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The Children's Power Play! Campaign encourages children ages 9 to 11 and their families to eat more fruits and vegetables and be physically active for 60 minutes every day. The program provides information through schools, community youth organizations, supermarkets, food services and the media. The Children's Power Play! Campaign is funded by the USDA and targets schools and after-school programs serving low-income students.
Power Up for Learning - A Physical Activity Supplement to the School Ideas and Resource Kits for fourth- and fifth- grades NEW!
To order a Community Youth Organization kit for your qualifying after-school program, contact the regional Children’s Power Play! Campaign coordinator at dharris@scfymca.org.
The Network for a Healthy California — Children's Power Play! Campaign model was developed through careful formative research and proven effective through a large-scale evaluation study. The Campaign conducts process evaluation on an ongoing basis and uses data from the biennial California Children’s Health Eating and Exercise Practices Survey to continue to assess its effectiveness. More evaluation information is at:
Children's Power Play! and Harvest of the Month Workbooks NEW!
To receive the Children’s Power Play! and Harvest of the Month workbooks for fourth or fifth grades, please fill out the materials request form or the online material request form. Deb Harris, the region's Children’s Power Play! Coordinator, will send you a PDF-formatted document for download.
Children's Power Play! Resources for the Re-Think Your Drink Campaign:
As an additional resource, the NNFC has combined Children’s Power Play! Campaign activities with "Sugar Savvy" tools. This provides multiple lessons on Rethink Your Drink and Children’s Power Play! activities designed for 9 to 11 year olds. For more information on how to adapt Children’s Power Play! activities, contact the regional Children’s Power Play! office at (707) 543-5810 ext. 204. The “GO FARTHER” sections of the activities have a variety of ideas and suggestions to support Sugar Savvy lessons, including:
Community Alliance with Family Farmers: http://www.caff.org
Harvest of the Month: http://www.harvestofthemonth.com/
California Dairy Council: http://www.dairycouncilofca.org/
Master Gardener's: http://groups.ucanr.org/sonomamg/
Project LEAN: http://www.californiaprojectlean.org/
Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
Deb Harris
Children's Power Play! Coordinator, Northcoast Region
(707) 543-5810 ext. 204
dharris@healthcollaborative.org
Children's Power Play! Campaign is administered through the Sonoma County Family YMCA .
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