Vision: Community environments that promote and support healthy lifestyles

Mission: To inspire, motivate and educate children, adults, families and communities to take action to be healthy through good nutrition and physical activity

MINUTES OF THE MARINETTE / OCONTO COMMUNITY WELLNESS PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS

Related Links of Interest:

• Kids in Action – The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), along with the Kellogg Company and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and sports, has developed this brochure to present parents and caregivers with simple ideas for physical activities that they can do with children from birth to age five.
• Governor Doyle’s Healthy Kids Initiatives – This website includes information for students, teachers and parents alike to promote the physical health of all students in Wisconsin.
• School Health Issues – Childhood Obesity: What Research Tells Us – This is a free publication from The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, summarizing key findings from the best studies on the background and health consequences of childhood obesity as well as information regarding physical activity and schools and nutrition and schools.
• Action for Healthy Kids – The national and state Action for Healthy Kids initiative teams have resources related to school nutrition and physical education. It also includes resources for education and awareness building.
• Changing the Scene – The Changing the Scene tool kit addresses the entire school nutrition environment such as commitment to nutrition and physical activity, pleasant eating experiences, quality school meals, other healthy food options, nutrition education and marketing the issue to the public.
• U.S. Surgeon General Overweight in Children and Adolescents–the Surgeon General’s Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity.
• Helping Your Overweight Child – Practical, down-to-earth tips from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
• WIC’s Childhood Overweight/Obesity Links – A list of recommended Web sites, from the “WIC Works Resource System”.
• Marketing of Junk Food in Schools – A brief and well-documented fact sheet from Commercial Alert.
• Childhood Obesity overview – Commercial Alert works to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity.

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