Healthy School Environment Grant TRAINING

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Welcome!
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Healthy School Environment Grant TRAINING

• Presented by
• Michigan Team Nutrition
• Michigan State University Extension
• The Michigan Department of Education
• The United Dairy Industry of Michigan

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Paving the Way for Change Linking your HSAT
and Local Wellness Policy

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What does it mean to be a champion?

A champion is someone who makes things happen.
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Todays Question

What does it mean to be the change? True
Stories
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Why Be the Change?

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Americas Children are Flunking Healthy Eating

• Childhood Obesity Leads to Chronic Disease
• Poor Eating Habits
• Inactive Lifestyles

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Kids Living in America are Overweight, Yet
Undernourished.
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Increasing Overweight in School-age Children
Percent Overweight
CDC/NCHS, NHES and NHANES
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Increasing Overweight in Preschoolers
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Is being overweight associated with health
problems in children?
YES!!!

• Type 2 diabetes
• Asthma
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Joint problems
• Sleep disorders

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• Type 2 Diabetes
• One in three children born in the US in 2000
  will become diabetic at some point in their
  life
• CDC 06/15/03

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Children are eating

• More Calories
• Larger Servings
• More Food Outside the Home
• More Convenience Foods
• Less Fruit
• Fewer Vegetables
• Less Milk

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Children are less physically active due to

• Technology
• Increased Screen Time (TV, computer, video games)
• Less Outdoor Play
• Safety Concerns
• Reduction of Biking

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Nutrition and Fitness

• Improve attendance
• Improve energy levels
• Improve participation
• Improve behavior
• Improve test scores
• Improve academic success

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• Bottom Line
• Research shows that nutrition and physical
  activity improve both student behavior and
  academic achievement.

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• What do students need?

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Schools that are willing to make to positive
changes that support kids health and academic
potential.
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No Childs HEALTH Left Behind
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Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of
2004
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HSAT
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HSAT

• School Health Policies
• Health Education (Nutrition Ed included)
• PE and PA
• Nutrition (Food Service)
• School Health Services
• School Counseling, Psych, and SS
• Health Promotion for Staff
• Family and Community Involvement

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Todays Objectives

• Better understand how your LWP, HSAT, and this
  grant fit together
• Understand the basics about MyPyramid and where
  to go for more information
• Learn about new NE resources, how to use them,
  and at what grade level
• Learn strategies and steps to increase sale of
  reimbursable school meals
• Receive a resource box of nutrition education
  materials and information about where to go to
  obtain more resources
• Understand the NE (comprehensive NE) and FS grant
  requirements including evaluation
  responsibilities
• Understand how and when to submit your updated
  HSAT Action Plan in the areas of NE and FS
• Understand when (the dates) to update your
  on-line HSAT Action Plan
• Know who to go to for more information about this
  grant project.

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Your Resource Box Deb Grischke

• What you received last year
• What you will receive today.

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Housekeeping
Folders Sessions who goes where?
Breaks Bathrooms Lunch Misc
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Transition to Breakouts
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Wrap Up
How was your day?
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Fine-tuning HSAT Action Plan
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Fine-tuning HSAT Action Plan

• Remember to include
• one foodservice action step
• one nutrition education action step
• Paper copy is due December 15, 2006.
• After you are notified that it has been approved
  you must enter this information on your HSAT
  on-line Action Plan.

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Evaluation Requirements

• Facilitator Updated HSAT Action Plan by
  12-15-06, End of Year Questions, Final HSAT
  Update (end of project).
• Lead Teacher/Educator student and teacher
  evaluation for NE implementation
• Foodservice Director required FS eval forms

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Awards You Can Apply For

Michigan Surgeon General's Healthy School
Environment Recognition Program

www.tn.fcs.msue.msu.edu Click on Awards
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Role Modeling Healthy Habits

• Tell us what you know!

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Grant Mentors

• Grant Mentors will contact you, via e-mail, after
  your updated Action Plan has been approved.
• Foodservice
• Paula Kerr and Deb Grischke
• Nutrition Education
• Ann Guyer
• Chris Flood

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Why Be the Change?

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Check for Understanding..

• Better understand how your LWP, HSAT, and this
  grant fit together
• Understand the basics about MyPyramid and where
  to go for more information
• Learn about new NE resources, how to use them,
  and at what grade level
• Learn strategies and steps to increase sale of
  reimbursable school meals
• Receive a resource box of nutrition education
  materials and information about where to go to
  obtain more resources
• Understand the NE (comprehensive NE) and FS grant
  requirements including evaluation
  responsibilities
• Understand how and when to submit your updated
  HSAT Action Plan in the areas of NE and FS.
• Understand when (the date) to update your on-line
  HSAT Action Plan
• Know who to go to for more information about this
  grant project.

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Change Starts Today
We must be the change we want to see in the world.
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Resource Box Pick Up

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Thank you!
Have a safe trip home.