Transcript Champions for Healthy Kids

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Training Overview
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HYES Pre-survey administration – if applicable
Introduction - You are a Champion for Healthy Change!
Your Voice Counts – share ideas and experiences!
Core Messages
o Role Modeling
o Eating Together
o Calories in Beverages
o Physical Activity and Screen Time
o Create a Healthy Environment
• Action Items and Goal Setting for Healthy Change
You are a Champion for Healthy
Change!
• You play a vital role in helping kids develop healthy
nutrition and physical activity behaviors.
• Children in your program take their cue from watching
you.
• Kids may eat meals and snacks while in your care.
• How and what children are fed impacts the foods they
eat, and learn to enjoy, as well as the habits they
develop for life.
Your Voice Counts!
This training might be a bit different from some others you
have participated in. We will all have the opportunity to
learn from each other. Discussion and small group
activities will give everyone the opportunity to share
opinions and to be heard.
• You will be invited to share your insight and
contributions to the discussion.
• No one will be asked directly to contribute to the
discussion. We call this Voice by Choice.
• Let’s create an interactive, comfortable learning
environment in which everyone can feel at ease!
Let’s Discuss
Let’s take a few moments to exchange ideas about ways to
be a champion for healthy change. Turn to the person
sitting next to you and talk about the ways you have been
successful as a champion for youth in your program, with
respect to healthy eating and physical activity.
What are some challenges you faced when implementing
these healthy changes?
We will take 5 minutes for this activity, then come back
together to share our successes.
Be a role model!
• Kids take their lead from watching you. Eat healthy
foods and join in physical activities and kids will too!
• Enjoy healthy foods at meals and snacks with the
children in your program.
• Talk about healthy foods and why you enjoy eating
them. Discuss how good eating these foods makes you
feel.
• Encourage kids, and their parents and caregivers, to
enjoy healthy foods together.
• Drink water and offer water to kids in your program at
meals, snacks, and after being physically active.
Serve Healthy Foods
Provide kids with healthy foods for meals and snacks.
Serve MyPlate foods from each of the 5 food groups:
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Lean protein such as chicken, fish, beef, nuts or nut butter, tofu
Low-fat dairy for example milk, yogurt, cheese
Fruits and veggies (fresh, frozen, canned or dried)
Whole grains such as whole wheat pasta, brown rice, quinoa,
and barley
o Visit www.choosemyplate.gov for more nutrition information
and activities for kids
Let’s Discuss
Let’s all stand up, walk around the room, and find a
new partner for this discussion. We are going to take
a few moments to share our experiences as role
models.
Describe an instance during the last week or so, when
you were a role model for the kids in your program.
Your example does not have to be related to food or
eating. How often does this happen? How do the kids
react, and how does this make you feel?
We will come back together as a group in 5 minutes to
share our ideas.
Think About Your Drink!
Let’s Discuss:
What types of bottled beverages do you
currently drink?
How many ounces of the beverage are in the
bottle you drink most often?
Think About Your Drink!
Key Messages:
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Kids are watching you! Role model healthy beverage choices.
Drink water in front of children and lead by example.
Offer water to children throughout the time they are in your care
Sports drinks and fruit punch are high in added sugar.
100% fruit juice is naturally high in sugar. Serve occasionally and in
small amounts.
• Water is very important to hydrate our bodies, but adds no “empty
calories.”
• Calories in beverages come from natural or added sugar.
• USDA recommends no more than 10 teaspoons (40 grams) of added
sugar per day.
Nutrition to Go Lesson and Display: Calories in Beverages
Eat Together
Children in your program may eat a snack, a meal, or both, during their
time with you. Let’s do a quick physical activity to find out more about
your program.
This activity is called “That’s Me!” If a statement applies to your
program, stand up and say “That’s Me!” and then sit back down to get
ready for the next statement:
• We serve snacks.
• We serve a supper/dinner meal.
• We eat family style.
• We plan cooking activities for kids in our program.
• Staff eats with kids during meals/snacks.
• Staff eats the same foods the kids are eating at meals/snacks.
• We talk about healthy foods at meals/snacks.
Eating Together
Here are some suggestions for snack time and mealtime:
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Eat with the children in your program.
Eat the same healthy foods the kids are eating.
Keep the conversation positive.
Talk about the healthy foods you enjoy, and the ways they help
you to be healthy.
• Drink water with the kids in your program.
• Do not use food as a reward (for good behavior or praise), or
withhold food as a punishment (for misbehaving or not following
directions.)
• Provide frequent opportunities for kids to taste healthy foods,
especially vegetables and fruits.
Preparing Food Together
Matters
Did you know, children are much more likely to try new
foods if they help to choose and to prepare the foods?
Children of all ages can help, even very young children.
Who can share one way a child in your program can
help to prepare a meal or a snack?
Now, who will share some challenges this might present?
What are some solutions to these challenges?
Let’s Prepare Simple
Recipes Together
Now that we have talked about ways to include kids in food
preparation, let’s work together to make some simple,
healthy snacks that children in your programs can help to
make.
We will all have an opportunity to taste the recipe(s)! Remember the tasting
rules:
 All positive comments are welcome!
 Keep negative comments to yourself.
 Be a member of the two bite club!
Snacktivity Time!
Here are some guidelines before we begin cooking:
1. Wash your hands thoroughly before we start.
2. Follow the recipe instructions.
3. Make sure each member of your group has a job
or role.
4. Each recipe is created to make enough samplesize portions so everyone can taste each recipe.
5. When everyone is finished cooking and cleaning
up, then we can taste each recipe prepared by
each group.
Tasting Rules
Enjoy tasting these recipes with children. Share
tasting rules before eating.
 Talk about trying new foods together.
 No one is allowed to say “ewww” or “yuck.”
 Only say nice things about the foods you are
tasting or keep your comments to yourself.
 Encourage kids to use descriptive words about
the foods they are tasting like crunchy, juicy,
sweet, sour, and crispy.
 Substitute recipe ingredients if a child in your
program has food allergies or is lactose intolerant.
Physical Activity and
Screen Time
Let’s Discuss:
Stand-up and find a partner who you have not yet worked with today.
As you walk together around the room discuss these questions:
What do you think the phrase “screen time” means?
What types of programs and activities do you view on your screens?
What impacts does screen time have on your program?
We will come back together in 5 minutes to share our ideas.
Turn Off Screens and Get
Moving with Physical Activity!
Screen time is time spent sitting and viewing a screen.
When you are viewing a screen you are not being
physically active. Types of screens include the television,
smartphone, computer, tablets, and video games.
Too much screen time can:
o Make it hard for children to sleep at night and get
adequate rest.
o Raise a child’s risk of attention problems, anxiety, and
depression.
o Raise a child’s risk of gaining weight.
Turn Off Screens and Get
Moving with Physical Activity!
Reduce screen time and get moving:
 Replace screen time with physical activity time, whether
it is going for a walk, participating in a sport, or playing
an active game.
 Be a role model, and reduce your screen time. Turn off
your screens, and get up and move with kids in your
program!
 Share ways to reduce screen time with parents and
caregivers. Kids need to move more at home too!
Nutrition to Go Lesson and Display: Turn Off Screens and Get
Moving with Physical Activity!
Reduce Screen Time
Let’s Discuss:
What are some ways you can get the children in
your program to use their screens less each day?
What types of policies are in place, or could be
created for screen time in your program?
How can you be a role model for kids to set an
example to limit their screen time each day?
Send Consistent Healthy
Behavior Messages
Sending a consistent message throughout a child’s day increases the
likelihood for healthy behavior change. Align your out of school
wellness policies with in-school wellness policies to send a consistent
message throughout each child’s day.
What are some ways school wellness policies can
positively impact your program?
 Consistent nutrition and physical activity messages for
youth
 Support for your program’s health and wellness practices
 Community awareness and support for your efforts
Send Consistent Healthy
Behavior Messages
What are some environmental factors which might
adversely impact your program’s wellness policies?
What are some strategies/solutions to overcome these
potential hurdles?
Engage the Community!
Serve on a school or community wellness committee.
Reach out to parents and caregivers with healthy behavior
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Newsletters
Healthy recipes
Physical activity suggestions for the whole family
E-mail messages
Healthy family event nights
Gardening activities. Kids are more likely to taste the
vegetables they help to grow.
Visit www.eatsmart.umd.edu for more nutrition and
physical activity information and tips!
Create a Healthy Environment
Here are some ways to create a healthy program
environment:
 Make a bulletin board or poster about eating
healthy foods and being physically active to
encourage healthy choices by your program
participants and their families.
 Start a walking or running club and get moving
together!
 Create a “healthy reading corner” where kids can
read books about healthy eating and physical
activity.
Create a Healthy Environment
Here are some more ways to create a healthy
program environment:
 Make drinking water accessible to kids for the
entire time they are in your care.
 Role model healthy behaviors.
 Find ways to encourage physical activity and
reduce screen time each day.
 Create a healthy celebration policy for your
program. Provide parents and caregivers with a list
of healthy foods and non-food items they can bring
in for special occasions.
Action Plan for Healthy
Change
We have worked together to reflect on our programs, discuss
strategies, and consider ways to make healthy changes and to role
model healthy behaviors for the kids in our programs. Now it’s time to
put these strategies into action!
Set achievable goals:
 List 2 new ways you plan to be a positive role model for youth in your
program.
 List 2 changes you plan to make in the way you provide snacks and/or
meals for the kids in your program.
 List 2 ways you plan to reduce screen time and increase physical activity for
the children in your program.
 List 2 ways you plan to engage parents and caregivers to share information
about healthy eating, role modeling, reducing screen time, and increasing
physical activity.
We will take 10 minutes for this activity, then come back together to share our
ideas.
Thank you for participating!
What are your questions?
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