Growing up healthy

We offer an annually updated, free training program on the topic of health promotion. We offer around 40 training courses on the topics of exercise, nutrition, development, health, inclusion and existing support services in Stuttgart. The training courses range from short online courses to face-to-face courses lasting several days.

Among the 40 training courses on offer you will find, for example:

• Help, the child is different! But what is normal?
• Children's yoga in the daycare center
• Mental stress in daycare children
• Children who challenge us with their behavior. What framework do children need?
• Psychomotricity / motopedagogy
• Autism spectrum disorder in the elementary sector

We support you as a daycare center in strengthening your health-promoting profile. Together with you as a team, parents and providers and with the participation of the children, we develop sustainable and everyday approaches to a health promotion topic that are suitable for your daycare center. We combine behavioral and situational prevention and incorporate your existing health promotion measures.

Once or twice a year, the ViVO newsletter provides you with easy-to-understand information on all aspects of health promotion in daycare centers. The ViVOs address current topics, show you best-practice examples from Stuttgart daycare centers and inform you about available support services. We write the articles together with experts from science and from Stuttgart daycare centers. The ViVO is sent to you, as a Stuttgart daycare center, by post and email.

The online lecture series "Healthy impulses for parents" provides information on selected topics relating to the health promotion of children and young people and thus offers practical ways in which you can support your children accordingly. The Healthy Impulses each offer brief information on health topics from local experts (30 minutes), an opportunity to clarify your questions (20 minutes) and an exchange with other parents (30 minutes). You decide which program items you want to take part in.

As children's mental health has become a major focus during the challenging past three years of the pandemic, the first edition of the Parents' ViVO is dedicated to the topic of resilience. It aims to support families in strengthening their children for existing and future crises, including everyday ones. This ViVO shows practical and easy-to-implement options that can help to strengthen children's mental health. The activities included are suitable for children from the age of two.