Community Nutrition Project: Rock Creek Elementary School Beaverton, Oregon

By: Casey Mast 2012-2013 School Year

Program Funded By Fuel Up to Play 60!

Fuel Up to Play 60 at Rock Creek Elementary School in Beaverton Oregon is led by program advisors Rosslynn Bennett (Cafeteria Manager) and Lori Meeks (PE Teacher).

•  Milk Mustache Booth •  Monthly Taste Testing •  Monthly Newsletters

•  Walk/Ride to School Day •  Monthly Physical

Activities

Title: 10 months 10 foods: A program to introduce new and healthy foods to elementary school children and to encourage parent involvement through monthly newsletters.

Goal: Increase elementary school children’s fruit and vegetable consumption by introducing a new food each month at school and providing monthly newsletters with tips about the school-featured foods to parents to encourage family involvement.

Program Objectives

1.  Students will consume at least 3 servings of fruits and vegetables per day.

2.  Children will help prepare dinner with parents at least once a week.

3.  All school children will participate in school demos and activities promoting fruits and vegetables at least once a year.

Target Audience: The 500 students from Rock Creek Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon and their families, that have access to the Internet, are the target audience for the newsletter service. Families who do not have access to the Internet unfortunately will not receive the service.

Grains

Fruits

Vegetables

Dairy

Monthly Newsletter Components:

Month Food Group Food Tasting

October Vegetable Squash

November Grain Quinoa

December Dairy Cheese

January Fruit Figs (subject to change)

February Dairy Smoothies

March Vegetable Sugar Snap Peas

April Grain Whole grain crackers with apple butter.

May Fruit Coconut (subject to change)

June All None

The Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

Precontemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance

Project Evaluation

Survey Monkey

No Costs!!