Alessandra Sommer (SEBS’23, Nutritional Sciences, with a Dietetics option) began her work with NJHKI on the Rutgers Culture of Health School Program, which fosters and promotes lifestyles centered around physical activity and nutritional literacy for youth. Alessandra began by teaching classes, with supervision, to pre-K students in the Edison Townships Public Schools. By the end […]
NJHKI Delivers Nutrition Curriculum at National Forging Youth Resilience Summit in Colorado
This March, the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) partnered with Forging Youth Resilience (FYR) to deliver nutrition curriculum for FYR’s national network of 24 clubs at the FYR Local Club Summit in Denver, CO. FYR is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower young people to build physical and mental strength by supplying […]
FranklinFit Culinary Nutrition
FranklinFit is a free fitness program for Franklin youth, offered by Franklin Township Police Department. Its goal is to foster positive relationships between the community youth and the police department as well as a safe space for kids to convene and workout afterschool. The program has expanded from one class once a week to two […]
Healthy Helpers Virtual Culinary Literacy Program
The New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative developed a virtual culinary literacy program designed for fourth- and fifth-graders. Vegetable intakes among children remain below-recommended levels despite numerous nutrition-education-based interventions. Research has shown that children’s vegetable intake may be better influenced through experiential learning opportunities and skill development in lieu of traditional knowledge-based classes. Find the lesson […]
NJHKI presented virtual culinary literacy program at FNCE 2022
NJHKI’s Dr. Peggy Policastro and Alison Brown and NJHKI Ambassador Jenny Campbell presented at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ FNCE 2022 about the Healthy Helpers virtual culinary literacy program. The Healthy Helpers was a school-based virtual intervention, supported by evidence-based practices of how virtual culinary literacy programs can improve vegetable intake and dietary behaviors […]
