Reporting: Monessa Guilfoil
The Hamilton County Department of Education in collaboration with Coordinated School Health offers Chef Night demonstrations and taste-testings for children and their families from four area schools:
Chef Night is an event where Local chefs will come to selected schools to demonstrate how to prepare healthy food.
This event will take place in the school cafeteria with Local Chef’s preparing healthy food. Multiple booths will be set-up with Healthy Education information and, a Dietitian.
Fun games, face painting, and door prizes give away will be available.
The Benwood Foundation seeks to stimulate creative and innovative efforts to build and strengthen the Chattanooga community.
Coordinated School Health is providing the educational component for the Chef Nights collaboration:
“The mission of Coordinated School Health is to improve students’ health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and schools.”
The CDC’s Coordinated School Health (CSH) model is a systematic approach that ensures that a school community effectively links health with educational success. Although these components are listed separately, it is their composite that allows CSH to have significant impact. CSH is implemented in a way that fits the unique needs and resources of each school community. The eight components of CSH are:
- Health Education
- Health Services
- Counseling, Psychological and Social Services
- Physical Education
- Nutrition Services
- Student, Family/Community Involvement
- Healthy School Environment
- Health Promotion for Staff
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