Healthy Starts for Infants and Toddlers was an innovative project supported by NC DHHS: Division of Child Development and Early Education, delivered through Shape NC, a long-term program hosted by the NC Partnership for Children (Smart Start). Its focus was to improve outdoor spaces for infants and toddlers, birth to 35 months. NLI offered expertise in evidence-based outdoor learning environments design and management to 19 childcare centers in Wake, Orange, and Guilford counties, North Carolina, who implemented amazing environments on the ground during challenging circumstances.
