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Access to Healthy Foods

Schools and childcare facilities have the ability to improve health outcomes from young people because they provide easy access to many children. In 2005, 57% of three to five year olds in Hawaii were enrolled in nursery school, preschool or kindergarten. For the 2005 - 2006 school year, 181,897 children were enrolled in Hawaii's public school system. Besides providing physical activity and nutrition education, schools are in a key position to offer an environment that can promote healthy eating and physical activity.

Get Fit Kauai's Access to Healthy Foods Task Force's objective is to increase the availability and access to local affordable, healthy foods in our community. The following strategies will be used to achieve this objective:

• Educate the community on the advantages of growing, eating and/or purchasing healthy, locally grown foods.
• Provide support to preschools in establishing policies that support consumption of locally grown foods.

What we're working on

Kauai Grown	Project Details
Presently Get Fit Kauai's Access to Healthy Foods task force is developing partnerships with the following agencies to introduce a "Kauai Grown" program into preschools on Kauai. Kauai County Farm Bureau University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Kauai Community College County Office of Economic Development P.A.T.C.H. (People Attentive to Children) Department of Health (SNAP Ed. & KDHO) Kauai Economic Opportunity Malama Kauai Ho`ola Lahui Hawaii This exciting program will be launched at the Mayor-a-thon on Saturday, June 26, 2010.
Childcare Champions Best Practices Preschool Contest	Project Details
Currently the task force is working on creating and collecting completed Childcare Champion Best Practices assessments from public and private preschools on Kauai. The task force will continue to work on this policy-changing program over the summer with hopes for implementation at the beginning of the new school season in the fall. More info coming soon.
March was National Nutrition Month	Project Details
Council member Lani Kawahara presented the Access to Healthy Foods Task Force with a "Certificate of Recognition" that reads; To recognize March 2010 as "National Nutrition Month" and commend Get Fit Kaua'i, the Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition for taking the lead in advocating for a systemic change to promote lifelong healthful nutrition and daily physical activity and policies that encourage regular physical activity and good nutrition.

Get Fit Kauai is built on the integration and involvement of community partners. Community partners and volunteers are the key to the successes of this organization.

Task Force Member Directory

Chair Laura Kawamura

University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension

Vice Chair Susan Smith

Department of Health (KDHO)

Alice Baptista

Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital

Jennifer Bloom

Kapaa High School

Jodi Drisko

Jodi Consultants

Cheryl Fujii

Kauai Community College - OCET

Tiana Kamen

Malama Kauai

Lani Kawahara

Kauai County Council

Keone Kealoha

Malama Kauai

Melissa McFerrin-Warrick

Kauai County Farm Bureau

Jan Pascua

Department of Health (KDHO)

Cathy Shanks

P.A.T.C.H.

Marla Silva

Ho`ola Lahui Hawaii

Brody, Bev

NPAC/Get Fit Kauai Island Coordinator