About Texas Healthy Building Blocks

Texas Healthy Building Blocks, powered by Go NAPSACC, is a Texas initiative aimed at promoting evidence-based obesity prevention practices among early childhood education programs for children aged 0-5.

The CDC cites a worrying 1 in 5 children aged 2-5 are clinically overweight or obese, exposing them to potential short and long-term health risks. As many of these children spend considerable time in out-of-home care, these education programs and centers play a vital role in early obesity prevention.

The Texas Healthy Building Blocks program offers seven modules an Early Childcare Education Program can gain recognition badges in:

Child Nutrition
Physical Activity
Screen Time
Outdoor Play & Learning
Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding
Oral Health
Farm-to-ECE

Participating programs receive continuous guidance from a Technical Assistance Consultant through a local Community Partner. They help facilitate the improvement process, including goal setting and achievement towards healthier environments for children. As an added benefit, recognized programs can display awards on their premises and achievement on marketing materials, signaling to parents that they’ve committed to additional training and best practices to ensure children’s health is a priority which is required to attain distinguished awards of recognition.