Project PA 2008
Project PA, a collaboration between Penn State University's Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Food and Nutrition, partners with schools and their communities to provide sound nutrition education and to promote children's healthy eating behaviors.
Recent Happenings at Project PA
2008 Expanding Breakfast Award
There's more than one way to serve breakfast. Does your foodservice department serve breakfast to students in a creative way with great results? Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association will recognize one Pennsylvania school in Mid-Atlantic territory for bringing a nutritious breakfast to their students in creative ways.
Project PA School Breakfast Resources
Project PA partners with schools and their communities to provide sound nutrition education and to promote children's healthy eating behaviors. Project PA is committed to promoting school breakfast programs and offers resources to schools to facilitate this.
Wellness and Academic Success: From Policy to Action Conference
Wellness and Academic Success: From Policy to Action Conference Wellness and Academic Success: From Policy to Action, a conference sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Pennsylvania Action for Healthy Kids. This conference was held on April 30th and May 1st, 2007 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, PA.
Promoting Nutrition and Physical Activity Through Afterschool Programs
The schools in this project are implementing lessons from the USDA's "Power of Choice" and "Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) Afterschool Program "ReCharge." Grant activities are designed to encourage student and parent involvement in local wellness policy teams. All grant recipients are involved in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.
Promising Practices for Implementing Your Local Wellness Policy
Schools throughout Pennsylvania are implementing creative and successful strategies to promote healthier eating and physical activity for students. We’d like to share these strategies with other schools. A collection ...
Produced by Project PA
Preventing Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Parents Can Make a Difference
A kit developed to help address the roles of families, schools, and communities in reversing the trends in childhood obesity.
Projects - 1995 through 2008
