Nearly 150 volunteers
from across Houston and the country have joined
hands in planning Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools
prototype projects that will begin launching at
HISD in the 2009-2010 school year. This new pilot
will focus on improving nutrition and physical activity
opportunities through a communications campaign,
delivering new healthy food options to kids, working
with business and retail to create a Healthy School
Zone and attracting new partners and resources to
support these efforts.
The pilot also will include other ideas brought
forth at the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools
Summit that the Houston Independent School District
is actively pursuing. These measures include increasing
the student voice in wellness through a new student
advisory council and elevating visibility of the
issue among school administrators and parents on
HISD’s website and upcoming conferences.
“The Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools
initiative aims to accelerate the momentum for positive
change at HISD,” said Alicia Moag-Stahlberg,
MS, RD, Initiative Co-chair and Senior Consultant,
National Dairy Council and Former and Founding Executive
Director, Action for Healthy Kids. “Very talented
and committed volunteers who represent the whole
system of stakeholders are uniting to create improved
nutrition and physical activity opportunities at
HISD.”
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