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This Parent Tool Kit contains all of the information and materials that you will need to provide leadership and advocacy for healthy eating and physical activity at your school/community site.

Step 1: Review the materials in the Tool Kit.
Step 2: Review/discuss the materials with your principal, school officials, other
interested parents, and community leaders.
Step 3: Make a plan to use the materials at workshops, parent meetings, and/or
school or community events.
Parent Tool Kit includes the following materials:

1. A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
This 100-page book contains parent-friendly information on:

• 8 Habits of Healthy Kids™, the core of the HCHF program

• Successful Shopping Strategies and Quick Menu Planning

• Nutrition and exercise guidelines based on the Food Pyramid

• 30 fun family recipes by parents from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City

2. A Series of Four Parent Brochures with matching Parent Scripts
(English & Spanish)
• Four special brochures, based on requests from parents, were designed to help
parent advocates provide information to other parents on targeted healthy eating and physical activity topics.
• Three brochures: Team Up with the 8 Habits of Healthy Kids™ to Prevent Diabetes; Understand Food Labels; and Get Families Active After School - open up to 11 x 17 posters, each with valuable ways to adopt healthier eating and physical activity habits for the family.
• The fourth brochure in the series, The “A” List of Healthy Snacks, features the best parent snack recipes as rated and graded by kids.
• Along with information from A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity, parent advocates discuss and distribute the brochures in workshops, parent meetings, or school/community events. For each of the four brochures, a script with step-by-step presentation tips, talking points, and “fun things to do” is available to help parent advocates easily present information to other parents. *

3. CD-ROMs
• CD-ROMs with files in PDF format provide the opportunity for parent advocates to
reprint copies of A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity and the
Series of Four Brochures/Scripts at their school/community site or through a local
community printer.
• Important Note: Information in HCHF brochures and scripts is not intended as medical advice.
CD-ROM: A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
(English & Spanish)
CD-ROM: Series of Four Brochures and Matching Scripts
(English & Spanish)

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This Parent Tool Kit contains all of the information and materials that you will need to provide leadership and advocacy for healthy eating and physical activity at your school/community site. Step 1: Review the materials in the Tool Kit. Step 2: Review/discuss the materials with your principal, school officials, other interested parents, and community leaders. Step 3: Make a plan to use the materials at workshops, parent meetings, and/or school or community events. Parent Tool Kit includes the following materials: 1. A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity This 100-page book contains parent-friendly information on: • 8 Habits of Healthy Kids™, the core of the HCHF program • Successful Shopping Strategies and Quick Menu Planning • Nutrition and exercise guidelines based on the Food Pyramid • 30 fun family recipes by parents from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City 2. A Series of Four Parent Brochures with matching Parent Scripts (English & Spanish) • Four special brochures, based on requests from parents, were designed to help parent advocates provide information to other parents on targeted healthy eating and physical activity topics. • Three brochures: Team Up with the 8 Habits of Healthy Kids™ to Prevent Diabetes; Understand Food Labels; and Get Families Active After School - open up to 11 x 17 posters, each with valuable ways to adopt healthier eating and physical activity habits for the family. • The fourth brochure in the series, The “A” List of Healthy Snacks, features the best parent snack recipes as rated and graded by kids. • Along with information from A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity, parent advocates discuss and distribute the brochures in workshops, parent meetings, or school/community events. For each of the four brochures, a script with step-by-step presentation tips, talking points, and “fun things to do” is available to help parent advocates easily present information to other parents. * 3. CD-ROMs • CD-ROMs with files in PDF format provide the opportunity for parent advocates to reprint copies of A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity and the Series of Four Brochures/Scripts at their school/community site or through a local community printer. • Important Note: Information in HCHF brochures and scripts is not intended as medical advice. CD-ROM: A Parent’s Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity (English & Spanish) CD-ROM: Series of Four Brochures and Matching Scripts (English & Spanish)
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