Child Care & Development DAC

The charge of the Child Care & Development DAC shall be to:

• Assist, inform, and support the Board on issues related to student health and safety needs.
  
  
• Monitor contemporary issues in health and safety that have a direct impact on school age children.
  
  
• Encourage developmentally appropriate health education in all schools.
  
  
• Identify community resources to enhance health and safety in schools.
  
  
• Identify community resources to provide supplemental mental health supports for children and families.
  
  
• Review the literature and best practices associated with healthy eating, delivery of student meals and student consumption of meals aimed at the reduction of childhood obesity and establishing healthy life-long eating habits to support its work.