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From: Katherine Bishop [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 9:06 AM

To: NANA Coalition; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]

Subject: Fw: Voices for Healthy Kids Food Marketing in Schools Toolkit Available



Here is a terrific new resource from our partners at Voices for Healthy Kids. Please share it widely to help support healthier school nutrition environments. Below are some model social media posts to help you share it with your followers.



 Twitter:



Great new tool from our partners @Voices4HK to help you stop unhealthy food marketing in schools: http://bit.ly/1qy8iOh



Unhealthy food marketing in schools undermines parents, nutrition education, school food improvements & kids’ health. http://bit.ly/1qy8iOh



The vast majority of foods marketed to children (including in schools) are unhealthy. Let’s change that: http://bit.ly/1qy8iOh



A national survey found that 67% of schools have advertising for foods that are high in fat and/or sugar. Help change that: http://bit.ly/1qy8iOh



Facebook (use photo from https://www.pinterest.com/cspinutrition/food-marketing-in-schools/):



This terrific new tool from our partners at Voices for Healthy Kids can help you stop unhealthy food marketing in schools: http://bit.ly/1qy8iOh. Unhealthy school marketing undermines parents, school food improvements, nutrition education & kids’ health.



Companies spend over $150 million a year marketing (mostly unhealthy) foods and beverages to kids in schools.  They market junk food through posters/signs, fronts of vending machines, ads on buses, scoreboards, corporate-sponsored educational materials, team sponsorships, in-school television ads, etc.  Please share this tool with your PTA, community organizations, parents and others committed to children’s health and wellbeing.

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Greetings:



On behalf of the Voices for Healthy Kids team, we are excited to share with you the toolkit on food marketing in schools entitled “Don’t Sell Us Short.”  In this toolkit, you will find tactics to eliminate unhealthy food and beverage marketing in schools and on buses so that kids can develop healthy food preferences and habits to last a lifetime.  To receive access to the toolkit, click here<https://volunteer.heart.org/apps/vfhk/Pages/VFHK-Toolkit-Form.aspx>.



This toolkit is a compilation of facts, sample materials, and guidance on how to build, engage, and mobilize a social change movement in your state or community on this critical issue.  The toolkit is wrapped together by a unique theme designed to maximize interest and action to create and support a healthy learning environment for kids.  Together with a collection of parallel toolkits on other proven social change strategies to help kids live more active, healthful lives, we want to help focus and energize advocates around the country.



This toolkit is for you to use and share.  Just as important, we want to hear back from you.  We consider our toolkits to be dynamic documents.  We want to update, improve, and add to them based on the insights and lessons in the field.  Please share back with us your comments<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3C3PSSW> for the next version.



Voices for Healthy Kids is a collaboration between the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Together with a diverse array of partners, we are working to engage, organize and mobilize advocates to improve the health of their communities and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.  There are now more than one-in- three children and teens in the U.S. who are overweight or obese.  Voices for Healthy Kids is focused on advocating for policy and social change at the community, state, and federal levels in order to help young people eat healthier foods and be more active.  Find out more at www.voicesforhealthykids.org.



If you want to learn more about Voices for Healthy Kids, we have many opportunities to share resources, to get involved in advocacy efforts at the state and local level as well as join us in support of reversing youth obesity through policy and advocacy efforts. For more information, please email us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.



We look forward to hearing from you.





Jill Birnbaum, JD

Vice President, State Advocacy & Public Health

Executive Director, Voices for Healthy Kids



7272 Greenville Avenue  I  Dallas, Texas 75231

P 612-202-1980

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