As leaders around the US respond to First Lady Michelle Obama’s call to end childhood obesity in a generation and Congress prepares to take up the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, five high school students from Chicago will bring a healthy school lunch they created to Congress.

Please join the students in speaking up for better school food by taking action in three simple ways.

The Chicago public high school students from Tilden Community Career Academy who created the winning school lunch in HSC’s Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest will present their meal at a Capitol Hill briefing on the future of school food on March 2. At the briefing, Cooking up Change National Honorary Co-Chairs Karen Duncan and Christie Vilsack will speak along with the student chefs and HSC’s Rochelle Davis.

The great-tasting lunch of chicken-vegetable jambalaya with jalapeno cornbread and cucumber salad will also be served in the House of Representatives cafeteria for those who are unable to attend the briefing. The meal exceeds current school food nutrition standards and was created on a very tight budget. Last month, it was served in high schools across Chicago

Please take a moment to urge your Congressional leaders to join us for school lunch on Capitol Hill on March 2 and support a strong, well-funded reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, making healthy meals a priority every day.

HSC is raising the funds necessary to bring this healthy, student-designed lunch to Congress. Can you help make this possible by contributing to the trip? Even a small donation will help support a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students and send a powerful message to policy-makers about the need for fresh, healthy school food.

Thank you for joining this effort to change the future of school food!

What’s Health Got to Do with Transition? EVERYTHING!

Join us for this live web cast – March 23 @ 3:30pm CST

1.5 hours of Continuing Education Units (CEU) are available.

Please sign up at http://www.escweb.net/sd_esa/

Health Impacts All Aspects of Life: School Performance, Employment Choices and Productivity! Success in the classroom, within the community, and on the job requires that young people with special health care needs stay healthy.  This webinar will: 1) Provide an understanding the impact of health & wellness on school performance; 2) Share Tools and information teachers can use; 3) Learn which health care skills are essential to a student’s future education and employment and 4) Share strategies and resources to incorporate those skills in the classroom and Individualize Education Plans (IEP) or 504 plans.   

Presented by     Patti Hackett MEd, Mallory Cyr, BFA and Ceci Shapland, RN,MSN

 from the Healthy & Ready to Work National Resource Center

Make the presentation your own:  Email by March 10 to Melissa.Flor@state.sd.us

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March 23, 2010 at 3:30 pm CST

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SDSNA Board Mtg. Minutes 07-20-09

We heard updates from the Department of Social Services as well as the Department of Health.  A tour of the Capitol followed as well as an orientation and advocacy session where we learned how a bill becomes a law, effective lobbying strategies and how to testify before a legislative committee.  Later in the evening we had an Hors D’Oeuvres session with the legislators in which we were able to discuss nursing issues on a one to one basis.

On Tuesday morning we had a booth in the Rotunda where we discussed that School Nursing is more than “Band Aids and Butterflies”.  At the booth, we were able to hand out water with the School Nurse label and share about the role of the school nurse.  We talked to nursing students as well as legislators.

It was a great chance to learn how our government works and the more we learn our legislators the better we can advocate for the health of the school children in our state.

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