 Michelle's Let's Move partnership with schools, businesses, local leaders has helped bring down childhood obesity rates for the first time in 30 years. One in every three American children is obese. In an effort to combat this epidemic, Boston has a program based off the First Lady's National Movement. The Department of Public Health has launched the Boston Healthy Child Care Initiative with hopes to promote a healthier lifestyle for kids. The goal is to work with childcare providers in Boston and train them on healthy eating and physical activity. In order to become certified, childcare facility managers must take a class with the Department of Public Health and allow observation of their facility to ensure that they comply with the BHCCI's eight best practice standards. These standards include providing water to kids on a regular basis, refusing to serve sugary drinks, serving fruits and vegetables, offering whole grains, supervising indoor and outdoor playtime, allowing limited television time, supporting and promoting breastfeeding to parents and incorporating a written policy that outlines these standards. I was the one who took the class with the Boston Health Commission and that was kind of how we were recognized was when they were teaching the class that I was like, time out, we already do all this. Jen is the director of the Franklin Square House Children's Center in Roxbury. Her facility is officially certified and she says that promoting a healthy lifestyle has always been one of their main focuses. You know, knowing all day that they're eating healthy and the parents don't have to worry about what they're getting, they know that every day there's going to be something nutritious in their diet definitely is a draw here. It's been one year since the Department of Public Health has started handing out certificates like these to daycare such as the Franklin Square House Children's Center and they are looking to hand out more certificates to daycares all across the city. I think this is the perfect place, perfect opportunity to make sure that the kids are eating healthy and that they're moving more since they are in a facility that's one place for most of their day. So if we can get the daycare providers to make sure that the kids are as healthy as they can be, I think it could help parents a lot too. 400 child care providers currently have a BHCCI certification. The Department of Public Health hopes to eventually have every daycare in Boston certified. Reporting for the Boston University News Service, I'm Katarina Lukatich.