Action for Healthy Kids Partners’ newsletters
Please see the attached list of Action for Healthy Kids Partners’ newsletters. These are free newsletters that you may be interested in subscribing to in order to receive new information about the field and a specific Partner. The link to subscribe for each newsletter is included on the attached list.
The Food Research and Action Center Releases School Breakfast Reports
FRAC issued its annual School Breakfast Scorecard and its second report on school breakfast in large urban school districts on January 14. Participation in the School Breakfast Program grew to include 8.5 million children during the 2007-2008 school year, an increase of four percent over the previous school year, but the program still misses more than half of America’s eligible low-income children. Only 46 percent of low-income children that ate a school lunch started the day with a school breakfast in 2007-2008. In the report, FRAC calls for Congress to increase funding for school breakfast and other child nutrition programs.
Breakfast in America’s Big Cities measures breakfast participation in 19 large urban districts. According to the city report, school districts that offer breakfast free to all students and serve breakfast in the classroom at the start of the school day rather than in the cafeteria, or offer bagged "grab and go" breakfasts from carts in the hallway generally experience higher rates of breakfast participation.
Full Press Release is at
www.frac.org/Press_Release/breakfast09scorecard_andurban.htm
CDC, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity Web Course
The Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity Web course trains public health professionals in the basics of social marketing with an emphasis on implementing nutrition and physical activity social marketing programs. The course includes the following seven modules: Social Marketing Basics, Problem Description, Formative Research, Strategy Development, Intervention Design, Evaluation, and Implementation. Students have a chance to interact with and provide advice to a fictional program planner who is struggling with common challenges. The course includes tips for working with limited resources, worksheets, a glossary, and links to multiple resources.
HHS Announces Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
The comprehensive set of recommendations for people of all ages and physical conditions were released October 7th, 2008. The guidelines are designed so people can easily fit physical activity into their daily plan and incorporate activities they enjoy.
For more information, click here.