View this email in your browser<http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=4da9104d0b&e=813b514291> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d/images/2f56876b-ddf5-4a92-930a-06350b4ca9a8.jpeg] The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy cultivates research about connections between a just, sustainable food system and healthy eating and translates it into recommendations and resources for educators, policy makers, and community advocates. The Center focuses on schools as critical levers for learning and social change. 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Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) provides important opportunities for nutrition education to be combined with access to healthy foods, maximizing CNR’s ability to improve our children’s health. When children have motivation, knowledge, skills, and a supportive environment they are more enthusiastic about eating healthy meals and snacks. Our new issue brief <http://columbia.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=117412d1c7&e=813b514291> makes specific recommendations to Congress on how to strengthen nutrition education in child nutrition programs and lays out the science behind effective nutrition education policies. In the brief<http://columbia.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=0366d49e6b&e=813b514291>, we propose four aligned strategies to strengthen nutrition education in the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization: 1. Assess the effectiveness of and coordination between nutrition education within the Child Nutrition Programs as well as programs implemented through other agencies throughout the federal government that include nutrition education. 2. Provide additional resources, including breastfeeding support, for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to meet demand and maximize the cost savings of this program. 3. Support the implementation of updated nutrition standards and evidence-based nutrition education for young children in early childcare settings. 4. Implement the 2015 Farm to School Act to help meet school districts’ demand for nutrition education programs that teach children about food from the farm to the fork. 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Support cooking, tasting, gardening! http://bit.ly/1KUbLAj <http://columbia.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=96b5bf61c2&e=813b514291> @tischfoodcenter To maximize investment in #CNR2015 child nutrition programs we need good #nutritioneducation too! http://bit.ly/1KUbLAj<http://columbia.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=a8d272e1d7&e=813b514291> @tischfoodcenter Facebook: The 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization is a great opportunity to support nutrition education. Access to healthy meals + nutrition education can mean healthy kids eating more healthy food! In their new brief, @tischfoodcenter makes the case for maximizing federal investment in child nutrition programs by supporting more nutrition education. Read more here: http://bit.ly/1KUbLAj<http://columbia.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ebbdc27a6417de82e9320e64d&id=5d2754a878&e=813b514291>. 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