HEAL November News: Local Wellness Achievements

November 2012 Newsletter

In This Issue

Resource of the Month: NH CATCH Kids Club 5-Year Report

Ashland HEAL Coalition Hosts Inaugural Wellness Fair

Speaker Presentations Now Available

NHPR: Overcoming Obesity in the Granite State

Thorntons Ferry Elementary Sets World Record

Milford High Flash Mob Raises Exercise Awareness

Resource of the Month

NH CATCH Kids Club 5-Year Report: Embracing Healthy Out-of-School Time in New Hampshire

In celebration of all of our CATCH Kids Club afterschool and summer camp sites during the past five years of implementing the Growing Up Healthy Grant from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, we've highlighted five of our sites that have empowered us along the journey.

Prepare to be inspired!

Second Annual NH Healthy Meals Cooking Challenge

November 17

11:00 - 1:00pm

Hospitality Center Southern New Hampshire University.

Sponsored by:

The NH Farm to School Program would like to invite you all to attend! This challenge is open to high school culinary students as well as CACFP and public school food service workers.

Teams are challenged to create a healthy school lunch that meets current USDA nutrition guidelines and utilizes local foods in the recipe.

This years local ingredient is apples.

They are also looking for judges to help determine the winners. If you would like to be a judge (which means you get to sample all of the recipes!) please contact Stacey.Purslow@unh.edu.

End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge

Submit your brilliant and creative ideas to end childhood obesity for the chance to win 10,000 to get started... and advice from experts.

Click here for more information on the challenge.

In The News...

Ashland HEAL Coalition Hosts

Helping organize the event were (left to right) Donna Quinn from the Pubic Health Network of Central New Hampshire, Ashland Town Administrator Paul Branscombe, coalition co-chair Fran Newcomb, and Dr. Mardie Burckes-Miller of Plymouth State University. (Donna Rhodes)

Inaugural Wellness Fair

ASHLAND - A generous HEAL Grant, promoting Healthy Eating, Active Living, brought the first of what is hoped to be an annual wellness fair to Ashland in October, and it was met with great enthusiasm by local residents.

Ashland Town Administrator Paul Branscombe worked to bring the HEAL grant to the town, and the newly formed Ashland HEAL Coalition then joined forces with Plymouth State University and the Public Health Network of Central New Hampshire to organize the event.

Speaker Presentations are Now Available

Featured speaker, Amanda Navarro, Associate Director, PolicyLink, addresses attendees at October 12 event in Concord

Presentations are now available to download from our recent event: Promoting Equity, Transforming Communities and Improving Health.

This event was co-convened by HEAL, the NH Health & Equity Partnership and Granite State Future, and sponsored by the HNH Foundation.

Download presentations online...

NHPR The Exchange: Overcoming Obesity in the Granite State

HEAL Director, Terry Johnson, was recently featured as a guest speaker on the popular NH Public Radio show The Exchange hosted by Laura Knoy during a segment titled "Overcoming Obesity in the Granite State".

Along with Dr. Travis Harker, president-elect of the New Hampshire Medical Society and a family doctor at the Concord Family Health Center, they discuss the obesity epidemic and the newly released "F as in Fat" report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health. Visit the NHPR site where you can download the interview.

Click here for additional news on the HEAL NH Website

Thorntons Ferry Elementary School Sets World Record

Courtesy Photo: Students at Thorntons Ferry School take part in JAM to set a world record

Merrimack Journal: It's official. Thorntons Ferry School has set a world record in fitness.

In 2011, Thorntons Ferry School in Merrimack, was awarded the first HEAL (Healthy Eating, Active Living) Award as part of the New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award Program.

Since then, Thorntons Ferry School hasn't stopped moving forward.

On Sept. 27, more than 500 students and staff joined 1.3 million other JAM-mers from all over the country to take "Just A Minute" (JAM) out of their day for a fitness break and helped set a world record.

Milford High Flash Mob Raises Exercise Awareness

Nashua Telegraph: A flash mob from Milford High School performed at the Pumpkin Festival.

Nashua Telegraph: Crowds stopped and stared at the surprise flash mob dancing near Town Hall at the Milford Oval on the evening of Oct. 6.

The flash mob was formed by a group of Milford High School students to raise awareness for the organization Fuel Up to Play 60, founded by the NFL and the National Dairy Council. It helps kids get more involved with exercise and to play for 60 minutes a day to get active.

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Thank you for your partnership and continued support.

Sincerely,

Terry Johnson, Director

Healthy Eating Active Living NH

www.healnh.org

tjohnson@healthynh.com

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Concord, New Hampshire 03301

603.415.4273

About HEAL

HEAL envisions a New Hampshire where all residents enjoy health and quality of life through healthy eating and active living.

Our core mission is to work in collaboration with our partners to inspire, advance and support policies, systems and environmental changes to promote healthy people in healthy places throughout New Hampshire.

HEAL started in 2008 and is led by the Foundation for Healthy Communities, a non-profit New Hampshire organization focused on improving health and health care through innovative partnerships.

HEAL Funders

Funding is provided by the HNHfoundation, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation, Endowment for Health, NH Charitable Foundation, NH Department of Health and Human Services, and Convergence Partnership Fund of Tides Foundation.