This resource highlights how existing family child care licensing provisions are addressing, or not addressing, cultural competency.

This publication outlines the benefits, best practices, considerations and legal requirements of breastfeeding with an emphasis on childcare providers.

This resource identifies Farm to Child Care activities that can be pursued year-round, including links to activities and other resources.

Child care providers are in a unique position to address the childhood obesity epidemic and tobacco-related health hazards. The Public Health Law Center has developed a series of resources designed to inform and support Kansas efforts to cultivate child care settings that promote healthy eating, positive exercise habits, and reduced screen time environments. This fact sheet outlines existing child care laws in Kansas dealing with these subjects.

This Kansas map provides a snapshot of the number of child care facilities operating in Kansas on March 13, 2014, based on information from the NACCRRAware database.

This fact sheet describes how Chicago has used its regulatory authority over child care services to improve nutrition and physical activity standards with child care settings.

The Public Health Law Center has developed a 50-state analysis of child care licensing laws, including state statutes and licensing regulations, including local authority to regulate the child care setting.

This fact sheet outlines how food safety standards intersect with the child care setting.

This fact sheet outlines important information relating to the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

This fact sheet outlines how voluntary standards and quality ratings can be used to promote nutrition and active play in the child care setting.

The Public Health Law Center is in the process of assessing state laws and regulations related to the child care setting through an existing grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research program. The statutes and regulations included in this chart were compiled according to a protocol developed to implement this project.

Child care providers are in a unique position to address the childhood obesity epidemic and tobacco-related health hazards. The Public Health Law Center has developed a series of resources designed to inform and support Minnesota efforts to cultivate child care settings that promote healthy eating, positive exercise habits, reduced screen time, and tobacco-free environments.

This document provides public health advocates, policymakers, and community organizers with an overview of key policy and legal strategies being pursued to reduce or prevent obesity by increasing access to healthy food.

Concerns about liability can keep schools from implementing policies that might be beneficial to students or community members. This fact sheet provides an overview of liability and how Minnesota schools can use the law to protect themselves when implementing healthy eating and physical activity policies.

This fact sheet provides an overview of liability and how waivers and releases can be used as a risk management strategy to limit liability exposure.

These checklists are useful tools in the policy drafting and review process. The first checklist contains the steps in policy planning and drafting. The second checklist contains the elements that should be included in a policy. The final checklist contains questions for review of the policy to ensure that it is effective and comprehensive. Not every item will be relevant to every policy, but all should be considered.

This policy brief examines the Minnesota school food environment, identifies challenges and limitations, and suggests promising policy opportunities in four areas where persistent challenges have impeded progress: reining in competitive foods; increasing participation in school meal programs; increasing the use of locally grown foods; and improving the ability of state agencies to support the efforts of local school districts.