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Teleconference IV — Increasing School Meals Participation: Creative Strategies that Work!
On May 12, 2004, Project PA, a collaboration between the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Penn State University, presented a one-day teleconference, “Increasing School Meals Participation: Creative Strategies that Work!”
The primary target audience for the teleconference was school foodservice employees.
The teleconference was broadcast to 27 sites in Pennsylvania, reaching 350 participants.
Funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Food and Nutrition, with
Federal State Administrative Expense funds provided by the Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
The objectives of the teleconference were for participants to:
1. Be motivated to take positive action to improve school meals participation
2. List barriers to improving participation
3. Identify effective, feasible solutions to barriers
4. Identify action steps to improve participation
5. Identify creative strategies they can implement in their own schools
6. Identify resources to help improve school meals participation
Teleconference Format
 Two 90-minute segments, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, were broadcast from the WPSX studios on Penn State's University Park campus.
Twenty-seven statewide downlink sites.
Interspersed with times during which activities were conducted at the local downlink sites.
Led by trained facilitators.
Use the links on these pages to locate summaries of eight of the "Creative Strategies" video segments presented during the broadcast time, brief descriptions of selected "Creative Strategies" faxed to the broadcast site by participants at the downlink sites, and highlights of the afternoon panel segments.
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