nurses and health educators 
NH FTS supports healthy kids initiatives. Research on nutrition education methods increasingly suggests that there is a link between long term healthy eating behaviors and experiential learning that begins early in life. The more a child is involved with food, through gardening, farming, cooking or other "real life" food experiences, the more likely he or she will adopt healthy eating behaviors as a life long practice. As a health educator, you are in a unique position to integrate those components into your daily routines.
Here's how you can get involved!
- Find out if your school is participating in the NH FTS Program.
- Talk with your school's food service, teachers and administrators about the Program.
- Talk with other nurses and health educators about the Program.
- Encourage your food service director to purchase locally produced foods.
- Encourage your administrators to reduce or eliminate junk food throughout the school and promote healthy snack items.
- Use experiential learning in nutrition education to foster healthy eating behaviors.
- Help connect students to the food system so they can better to how their food choices affect their health and the world around them.
- Check out our resources to learn more!