 The Bureau of Health Education within the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs recently conducted health promotion assessments at a number of early childhood development centres in an effort to promote healthy behaviours amongst young children. In response to the assessments, the department has started implementing a series of training sessions to address the needs identified. The training sessions seek to build the capacity of early childhood development providers in their approach to ensuring the health and wellbeing of the children in their care. Family life educator, Laurencia Milo, spoke on the need to undertake this workshop. This came about as a result of the need that exists in the region, in discussion with the providers, certain issues arising and we realised there's a gap and a need to fill that gap and hence the need the workshop came on stream. So this workshop, we are hoping that at the end of it that providers will have those skills as well as the education to better meet the needs of those young children in their care. Milo says other early childhood development providers around the island will also gain the necessary knowledge and skills to assist them with ensuring healthy practices in children. So the hope is for us to implement this workshop in all the regions throughout the island and by so doing we think we will have that standard information so everybody will build that capacity to be able to better do what it is they're doing in terms of working with children. The training focused on areas such as counselling, nutrition for preschoolers, small kitchen gardening, stress management and vaccination to name a few. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs,