Promoting Nutrition Friendly Schools:

The term "Nutrition-Friendly Schools" is
Project PA's designation for Pennsylvania's efforts
to create Healthy School Nutrition Environments for
the children in our state's schools. The nutritional
health of the total school environment will continue
to be a primary focus of Project PA's efforts.

The Parent project is currently helping parents learn how they can make a difference in establishing healthy home, school, and community environments to positively impact their children's health.

During 2000 Project PA brought the nutrition-friendly schools issues to school administrators: informing them about connections between nutrition, health, and learning; and motivating them to develop, approve, and adhere to nutrition-friendly policies.

The Showcase Schools project, begun in 1999, promoted collaboration among cafeteria, classroom, and community members. This project helped to set Project PA on a course beyond training school food service personnel and toward improving the nutrition environment in the total school setting.

If you feel your school is particularly "nutrition friendly" or you've made some positive change to improve your school's nutrition environment, let us know and we may feature your story in a video and/or print material. Project PA's current efforts are centered around parent involvement in improving the nutrition environment at school and we are particularly interested in hearing about this type of activity.

Please contact:
Elaine McDonnell, Project PA Projects Coordinator
etm101@psu.edu
814-865-5869

OR . . .

use our on-line Activity Reporting Form