Idaho Physical Activity & Nutrition

Let’s Move! CDA

In 2014, the City of Coeur d’Alene Mayor, Steve Widmyer, and the Coeur d’Alene City Council committed to participating in the Let’s Move! Cities, Towns, and Counties (LMCTC), a key component of the comprehensive Let’s Move! initiative.

This initiative is dedicated to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. The City of Coeur d’Alene became the 10th Let’s Move! city in Idaho. By adopting this initiative, Let’s Move! CDA committed to five goals to help improve nutrition and physical activity habits in our youth and community. In 2015, having completed the five goals, Coeur d’Alene became a “Gold Medal LMCTC City,” one of only 99 U.S. cities to receive the gold medal standing.

The five goals include:

o Goal I: Start Early, Start Smart – helping early care and education program providers incorporate best practices for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time reduction into their programs.
o Goal II: MyPlate, Your Place – displaying MyPlate in municipally-owned or operated venues that offer or sell food/beverages.
o Goal III: Smart Servings for Students – providing healthy food to children and youth by expanding access to meal programs before, during, and after the school day, and/or over the summer months.
o Goal IV: Model Food Service – implementing healthy and sustainable food guidelines in municipally-owned or operated venues.
o Goal V: Active Kids at Play – promoting access to play and physical activity.

To learn more about Let’s Move! Cities, Towns, and Counties and the five goals visit: www.healthycommunitieshealthyfuture.or

Let’s Move! Childcare

Panhandle Health District works with child care providers and early educators, through Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC), to improve nutrition and physical activity practices and policies when caring for children.
This is accomplished through a collaboration with IdahoSTARS to provide free Let’s Move! Child Care training and resources to teach providers how to incorporate healthy nutrition and physical activity into the child care program and by assisting participating sites with a self-assessment and corresponding quality improvement goals to help aid in the fight for childhood obesity.

Let’s Move! Child Care focuses on five goals:

1. Nurture Healthy Eaters
2. Provide Healthy Beverages
3. Get Kids Moving
4. Reduce Screen Time
5. Support Breastfeeding

Once providers have made significant improvement toward meeting these goals, they will become recognized as an LMCC provider.

Helpful Provider Resources:

Childcare Resource Center at Panhandle Health
Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children
Idaho STARS
Zero to Three