AAPI

Adopt a School

Childhood Obesity

Awareness Campaign

Resources You Will Need

Money…

&

…Volunteers!

Money

About $5 per student

mainly for promotional items

(T-shirts, Pedometers etc.)

500 students - $2,500

1000 students - $5,000

RESOURCES

T-shirts: $3 to $4

Pedometer: $1 or less http://www.pedometersusa.com

Educational material – use this free

website and any other sources you

can find

http://snap.ntis.gov/Default.aspx

RESOURCES

Educational materials from local health

department ChooseMyPlate magnetic stickers, placemats

PALA (Presidential Active Lifestyle Award)https://www.presidentschallenge.org/tools-resources/forms.shtml

5-2-1-0Hand outs

Book marks

Fruits, Seasonal plants / seeds etc. To give to students to start a kitchen garden

RESOURCES

Need 3 to 5 committed AAPI physicians

If school picks a week day for the event, they should be

prepared to take part or all of the day off

Dietician(s) from the community or your workplace

HOW TO ORGANIZE

the School Event

Based on the Pilot program on

April 6, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

HOW TO…

Once you have the money and the

resources as outlined above,

Call your local health department

Set up meeting to include the Director &

his staff and 2-3 AAPI physicians

Explain AAPI’s Be Fit. Be Cool.Childhood Obesity Awareness Campaign

Interactive, fun educational activities

Free t-shirts/ visors and pedometers

Walkathon

Request them to select one or more

or 10 schools that have high

prevalence of childhood obesity

Elementary or middle schools preferred

HOW TO…

HOW TO…

Once the school is selected,

call the school Principal

set up a meeting at the school and

include

school principal

physical education teacher

cafeteria manager and

PTA coordinator

HOW TO…

The school principal will choose a

date, likely after summer vacation

Aug / Sept / Oct…

Since September is National

Childhood Obesity Awareness

Month, try to do in September if you

can

HOW TO…

Principal may choose a weekend or a

week day

Weekend

Convenient for AAPI volunteers

Lower turnout

Week day

Entire school will attend

Few or no parents

Volunteers will need to take time off from

work

HOW TO…

SET DATE and TIME for event

School principal is entrusted with

Getting the word out to students and

parents

Ensure maximum participation

Making the auditorium and playground

available for the event

HOW TO…

Consider inviting

Governor

State Secretary for Health

Mayor

Officers of City Health and Education

Department

Major sponsors

HOW TO…

Scope of the event

Interactive, fun educational activities

Show and Tell

ChooseMyPlate Demo

5-2-1-0 messageSimple, brief, clear

5 min Dance / Zumba session

Free promotional items (T-shirts, Visors/ Ribbon pins/

bookmarks, pedometers), Fresh fruit snacks,

Walkathon

Be flexible

May be able to conduct only some of these… THAT’S

OK!

DAY OF SCHOOL

EVENT

DAY OF…

At Registration table, each child receives a

bag with

Yellow T-shirt (promotional item)

Educational materials

Pedometer

Bag with plant seeds for kitchen garden

Main Hall / Auditorium

Request speakers to limit speeches

to 2 minutes or less!

Show and Tell – very popular

ChooseMyPlate Demo

5-2-1-0 message

Simple. Brief. Clear.

5 min Dance / Zumba session

DAY OF…

One Mile Walkathon

Clown-Balloon man as lead

All join in one mile Walkathon in school play

ground

Check-Out table

Children receive

Fresh fruits, nutri-bars, water bottles.

Tomato plants /bean seeds to take home to start a

kitchen garden

DAY OF…

Talk about ChooseMyPlate and using food models

Choose My Plate

PALA Presidential Active Lifestyle Award

Talk about PALA – Presidential Active Lifestyle Award.

School has to have a minimum of 500 students to sign up

for this award.

Print copies of PALA to share with parents / teachershttps://www.presidentschallenge.org/tools-resources/forms.shtml

Talk about 5-2-1-0

5 servings of fruits and vegetables

2 hours or less of recreational screen time

1 hour or more of physical activity

0 sugary drinks (more water and low fat milk)

KITCHEN GARDENTalk about starting a kitchen garden.

Use live models . Encourage them to plant the seeds from their registration bag

Help them choose from rainbow colored fruits & vegetables which

are loaded with nutrients, vitamins, minerals

EAT RIGHT

SHOW & TELL

Dietician’s SHOW and TELL

Popular with children

models of good and bad foods

a lump of FAT

test tubes of sugar to demonstrate sugar

content in sodas

Prizes for picking healthy foods

Make Fitness FUN!

Dance as a form of exercise

Recruit

School PE teacher

Zumba volunteer

Dance and move to fun music

Clown-Balloon man

To lead the kids on the Walkathon

Make Fitness FUN !

Tulsa Mayor’s wife – Ms Victoria Bartlett told the children a story

while quizzing them

“I spoke to the children at Penn Elementary School equating the

story of the Three Little Pigs to building a strong body and a healthy

life. The Big Bad Wolf represented illness, disease and scary death,

and the building options of straw, sticks and bricks represented the

choices of foods we eat. With poor eating habits, our bodies are no

stronger than a home built with straw or sticks and susceptible to

being brought down by illness and disease. By eating a complete

diet of healthy foods we are building our bodies to be as strong as

bricks and we will be able to resist the illnesses that could tear them

down. Well, the kids enjoyed the interactive story. I thought it was

better than laboring them with a string of statistics on childhood

obesity.”

WEAR YELLOWYellow for Obesity awareness

Color of T-shirts and promotional items will be

Sunshine YellowYellow is as energizing as exercise which we are

promoting for childhood obesity. Exercise is good

for bones just like sunlight

Yellow represents energy, hope, optimism and joy

Wear Yellow Day 12/12 and Month - Sept

Proclamation by Mayors as Childhood Obesity Awareness days

Initial proclamation in Tulsa, OK of

12-12-12 as “World Childhood Obesity Awareness Day”

Subsequent proclamation in Garland, Plano and Irving , TX of

6-15-13 as Childhood Obesity Awareness day

AAPI childhood obesity awareness day will be observed on 12-12.

Wear Yellow on day of December 12 every year !

Proclamation by President Obama of September as

Childhood Obesity Awareness month

Wear Yellow in whole month of September !

Promotional itemsRecommend Sunshine Yellow be incorporated into

promotional items

T-shirts

Visors

Yellow walking ribbon shoes

Shirt pins

Book marks

5-2-1-0 message

ChooseMy Plate

All to include Be Fit. Be Cool. and AAPI, COAC and

local Chapter logos or a combination of these – be

creative! Major sponsor’s logo as indicated .

Pilot program at Penn Elementary School, Tulsa, OK April 6, 2013

Please take school/parents’ permission if sharing pictures

Pilot Program - Auditorium

Show & Tell – Good & Bad foods

How much sugar in a can of soda ?

Wear Yellow on day of Dec 12 and whole month of

September to promote Childhood Obesity Awareness

One mile walk with Banners

One Mile Walk with Banners

One Mile walk with kids

Balloonman entertaining kids wearing yellow for

childhood obesity awareness

50 States USA flag We hope to adopt schools from as many of the 50 States as possible

Let’s join hands to make

FITNESS FUN and COOL

Protect our Children – Our Future!