The Napa County Office of Education and partners have received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to run a comprehensive physical activity, health and nutrition program to directly serve 2,000 K–8th grade students in 20 elementary and middle schools.
The program will also expand the CalSERVES’ Healthy Behavior Learning Centers to support the implementation of comprehensive PE, health, and nutrition education in after school across California. This program will provide support to after school programs across the state in their efforts to provide high quality PE and nutrition programming to those most in need.
HBI provides each partner school with
- physical and nutrition education material and supplies
- funding for innovative physical education and nutrition instruction
- training for staff members
- equipment to support the curricula
- follow up coaching, feedback, and evaluation of progress
The Learning Centers will offer training, site visits, and follow up coaching to all California state-funded after school programs, impacting 300 additional staff each year and exposing them to best practices in physical and nutrition education particularly in the after school setting.
This program will fill the gap created by insufficient PE time during the school day, which in turn will help students make progress towards a healthier lives.
The first Healthy Behaviors training is on 1/20/2011 in Santa Rosa, CA is open to all after school staff in any state funded after school program in California. Registration is now open:
www.sonomacan.org/trainings.php
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