WELCOME HEALTH & WELLNESS COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Your role as advocates for school health is very important and Kids First is proud to support you and your efforts. Let us know how we can help you achieve your goals!

 

 

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, June 2009, September 2009,

Lincoln: June 2009

Portsmouth: May 2009, October 2009, December 2009, March 2010

 

 

 

 

PROFILES of Rhode Island Wellness Advocates

Lincoln High School's Alexandria Roque, Passing Kindness

Smithfield: Marylyn Sepe, La Perche Elementary's Game On!

Portsmouth: Hathaway's Healthy Kids Program

Lincoln's Central Elementary Table Hosting Team

Central Falls Students Civics Project - "Changing School Lunch"

Bristol-Warren: Exercise Breaks in the Classroom

North Providence: All Ages Learn About Nutrition

Foster Glocester: Whole Grain Education

Lincoln: First Class Cafe

Portsmouth: Middle School Players & Their Whole Grain Skit

Barrington: Kids Cook Real Food

Providence: Healthy Corner Store

Providence: Breakfast Promotion

Coventry: Better (and Bigger!) Fundraising

 

LINKS & ARTICLES of Interest to Wellness Committees

Students Taking Charge website

May 2010 - White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Report to the President

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

April 2010: Too Fat to Fight - Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of U.S. Schools

April 2010: Studies Link Physical Activity During the School Day & Better Academic Performance

March 2010: Education Week: The Connection Between Health and Education - a new study out from the Equity Group links health and academic achievement

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

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