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Welcome to Wednesday WOWS!
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January 06, 2010

....Easy HEAR-SEE-DO action tips each week

HEAR .... Provide a message to increase awareness of knowledge/skills
SEE .... Show people HOW to make healthy changes
DO .... Help people practice and make healthy changes

Goal Setting for Healthy Change

HEAR

The new year provides an opportunity to assess "where you are" with your school, organization, or youth program wellness initiatives and "where you would like to be". Goal Setting generates Action, which promotes Success. Let HKC help you set your "Goals for Healthy Kids" with the resources and suggestions below!

SEE

DO

  1. Gather your wellness team for a meeting to brainstorm goals for your school, organization, or youth program. If a wellness team doesn't exist, your first goal may be to build a team! Seek out people with an interest in health such as administrators, co-workers, teachers, youth leaders, community leaders, nurses, food service staff and parents. Consider commenting on this week's HKC            Solutions: Improving Quality of School Wellness Policies blog to ask for help with wellness team building!

  2. Keep the following points in mind when setting goals:
    • Specific - A defined or tangible event/activity is easier to implement than an idea. For example, the goal to provide a 5th grade classroom MyPyramid Food Guide curriculum is specific; the goal of providing kids better nutrition education, is not specific enough.
    • Measurable - Goals should provide beneficial outcomes. Being able to gather participation numbers and comments helps to determine if the goal was effective.
    • Attainable - Set smaller goals that can be successful. Instead of an employee wellness program for the whole school district, choose one school to pilot a program.
    • Time-bound - Set a time/date that a goal will take place or reach completion. Such as, a May 5th 2010 walking race or a school-wide month of healthy eating events. 
HKC Monthly Webinar Training Notice! Register Now!
Food Museum activity booklet Webinar
Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:00 p.m. CST 
See how to make the grocery store a healthy learning experience for kids!

"Cafeteria Success - Menus, marketing, student advisory groups" Webinar
Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:00 p.m. CST

HEAR - SEE - DO Tips for Newsletters

Cut and paste a HEAR-SEE-DO tip each week into your own parent newsletters!

Family Wellness Goal Setting 

At a family dinner, talk about setting some healthy, realistic family goals to work on this new year. Keep it simple and FUN! Pick one or more ideas below or make up your own!

  • Commit to eating together at least 2-3 times a week-breakfast, lunch or dinner works!
  • Choose one evening each week to walk or bicycle outside after dinner.
  • Choose one meal a week that the kids will help prepare.
  • Spend time on the weekend playing an active game like Twister®, Table tennis, Frisbee® or jump rope. Anything will do as long as you're moving!
Solutions: Improving Quality of School Wellness Policies Blog
Healthy Kids Challenge view of the quality issues schools encounter when it comes to wellness...and one of our simple, every day, evidence based solutions. What schools tell us: We don't have a wellness team. One person takes care of all the wellness stuff... Read More.
HKC Materials: Get 2 Booklets for the Price of One!
Now through January 15, 2010 purchase a booklet and get another of equal or lesser value for free! Start shopping!
Funding Opportunity
Use the following grant to engage youth in community wellness projects. 

Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants 
Deadline: Rolling
The Starbucks Shared Planet Youth Action Grants are designed to help young people realize their natural potential to reinvent their local communities. The Starbucks Foundation accepts applications from organizations that provide young people (ages 6 to 24) with a continuum of service opportunities in social entrepreneurship.

Thought for the Day
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that." -- Earl Nightingale 

For questions about Healthy Kids Challenge, please contact:
Vickie L. James, RD, LD, Director
vickie@healthykidschallenge.com
1-888-259-6287
www.healthykidschallenge.com

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