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ASTPHND Salad Bars to Schools Webpage Now Live!
| | The ASTPHND Fruit and Vegetable Council is playing a lead role in  promoting the First Lady's Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools Initiative. The goal of this campaign is to launch salad bar programs in at least 6,000 schools around the nation within three years. ASTPHND's salad bar page presents information, resources and tools that state fruit and vegetable nutrition coordinators can use to move this exciting campaign forward in their states. Click here to go to the ASTPHND salad bar web page.
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Call for a Volunteer to Represent ASPTHND on NTI Advisory Committee
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The National Training Institute (NTI) for Child Care Health Consultants has invited ASTPHND to appoint a representative to serve on its National Advisory Committee. This Committee includes representatives from major national child care and child health organizations and agencies.
 Committee members are asked to facilitate links with other national agencies and organizations, assist with marketing and promotion of NTI's program, and identify state-level participants for NTI's workshops. The Committee meets annually and as needed by phone and email. The commitment is for one year.
If you are interested in volunteering to represent ASTPHND on this important committee, or if you would like more information, contact Lynda Alfred.
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Get Involved in ASTPHND
| | The ASTPHND Communications and Membership Committees are looking for volunteers. Please consider joining one of these important committees!
The Communications Committee is responsible for increasing ASTPHND's visibility and enhancing its strategic image. The Committee develops communications for the public and for our national partners to articulate the Association's goals, objectives, activities and accomplishments. The Committee works mainly via email and teleconferences. Interested in joining the committee? Contact Cyndi Atterbury.
The Membership Committee works to involve members in ASTPHND's programs and to increase members' skills and knowledge. The Membership Committee:
- keeps members informed about ASTPHND's programs and activities,
- offers mentoring opportunities,
- provides orientation for new members,
- promotes membership involvement, and
- develops members' leadership skills.
Members of the Committee plan new member orientation and networking activities for the ASTPHND Annual Meeting, mentor new members, and organize other activities that encourage membership and involvement in ASTPHND. The Membership Committee meets monthly by phone. How about joining this committee? Contact Allison McGuigan.
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Save the Date for the 2012 ASTPHND Annual Meeting
| | Plan on coming to beautiful Traverse City, Michigan for the ASTPHND Annual Meeting June 10 - 12, 2012. This gathering is an excellent opportunity to network with your colleagues and gain new information and skills. You'll also have time to bicycle, fish, and shop! You can learn about Traverse City goings-on as well as Annual Meeting details as they unfold on Cyndi Atterbury's Annual Meeting blog.
 This year we will also offer two additional workshops on June 13, one for state fruit and vegetable coordinators and a second meeting focusing on breastfeeding, in conjunction with the United States Breastfeeding Committee. Click here for information on the breastfeeding workshop and here for information on the fruit and vegetable training at the 2011 Annual Meeting.
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Listen to an Audio Recording of our September
New Member Orientation Call
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On Tuesday, September 13 the Membership Committee held a second orientation teleconference call for new members. The purpose of the teleconference was to impart the most basic and critical information new members need to know about the Association. You can listen to an audio recording of the call by clicking here.
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2012 ACHIEVE Grants Program
| | The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) has announced its 2012 Action Communities for Innovation and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE) grants program. Up to five new ACHIEVE communities will be selected to implement policy, systems and environmental change strategies and to enhance or develop a Community Health Action Response Team (CHART). Applications are due November 7. Click here for complete application information.
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Upcoming Webinars and Conferences | | The events page on ASTPHND's website highlights  upcoming webinars, teleconferences and in-person conferences. Do you know about an event that other ASTPHND members might want to attend? Please email the details to Allison McGuigan.
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Robin Stanton Publishes Editorial
on Breastfeeding Support
| | ASTPHND member and immediate past chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee Robin Stanton published a guest editorial in the July 2011 edition of the Journal of Perinatal Education. Robin's editorial is called, A Road Map for Change: Ensuring that Women Have Breastfeeding Support.
In her editorial, Robin wrote, "The launch of The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding provides an opportunity for a society-wide approach in removing barriers that make it difficult for many women to succeed. Childbirth educators are urged to use these action steps as a springboard to influence lasting change so that all women have the opportunity to breastfeed their children."
Click here to purchase and download the complete editorial, or contact Robin at the Oregon Department of Human Services.
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F&V Council Surveys Coordinators on
Salad Bars to Schools Involvement
| |  In August, ASTPHND surveyed state fruit and vegetable nutrition coordinators to find out how active their states are in the Let's Move Salad Bar to Schools Initiative, how involved coordinators are in that effort, and what resources coordinators need to help move forward their state's salad bar program.
From the 31 coordinators who responded, we learned that while most were familiar with the Salad Bars to Schools Initiative, they were not actively involved with the program. Most reported that there had not been salad bar trainings in their states. Few coordinators have been involved in efforts to raise money for schools to purchase salad bars and in activities to generate support for and build awareness of the initiative.
Coordinators were very interested in our assistance in moving the initiative to the next level in their states. They were particularly interested in having access to online guides and FAQs they could download and distribute as well as key messages and talking points. They were looking forward to the next round of salad bar mini-grants, which ASTPHND will award in early 2012.
For more information and to view the complete survey results, contact Joan Atkinson.
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NACCHO Releases Local Health Departments Profile
| | The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) recently published the 2010 National Profile of Local Health Departments report. This report provides a comprehensive view of local public health infrastructure and practice. This year's Profile includes information about local health departments in a number of areas, including workforce, services and activities, and access to health care.
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HHS Announces $224 Million to Support States' Home Visiting Programs
| | On September 22, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that her agency was allocating $224 million to help at-risk families voluntarily receive home visits from nurses and social workers to improve maternal and child health, child development, school readiness, economic self-sufficiency, and child abuse prevention. HHS awarded a total of $100 million to states that demonstrated the interest and capacity to expand and enhance the development of their home visiting efforts. Click here for more information.
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About ASTPHND
| | The Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors (ASTPHND) is a non-profit membership organization that develops leaders in public health nutrition who work to strengthen policies, programs and environments so everyone can make healthy food choices and achieve healthy, active lifestyles. We seek to create new environmental norms where healthy eating and active living are the easy and natural choices for all Americans. We welcome your involvement in our growing organization. Learn more about us at About ASTPHND.
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