Child Health Resources
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership has received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association, to develop two different Safe Routes to School (SRTS) resource guides. They are requesting success stories in two different areas:
· Promising examples of SRTS in low-income and diverse communities: They are looking for examples of low-income, urban, rural, and/or communities of color that show promise in implementing SRTS and overcoming barriers like crime, limited financial resources, language and cultural barriers, staff turnover, and more.
· Promising examples of SRTS as part of student health and wellness: They are seeking examples of schools, school districts, or states that have included SRTS into broader efforts to get children healthy and active. They aim to help demonstrate why student physical activity impacts a schools' core mission of educating children.
Please send any suggestions to
margo@saferoutespartnership.org
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The National Farm to School Network is sponsoring two contests for youth that both include a trip to their national conference in Detroit next month as a prize. Both have deadlines in late March.
- Cooking Up Change asks students to design a meal that could be made in a school cafeteria using local ingredients. More information, including promotional materials, can be found at the links below.
http://www.healthyschoolscampaign.org/event/cookingupchange/2010/welcome.php
http://www.cookingupchange.org/promote.php
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“Real Food Is” Video Contest asks student to produce a 30 second to 3 minute video that informs, inspires, and encourages student advocacy to restore connections to community, food, land, and place through Farm to Cafeteria programs. Promotional materials are included in the attached document and the complete rules can be found at the link below.
http://www.farmtoschool.org/video/OfficialRulesoftheRealFoodIsVideoContest.pdf
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The Alliance for a Healthier Generation is searching for a select group of young people to serve on their Youth Advisory Board (for 2010-2011) and roll up their sleeves for a few hours a month of critical thinking, engaging conversations, good fun, new friendships, and high-profile leadership. Applicants must be between the ages of 8 and 17 years old when membership begins July 2010 and live in the United States.
Interested youth can visit http://www.empowerme2b.org/2010-2011-youth-advisory-board
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The National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN) provides leaders in the childhood obesity prevention field with focused legal research, model policies, fact sheets, toolkits, training and technical assistance to explain legal issues related to public health. I have been serving on behalf of PTA as a member of their Schools Learning Group over the last year and have been consistently impressed with their work.
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The USDA has created the first-ever Food Atlas, an interactive database that maps components of healthy food environments down to the local level across the country.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/
