Empowering Our Youngest Food Citizens: Nourishing Bodies and Minds Through Responsive Eating and Family-Style Dining

This interactive session will allow you to practice new hands-on approaches for introducing, implementing, or improving family style dining and responsive feeding practices with young children in child care settings and beyond. Attendees will learn about new audience-informed training resources from the US Department of Agriculture�s Team Nutrition initiative and research findings and key takeaways from the University of Nebraska�s EAT-Family Style Dining Program. Discover evidence-based strategies and resources that can foster positive mealtime environments and build the foundation for healthy eating that can last a lifetime.