Professional Education

This content is designed for primary care providers and pediatricians in practice to address early nutrition and foster healthy active living beginning at birth through the first 2 years. Resources include self-paced learning modules, webinars, podcasts, clinical support tools, and quality improvement opportunities.

CME Self-Paced Courses

Learners will be able to build their knowledge on how to support families with developmentally appropriate healthy active living right from the start.

CME Live and Enduring Events

The following educational sessions were designed to support learners in topics related to early nutrition.

AAP QI and Learning Collaboratives

The following materials and opportunities are provided to support clinicians in quality improvement. There are currently no open application opportunities. Please check back for updates.

Podcasts

The Conversations About Care podcast series features pragmatic and lively conversations between health care providers focused on providing quality patient-centered care within the changing landscape of medicine and social norms.


Clinical Supports

The tools below were designed for primary care providers and pediatricians in practice to address early nutrition and foster healthy active living beginning at birth through the first 2 years.

Healthy Beverages Quick Reference Guide

This reference tool was designed to compile the various policy and clinical recommendations into an easy-to-use guide that spotlights the age-specific AAP healthy beverage recommendations for infants, toddlers, children and adolescents. To view or download the guide, click here.

HALF Implementation Guide

The Healthy Active Living for Families: Right From the Start (HALF) Implementation Guide is an online resource for pediatricians to enhance obesity prevention for children birth to age 5 via primary care. The evidence based guide identifies risk patterns associated with obesity and highlights key topics to cover during various developmental stages. Click to view the half guide.

Healthy Growth App

The Healthy Growth App allows a healthcare provider and parent to identify healthy active living topic areas that are important to the family during a patient encounter. The resulting personalized action strategies can be printed or emailed directly to the parent. Content is available in English and Spanish. Click to download the app.

Last Updated

07/09/2024

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics