
Louise Earle Loomis Children's Wellness Center
Hartford, CT
Family Life Education's Children's Wellness Center is the first facility of its kind in the Northeast to implement a spectrum of wellness strategies while incorporating early learning opportunities and hands-on education/practice for parents.
Childhood Obesity Prevention
Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Early Childhood Development
Partnering with other organizations, Family Life Education Center will offer a variety of culturally competent activities, such as:
- An early learning program for infants/toddlers that incorporates the latest brain research and supports children’s cognitive development;
- Educating parents about the importance of talking to their infants/toddlers, and in utero, to stimulate language development;
- Testing gross/fine motor skills and other developmental milestones;
- Training parents how to monitor their children’s progress;
- Educating parents about practices at home that will support their children’s learning and development;
- Nutritional cooking (with a full-scale kitchen);
- Gardening (indoor and outdoor);
- Childhood dental screenings;
- Adult health screenings, including mobile mammography;
- Fresh food distribution through Foodshare’s mobile services;
- Physical strengthening (yoga, tumbling, movement)