Project PA 2009
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
Project PA Healthy Whole Wheat Kit
Considerable scientific evidence suggests that eating whole grains such as whole wheat reduces the risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and certain cancers. A Healthy People 2010 objective establishes a recommended intake of three servings of whole grains per day. At present, few children in the United States are meeting these recommendations. School meals represent a strategic point of intervention for children, because the majority of schools in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program.
School Nutrition Toolbox
The Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the Pennsylvania State University have collaborated to provide free web-based administrative training for National School Lunch (NSLP) sponsors in Pennsylvania. Four training courses are currently available: Eligibility Determination, Verification, Meal Counting and Claiming, and a NSLP Annual Training module.
Mini-Grant Opportunity for Pennsylvania Schools
The Pennsylvania Department of Education, through USDA Team Nutrition funding, announces the availability of funding to help selected schools in Pennsylvania to promote nutrition and physical activity. This funding is being made available through a collaboration with Penn State University known as Project PA. Grants of up to $6000 will be awarded to up to 18 schools on a competitive basis.
Call for Entries | Promising Practices 2009
Schools throughout Pennsylvania are implementing creative and successful strategies to promote student health, wellness, and academic success. We’d like to share these strategies with other schools. Do you have a “Promising Practice” that you’d like to share with others? If so, you can share your information through this website.
Your School Wellness Policy: What You Need to Know
Now that schools have established local wellness policies, they are working on implementing those policies. Teachers can play a vital role in this effort by integrating nutrition education and physical activity into their classrooms, following the established nutrition guidelines when offering food in the classroom, supporting the school meals programs and serving as positive role models for students.
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.
Projects - 1995 through 2009
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Local Wellness Policy Demonstration Project*
Through Team Nutrition funding, Project PA is conducting a demonstration project in seven school districts. Local wellness policy activities in the selected districts will be assessed and school environmental changes will be documented. Resulting case studies will be compiled into a technical assistance guide for wellness policy implementation.
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 implemented lessons from the USDA's "Power of Choice" and "Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) Afterschool Program "ReCharge." Grant activities were designed to encourage student and parent involvement in local wellness policy teams. All grant recipients were involved in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.
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