In this episode, Dr. Falon Smith discusses how Go NAPSACC provides easy-to-use tools for state administrators, ECE technical assistance consultants, and ECE providers, and it has decades of research on its effectiveness in improving ECE practices, environments, and health behaviors. She explains how multiple states, guided by the CDC Spectrum of Opportunities Framework, implemented Go NAPSACC over a 5-year period; resulting in a total of 7,152 ECE programs with over 344,000 children reached. Go NAPSACC is unique in its ability to help states in their ECE-system health promotion efforts.
This episode references the article titled "Multi-State Implementation of Go NAPSACC to Support Healthy Practices in the Early Care and Education Setting" by Margaret West, MPA, Carrie Dooyema, MSN, MPH, RN, Falon T. Smith, PhD, Erik A. Willis, PhD, Emily Clarke, RD, LDN, Aviva Shira Starr, MSW, Kelly Hall, MPH, Derek P. Hales, and Dianne S. Ward, EdD.
