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Missouri
AFHK operates in collaboration with the Missouri Coordinated
School Health Coalition. Team Members help selected schools
develop nutrition and physical activity action plans based
on results from completed School Health Indexes. Missouri
AFHK will continue to provide support to schools at the grassroots
level to positively change the school health environment.
Missouri AFHK is placing Re-Charge! Energizing
After School, an after school curriculum, in districts across
the state. This is a program developed by the National
Football League and Action for Healthy Kids to emphasize
physical activity and
team work with
positive
nutrition messages for children in grades 3-6. The Missouri
state AFHK
team complements the program with an award-winning nutrition
curriculum called Whiz, Zip,
and Zap It! This curriculum
includes nutrition education with hands-on, simple and healthy
snack
preparation and tasting activities. Children also receive
an accompanying Whiz, Zip,
and Zap cookbook, which empowers
them
to practice their acquired healthy snack preparation skills
at home.
With the assistance of various grants
from National AFHK, Midwest
Dairy Council, and the American Heart Association – Kansas
City, and utilization of the USDA After-school Snack
Program, the Missouri State Team will pilot the after-school
nutrition
and physical activity program in 20 sites during the 2005-2006
school year. Missouri AFHK will provide on-site staff training,
curriculum materials, process evaluations, and web support,
as well as other technical support to schools.
ReCharge
ReCharge! empowers
students to increase their knowledge and practice of good
nutrition and physical activity habits
through a series of interactive team-based activities. By
participating in ReCharge!,
students will learn the lifetime benefit of healthy habits.
Whiz,
Zip & Zap It!
Whiz, Zip & Zap
It! includes twenty interactive lessons,
with each lesson including nutrition, food safety and healthy
snack preparation. In
order to reinforce the healthy snacks and cooking skills
the children have learned
in the program, each child will receive a Whiz,
Zip, & Zap cookbook to take
home and share with the family.
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Coalition
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