PTA Resource
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and your colleagues in the field to discuss: childhood obesity research, best practices for addressing childhood obesity, and strategies for using policy and environmental change to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity.
The center's first round of webinars in 2010 is focused on, “Making Schools the Model for Healthier Environments." Each webinar
will be held bi-monthly on Thursdays at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central, 11 a.m. Pacific), and will discuss initiatives currently underway to ensure that schools become the standard for healthy eating
and active living.
From preschool through 12th grade, schools can make a significant contribution to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by enacting policies that promote the availability and consumption of
nutritious foods and beverages, and by teaching healthy habits that can last a lifetime.
These webinars will feature researchers, advocates, and policymakers discussing solutions to problems that schools face in providing healthy food and opportunities for physical activity. These
sessions will also provide resources to help make schools healthier.
Register for any or all of the four webinars in this series:
February 25:
Seizing the Moment: Efforts Underway to Improve our Schools
March 11:
Sowing Seeds: Improving Food Quality with Farm-to-School Programs
March 25:
Setting the Standard: What Schools Are Doing about Competitive Foods
April 8:
Let’s Get Physical: Being Active to Reverse Child Obesity
