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Iowa Action for Healthy Kids Get Involved There are many opportunities to get involved with Action for Healthy Kids in Iowa--from becoming a team member, to attending Action for Healthy Kids’ events, to making a financial contribution--you can help create a safer environment for our kids! If you feel compelled to lend your voice to one of most important issues of our time, and would like to take that first step towards creating a healthier environment for our kids, join the Action for Healthy Kids community by taking the Every Kid Healthy Pledge on the left-hand side of the page. Wellness Challenges and Solutions More than 300 middle school students and teachers from 74 schools across the state participated in regional Super Power Summits during October, 2010, where they learned how to bring out the super powers inside them by choosing healthy foods and being physically activity. They also were empowered to go back to their own schools with new ideas to help make their schools healthier. Wellness Challenges and Solutions, a handout listing common school wellness challenges along with suggested solutions compiled from middle school students who attended the Super Power Summits. The handout can be shared with students, administrators, school wellness committees and others in a school or community to help implement some of the student suggested solutions to further school wellness efforts. |
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