Kids First Provides Support & Technical Assistance for All Rhode Island Health & Wellness Committees

Kids First staff members Karin Wetherill (kwetherill@cox.net) and Carole Toselli (toselli@cox.net) are available to help your district's or school's Health & Wellness Committee. Karin and Carole can:

Help your Health & Wellness Committee access great resources

Share what is working in other districts
(see Meeting Minutes & Profiles this page).

Facilitate your meetings
.

Seek answers to your questions about RI State Laws and Policies.

Help schedule and customize Kids First educational programs for staff, parents and other community members
(visit Programs & Events to learn more).

Listen and provide feedback about your district needs.

 

MEETING MINUTES: Rhode Island Wellness Committees

Please help inspire and encourage other RI Wellness Committees to expand, increase or improve upon their efforts to sustain healthy school communities. Please contact Karin or Carole if you have Minutes to share. Thank you.

Bristol Warren: Oct 2008, Dec 2008, Jan 2009, May 2009, June 2009

Narragansett: Jan 09,

Pawtucket: Wellness Website

Newport: Oct 2006, Nov 2006, Dec 2006, May 2007, Oct 2007, March 2008, Dec 2008, Feb 2009, April 2009,

Lincoln: June 2009

Portsmouth: May 2009, October 2009

 

 

 

 

PROFILES of Rhode Island Wellness Advocates

Lincoln High School's Alexandria Roque, Passing Kindness

Marylyn Sepe, La Perche Elementary's Game On

Hathaway's Healthy Kids Program

Lincoln's Central Elementary Table Hosting Team

Central Falls Students Civics Project - "Changing School Lunch"

 

 

LINKS & ARTICLES

Rhode Island's Coordinated School Health Program:www.thriveri.org

Amber Waves article on Nutrition, Participation & Cost in the National School Lunch Program

Rhode Island Approved Product List for School Vending and A La Carte Foods in Rhode Island (updated monthly)

Lunch Matters: How To Feed Our Children Better - The Story of the Berkeley School Lunch Initiative

Transforming School Nutrition: Better Meals for Pawtucket Students - synopsis of a three year Kids First project, funded by the Rhode Island Foundation, to change school meals and food vending for the better in Pawtucket schools.

US Department of Health & Human Services Website for Healthy Living - activities, news, resources