Schools and Food:
Innovation, Opportunity
and Wellness
April 1, 2006
On April 1, 2006, 400 people participated in Schools and Food: Innovation, Opportunity and Wellness, a co-production of Baum Forum and Continuing Education and Public Programs at The Graduate Center. The day-long program included panels, workshops, a resource fair and luncheon that brought professionals from the realms of education, food service, agriculture, food gardening and public health together with parents and advocates.
This conference was developed in part as a response to the movement to improve food in schools that is accelerating across the country and in Europe. Fueled by concerns about the nutritional health of children, childhood obesity, and the intrusion of commercially branded foods and beverages into the school environment, the movement is attracting interest from policy makers, professionals and advocates from a diversity of fields and an increasingly vocal community of parents.
At the April 1 conference, presentations were made and discussions were held about the challenges, successes and proven strategies for implementing change in the school food environment from pre-k through college, from experts, practitioners and activists.
Sponsors
Center for Ecoliteracy
Congressional Hunger Center
FoodChange
Litwin Foundation
Pride of New York, NYS Dept of Agriculture & Markets
SchoolFood, NYC Department of Education
Sustainability Institute – Food For Health Program
Rome, Italy: A Model in Public Food Procurement
What can the United States Learn? ( 192 KB pdf)
Toni Liquori, EdD, MPH, Liquori and Associates, LLC
Quick Web Site Links
> Community Food Security Coalition
> Slow Food in Schools
> Cornell Farm to School Program
> Rethinking School Lunch
> WHY's Food Security Learning Center: Farm to Cafeteria
> Food Studies Institute
> Chef Ann
> Foodchange: SchoolFood Plus
> New York Coalition for Health School Lunches
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