Promoting Healthy Lifestyle
Eat smart. Be active. Live well.
Shaping NJ is the state partnership for the Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Program focusing on environmental and policy change around obesity and chronic disease prevention.
upcoming events
FEBRUARY
24-25
"It Takes a Village: Collaborations in Good Food and School Garden Education"
Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, NJ
The New Jersey Farm to School Network in collaboration with The AtlantiCare Foundation will be hosting this statewide conference. Topics include value added food in school, results of the NJ Farm to School survey, campus kitchens, and school garden program collaborations. Tickets for the conference are $40 for both days, $25 for one day, or $10 per day for students. Click here to register.
FEBRUARY
28
The “How To” of School Wellness Councils: Developing and Sustaining Your Team
3:00-4:15pm
The ShapingNJ School workgroup is proud to present this webinar for school wellness team members. This webinar will use a panel of school wellness team members to share their knowledge on the “how to”. Discussions will address: identifying key members for your wellness council, getting started, the role of school wellness councils and strategies to maintain momentum.
MARCH
4 to 6
93rd Annual New Jersey Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NJAHPERD) Convention
Ocean Place Resort & Spa
Long Branch, NJ
NJAHPERD’s annual convention is the premiere professional development for health and physical education teachers and future professionals. ShapingNJpartners may register for a booth at a discounted fee and attend the Monday keynote session, Action Based Learning: How Brain Research Links Movement to Learning, given by Jean Blaydes, as our guest. For more information, please click here.
MARCH
9
New Jersey Future Redevelopment Forum
8:00am-4:00pm
Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center
New Brunswick, NJ
ShapingNJ is pleased to be a partner of New Jersey Future’s annual Redevelopment Forum. The forum is a one-day educational symposium about ways to preserve our open land by focusing the state’s growth in areas already served by roads, municipal services, schools, transit and employment. Register here by February 21, 2012 for the best rates.
MARCH
23
4th Leaders’ Academy for Healthy Community Development
8:00am-1:00pm
Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health & Wellness
Mercerville, NJ
The New Jersey Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and the Office of Nutrition & Fitness, Department of Health & Senior Services invite community collaboration teams representing the health department, policy makers, local champions, citizens and other stakeholders to a skill building workshop. Following the Academy, teams will have an opportunity to apply for competitive mini grant funding to implement evidence based healthy community food or physical activity initiatives.
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