Early Childhood Nutrition

This grant opportunity aims to improve the nutrition of children aged 0 to 5 years of age to support optimal health, development and reduce the risk of developing diet related chronic conditions and obesity. It supports activities that increase alignment of children’s dietary patterns to the recommendations in the Australian Dietary Guidelines.

It supports activities that improve knowledge and skills (e.g. education sessions to parents on appropriate foods and recipes), develop and disseminate early childhood nutrition resources (e.g. posters, online tools or learning modules) or provide services to improve early childhood meal provision (e.g. provide menu assessments or menu planning tools). These activities may be targeted towards children (0 to 5 years), their parents or carers, early childhood health care providers, health professionals, early childhood educators, early childhood care organisations or food service providers in early childhood care or education settings.