Porter-Leath has taken action to support healthy eating habits in Shelby County’s young children with their ”Spoonfuls” program.
While breastfeeding has been widely cited as the best practice for feeding babies, some mothers may not have this option due to post-partum depression, inability to produce milk, lack of milk production, premature birth, pain, mother’s need to take medication, the list goes on and on.
The health and well-being of children, and infants especially, are in large part determined by whether or not the child is receiving proper nutrition. The nutritional needs of babies are much different than those of adults, but they are fairly easy for informed parents to meet. For a baby, breast milk has all the necessary vitamins and minerals. Infant formulas imitate breast milk.
Nutrition has been called the single greatest environmental influence on babies in the womb and during infancy1, and it remains essential throughout the first years of life.
The Perea preschool program is privately funded by Church Health Center and currently serves 128 at-risk students in North Memphis. The Perea program utilizes a High Scope emphasis classroom, which includes an active learning environment that introduces age appropriate curriculum content and positive conflict resolution.
