Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones

HALO Overview

Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones is an evidenced-based, developmentally appropriate health education and prevention program for 3-6 year-old children. It is designed to provide information and to help children build skills for growing up in healthy ways.

Learn About HALO!

Preschool is the perfect time to learn positive life skills. In fact, studies have shown that life-long values are formed at this age and children as young as three can understand discussions about alcohol and tobacco.

HALO adopts a positive, loving approach that empowers children with knowledge and confidence. HALO promotes understanding choices as healthy or harmful, rather than “good” and “bad.” Children eagerly embrace the concept of a healthy choice, rather than passively acknowledging that a behavior is good or bad.

Learn About the HALO Curriculum.

With each new lesson, children are reminded that they are unique and special, that they have the ability to choose a healthy life, and that healthy means “Growing Bigger, Stronger and Better Able to Think.”

Shop The HALO Store to purchase your HALO Curriculum & Trainnig DVD and other HALO items today! HALO is available in English or Spanish! You’ll find the HALO Program Guide and our HALO Music CD which is a collection of 16 original songs sung by children. We even have HALO t-shirts available for your little ones! Call (877) 553-3001 for details.

HALO Is a Proven Winner!

HALO explains how both healthy and harmful choices ultimately affect a child’s mental and physical well-being by teaching social skills, emotional awareness, and how the body’s organs work.

The program includes original HALO songs, fun activities with HALO’s Healthy vs. Harmful picture recognition cards, or the anatomy apron — to strengthen protective factors and reduce risk factors by helping children develop resiliency skills: self-discipline, an internal locus of control, problem-solving strategies, and tolerance of people and situations different from their own.

See What Parents Say About HALO!

In addition to being nationally honored, HALO is cheered by parents, providers, prevention professionals, and funders alike. It is both kid-friendly and supported by documented child development and prevention research.

Each of the twelve HALO Units includes pre-written letters for parents, so the HALO lesson and the messages can be shared and reinforced at home. Children that learn HALO often remind their parents about healthy choices, which often prompts a parent to stop smoking or to eat healthier meals.

Through HALO, children . . .

• acquire a strengthened sense of self.
• learn to say “no” to things that are harmful.
• learn to recognize, label and express feeling in appropriate ways.
• practice communication skills.
• obtain information about the harmful effects of tobacco and drugs.
• learn safety precautions for medicines.
• learn the importance of good nutrition and physical activity.
• practice techniques to reduce stress.
• increase acceptance of cultural diversity.