Promoting Healthy Lifestyle
Eat smart. Be active. Live well.
Shaping NJ is the state partnership for the Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Program focusing on environmental and policy change around obesity and chronic disease prevention.
upcoming events
DECEMBER
2
The Society for Public Health Education is holding their annual meeting and will focus on building collaborations to focus on social determinants of health, increasing knowledge about policy, systems, and environmental changes in various settings. Register by November 25, 2011. For more information, contact Iesha Suber at 973-972-5354 or isuber.njsophe@gmail.com.
DECEMBER
2
TThe NJ Health Officers Association is celebrating 100 years of service as a professional organization! Newark Mayor Cory Booker will be attending, and incoming American Public Health Association president Dr. Adewale Troutman is also anticipated as the key note speaker. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
DECEMBER
8 & 15
The NJ Department of Education, through the Coordinated School Health Project, is convening two free workshops for school wellness team leaders and their food service directors to discuss strategies for promoting healthier foods in schools. After attending, participants will be able to identify strategies food service directors implement to promote healthier foods, barriers food service directors confront when implementing these strategies, ways wellness teams can support their food service director and several other skills. To register your wellness team leader and food service director, click on the links for the workshop closest to you.
December 8, 2011 – Northern Region
PSE&G Training Center
Edison, NJ
December 15, 2011 – Southern Region
Cumberland County College
Vineland, NJ
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