NJHKI Student Ambassadors Anjali Patel, Hannah Briggs, Helen Yanes, Jenna DeSimone, Rachel Ho, Alyssa Guidetti, Sheryn Jacinto, Holly Dorsett, and Lindsey Hardmeyer joined Dr. Peggy Policastro and Alison Brown in presenting abstracts at the 2024 New Jersey Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics conference at Rutgers University on April 25th, 2024.
NJHKI OpEds on Nutrition and Wellness
NJHKI has had three OpEds published that discuss various issues surrounding nutrition and wellness, including universal free breakfast and lunch in public schools, the impact of virtual school on child wellness, and the detriments of skipping breakfast. Read the full articles at the links provided.
NJHKI presented FranklinFit research at FNCE 2023
NJHKI’s Dr. Peggy Policastro and and IFNH Ambassadors Hannah Briggs, Alyssa Guidetti, and Rachel Ho presented at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ FNCE 2023 in Denver, CO this past October. FranklinFit research was presented to show that a whole child wellness program through community policing and public health can be used as a platform […]
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 […]
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 […]
