Healthy Eating at Romano Circle

Pilot Project to help low-to-moderate income children access healthy foods to combat childhood obesity May 2005-December 2006


 

Healthy Eating and Active Living With My Family

 

Children and their families picked-their-own strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples and pumpkins, and attended the local farmers’ market together. For some of these children it was their first time on a farm.

 

Healthy Eating and Active Living With My Peers

 

Resident children now have their own youth garden. They decide what is planted. They weed. They harvest. They cook. They are proud of their garden and love to show it off to guests.

 

Healthy Eating and Active Living At My School

 

 

We are working with area health care providers, school administration, parents, students, and non-profit experts in the field to improve the wellness policy in the elementary school most of the children attend.

  

 

Healthy Eating and Active Living With My Neighbors

 

 

Healthy community meals of new recipes prepared by resident adults and children, smoothie parties, trail mix making, and recipe sharing are community-wide efforts that bring every family together to fight obesity.

  

 

Healthy Eating by Design
seeks to increase access to healthy foods for children in low-income communities and schools. Twelve community partnerships were selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to test approaches to provide affordable, healthy and appealing foods in the places where children live, learn, and play. The partnerships are administered by Active Living by Design projects. Active Living by Design is a $15.5-million national program based at the School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Click here to see our final project report.

Click here for more information about Active Living by Design.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., is the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care.

Healthy Eating at Romano Circle in West Lebanon, NH, is administered by the Upper Valley Trails Alliance, an Active Living by Design and Healthy Eating by Design grantee. The project is coordinated by Lisa Johnson at Vital Communities’ Valley Food & Farm program. Other essential partners include the Lebanon Housing Authority, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital Community Health Program, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service, Women’s Infants & Children (WIC), NH Cooperative Extension, and of course, the residents themselves.

 

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