Public health nutrition in schools: the comprehensive health promotion approach
The School Nutrition Workgroup of the Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health supports a comprehensive health promotion approach to school nutrition. This workgroup created Nutrition Tools for Schools (NTS), a toolkit designed to engage the whole school community in creating healthy school nutrition environments. The toolkit has evolved into an online NTS Community, which will launch in September 2012, where school community members can learn, share and become empowered to work together to create healthy school nutrition environments. This presentation will review the comprehensive approach to school nutrition, how it relates to the Ontario Public Health Standards, the Ontario School Food and Beverage Policy and the role for NTS.

Presenter: Sandy Maxwell
Sandy Maxwell is a Registered Dietitian with the Niagara Region Public Health Department. Sandy works with school nurses, school boards, teachers, principals and parents in supporting healthy eating for students and their families. She is the Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health (OSNPPH) representative on the Ontario Ministry of Education Healthy Schools Working Table and is a strong advocate for healthy nutrition environments. She is also co-chair of the Elementary/Nutrition Tools for Schools (NTS) Practice Group of the OSNPPH School Nutrition Workgroup and a member of the NTS website design team that developed the new online NTS Community, launching September 2012.

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