Upper Valley Healthy Eating Active Living Partnership
Upper Valley HEAL e-News February 2010
Upper Valley HEAL e-news keeps our community updated on activities and initiatives of our UV HEAL partnership.
Photo: This month's HEAL Healthy Hero, Amy Ballou and students at the Mt. Leb School skating rink.
1. What is Upper Valley HEAL and HEAL NH?
Upper Valley Healthy Eating Active Living (UV HEAL) Partnership links and supports community efforts to build the healthiest possible Upper Valley communities, with a special focus on Lebanon and the Mascoma towns. NH HEAL leads implementation of NH's Healthy Eating Active Living Action Plan.Related Links
- Upper Valley HEAL Home
- New Hampshire's Healthy Eating Active Living Action Plan
- VT's Fit and Healthy Kids Initiative
- Health Connections (serving Sharon, Strafford, and Tunbridge, VT)
- Ottaquechee Community Partnership (serving Woodstock VT and surrounding communities).
2. Evidence-Based NAP SACC Consultation Coming for Local Early Care
The State of NH has awarded UV HEAL a contract to implement NAP SACC in 3 Lebanon-Mascoma area early care centers. The Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) program is a practice-based intervention designed to enhance policies, practices, and environments in child care by improving:- nutritional quality of food served,
- amount and quality of physical activity
- staff-child interactions
- facility nutrition and physical activity policies and practices and related environmental characteristics.
For More Information
3. Mascoma River Greenway Celebrates 1st Mile Opening
The Mascoma River Greenway Coalition officially oepned the first mile of the Greenway, between the Old Yankee Store and the APD/Slayton Hill road area on January 31. Upper Valley Trail's Alliance constructed a Connector Trail between Mascoma Street and the Greenway that enables users to access the Greenway at the APD/Slayton Hill area.4. "Walk Home" Buses Start at Mount Lebanon School
Parent volunteers at the Mount Lebanon School, working with Amy Ballou, a Physical Education teacher at the school, have started a "Walk Home" program every Friday this winter. Five "Walk Home" routes have been established.5. Passport to Winter Fun Arriving in Schools and Clinics
Upper Valley Trails Alliance "Passport to Winter Fun" program is starting in schools over the next few weeks. The Passport program encourages kids and their parents to be active at lest an hour every day during the winter, with a special emphasis on outdoor winter activity. This year the Passport is going out to more schools and more grades than ever before. We welcome the Passport to the Enfield Village School and to new grades at the Canaan Elementary School! And for the first time, a special Passport is being made available to area pediatric practices as a tool for use with their patients and families.For more information:
- About the Passport to Winter Fun
- Request more information about the Passport program
- About the Upper Valley Trails Alliance
6. Research & Resources
- Poll Shows Strong Parental Support for Healthier Schools. http://www.rwjf.org/childhoodobesity/product.jsp?id=50589
- Report of the NH Commission on Prevention of Childhood Obesity
- Story Walk: An adaptable tool to encourage literacy, writing, and movement for kids and families. This model has been adapted locally for 3rd graders at the Hanover Street School in Lebanon, and by the Norwich Public Library. http://www.kellogghubbard.org/storywalk.html
- Nominate a HEAL Healthy Hero. Read about Amy Ballou, this month's HEAL Healthy Hero. Want to nominate someone you know who helps kids and families learn lifelong healthy habits of healthy eating and active living? Tell us!
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The Upper Valley Healthy Eating Active Living Partnership
includes the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD), Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Lebanon Schools, Mascoma Schools, Upper Valley Trails Alliance, Lebanon Recreation and Parks, Mascoma Valley Health Initiative, Vital Communities / Valley Food & Farm, Willing Hands Enterprises, and other individuals and community groups. Upper Valley HEAL is a community grants recipient of the HEAL NH Initiative. Funding provided by Foundation for Healthy Communities, HNH Foundation, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation, Endowment for Health, and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. UV HEAL is hosted at CHaD, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. Contact Maudi Silver Mallemat, UV HEAL Partnership Coordinator, 603-653-3455, for more information.Comment
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