after each topic. 

A certificate of completion will also be available for you to download once the training module and post module feedback has been completed.

As someone working in outside school hours care (OSHC), you can influence the health and eating habits of children in your care.

By completing this training module you will learn:

• Why healthy eating is important for children
• How OSHC services can help children develop healthy eating habits
• How to assess and modify a menu using the Food and drink checklist for OSHC services.
• How to deal with challenges such as food costs and allergies
• How the Healthy Eating Advisory Service can help you

This training module has been designed to take 45-55 minutes to complete. You can progress at your own pace and save and exit after each topic.

A certificate of completion will also be available for you to download once the training module and post modulefeedback has been completed.