We Can!™ ( "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition")
A national program designed for families and communities to help children maintain a healthy weight. The program focuses on three important behaviors: improved food choices, increased physical activity and reduced screen time.
Join the Sneakers for FIT Kids Photo Petition!
Awards for Excellence in Texas School Health
Provides cash prizes and statewide recognition to Texas schools for outstanding initiatives that promote effective school health programs. This year 11 awards are available in cash amounts of $1,000, $1,200 and $1,500.
Extended Deadline: May 16, 2008
Live Green
Middle School Teachers Invited to Submit Ideas for Live Green Grant Program
Deadline: May 15, 2008
MyPyramid PodCasts
The MyPyramid PodCasts show how taking small steps can add up to real changes in your weight and health.
Obesity Action Coalition
The mission of the OAC is to elevate and empower those affected by obesity through education, advocacy and support.
The Walk from Obesity
In September and October in cities across the United States, individuals affected by obesity, their family members and friends, healthcare professionals and many others come together and proudly walk to raise awareness of the disease of obesity, childhood obesity and morbid obesity in the annual Walk from Obesity.
School Breakfast – Fuel Your Imagination Sweepstakes
Tell us how "Fuel Your Imagination" has impacted your participation levels in school breakfast and what you are doing to celebrate National School Breakfast Week (Mar 3-7) in our participation sweepstakes. In return, you will be entered to win "School Breakfast – Fuel Your Imagination" sticker sheets for your students.
SGMA APPLAUDS ANNOUNCEMENT OF $75.5 MILLION IN PEP GRANTS IN '08
Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association announces that $75.655 million in Physical Education Program grants will be awarded this calendar year (2008).
Champions for Healthy Kids Grants
A partnership of the General Mills Foundation, the American Dietetic Association Foundation and the President’s Challenge. Fifty grants of $10,000 each will be made to schools, community groups and other non-profit organizations with innovative programs aimed at improving the nutrition and activity habits of young people. The involvement of a registered dietitian or dietetics technician, registered is a requirement for each program.
The CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health and Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity announce the release of Body Mass Index Measurement in Schools in the Journal of School Health.
School-based body mass index (BMI) measurement has attracted much attention across the nation from researchers, school officials, and legislators as a potential approach to address obesity among youth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced Body Mass Index Measurement in Schools to describe the purpose of school-based BMI surveillance and screening programs. The article examines current practices, identifies concerns surrounding programs, and outlines needs for future research. Guidance is provided on specific safeguards that need to be addressed before schools decide to collect BMI information.
The 2008 Texas Cardiovascular Health Promotion Awards
The Texas Council on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke is currently taking applications for the 2008 Texas Cardiovascular Health Promotion Awards.
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