AAPIUSA - How To Adopt a School Template

1. AAPI
Adopt a School
Childhood Obesity
Awareness Campaign

2. Resources You Will Need
Money…
&
…Volunteers!

3. Money
About $5 per student
mainly for promotional items
(T-shirts, Pedometers etc.)
500 students - $2,500
1000 students - $5,000

4. RESOURCES
T-shirts: $3 to $4
Pedometer: $1 or less
http://www.pedometersusa.com
Educational material – use this free
website and any other sources you
can find
http://snap.ntis.gov/Default.aspx

5. RESOURCES
Educational materials from local health
department
ChooseMyPlate magnetic stickers, placemats
PALA (Presidential Active Lifestyle Award)
https://www.presidentschallenge.org/tools-resources/forms.shtml
5-2-1-0
Hand outs
Book marks
Fruits, Seasonal plants / seeds etc.
To give to students to start a kitchen garden

6. RESOURCES
Need 3 to 5 committed AAPI physicians
If school picks a week day for the event, they should be
prepared to take part or all of the day off
Dietician(s) from the community or your workplace

7. HOW TO ORGANIZE
the School Event
Based on the Pilot program on
April 6, 2013 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

8. HOW TO…
Once you have the money and the
resources as outlined above,
Call your local health department
Set up meeting to include the Director &
his staff and 2-3 AAPI physicians

9. Explain AAPI’s Be Fit. Be Cool.
Childhood Obesity Awareness Campaign
Interactive, fun educational activities
Free t-shirts/ visors and pedometers
Walkathon
Request them to select one or more
or 10 schools that have high
prevalence of childhood obesity
Elementary or middle schools preferred
HOW TO…

10. HOW TO…
Once the school is selected,
call the school Principal
set up a meeting at the school and
include
school principal
physical education teacher
cafeteria manager and
PTA coordinator

11. HOW TO…
The school principal will choose a
date, likely after summer vacation
Aug / Sept / Oct…
Since September is National
Childhood Obesity Awareness
Month, try to do in September if you
can

12. HOW TO…
Principal may choose a weekend or a
week day
Weekend
Convenient for AAPI volunteers
Lower turnout
Week day
Entire school will attend
Few or no parents
Volunteers will need to take time off from
work

13. HOW TO…
SET DATE and TIME for event
School principal is entrusted with
Getting the word out to students and
parents
Ensure maximum participation
Making the auditorium and playground
available for the event

14. HOW TO…
Consider inviting
Governor
State Secretary for Health
Mayor
Officers of City Health and Education
Department
Major sponsors

15. HOW TO…
Scope of the event
Interactive, fun educational activities
Show and Tell
ChooseMyPlate Demo
5-2-1-0 message
Simple, brief, clear
5 min Dance / Zumba session
Free promotional items (T-shirts, Visors/ Ribbon pins/
bookmarks, pedometers), Fresh fruit snacks,
Walkathon
Be flexible
May be able to conduct only some of these… THAT’S
OK!

16. DAY OF SCHOOL
EVENT

17. DAY OF…
At Registration table, each child receives a
bag with
Yellow T-shirt (promotional item)
Educational materials
Pedometer
Bag with plant seeds for kitchen garden

18. Main Hall / Auditorium
Request speakers to limit speeches
to 2 minutes or less!
Show and Tell – very popular
ChooseMyPlate Demo
5-2-1-0 message
Simple. Brief. Clear.
5 min Dance / Zumba session
DAY OF…

19. One Mile Walkathon
Clown-Balloon man as lead
All join in one mile Walkathon in school play
ground
Check-Out table
Children receive
Fresh fruits, nutri-bars, water bottles.
Tomato plants /bean seeds to take home to start a
kitchen garden
DAY OF…

20. Talk about ChooseMyPlate and using food models
Choose My Plate

21. PALA
Presidential Active Lifestyle Award
Talk about PALA – Presidential Active Lifestyle Award.
School has to have a minimum of 500 students to sign up
for this award.
Print copies of PALA to share with parents / teachers
https://www.presidentschallenge.org/tools-resources/forms.shtml

22. Talk about 5-2-1-0
5 servings of fruits and vegetables
2 hours or less of recreational screen time
1 hour or more of physical activity
0 sugary drinks (more water and low fat milk)

23. KITCHEN GARDEN
Talk about starting a kitchen garden.
Use live models . Encourage them to plant the seeds from their registration bag
Help them choose from rainbow colored fruits & vegetables which
are loaded with nutrients, vitamins, minerals
EAT RIGHT

24. SHOW & TELL
Dietician’s SHOW and TELL
Popular with children
models of good and bad foods
a lump of FAT
test tubes of sugar to demonstrate sugar
content in sodas
Prizes for picking healthy foods

25. Make Fitness FUN!
Dance as a form of exercise
Recruit
School PE teacher
Zumba volunteer
Dance and move to fun music
Clown-Balloon man
To lead the kids on the Walkathon

26. Make Fitness FUN !
Tulsa Mayor’s wife – Ms Victoria Bartlett told the children a story
while quizzing them
“I spoke to the children at Penn Elementary School equating the
story of the Three Little Pigs to building a strong body and a healthy
life. The Big Bad Wolf represented illness, disease and scary death,
and the building options of straw, sticks and bricks represented the
choices of foods we eat. With poor eating habits, our bodies are no
stronger than a home built with straw or sticks and susceptible to
being brought down by illness and disease. By eating a complete
diet of healthy foods we are building our bodies to be as strong as
bricks and we will be able to resist the illnesses that could tear them
down. Well, the kids enjoyed the interactive story. I thought it was
better than laboring them with a string of statistics on childhood
obesity.”

27. WEAR YELLOW
Yellow for Obesity awareness
Color of T-shirts and promotional items will be
Sunshine Yellow
Yellow is as energizing as exercise which we are
promoting for childhood obesity. Exercise is good
for bones just like sunlight
Yellow represents energy, hope, optimism and joy

28. Wear Yellow Day 12/12 and Month - Sept
Proclamation by Mayors as Childhood Obesity Awareness days
Initial proclamation in Tulsa, OK of
12-12-12 as “World Childhood Obesity Awareness Day”
Subsequent proclamation in Garland, Plano and Irving , TX of
6-15-13 as Childhood Obesity Awareness day
AAPI childhood obesity awareness day will be observed on 12-12.
Wear Yellow on day of December 12 every year !
Proclamation by President Obama of September as
Childhood Obesity Awareness month
Wear Yellow in whole month of September !

29. Promotional items
Recommend Sunshine Yellow be incorporated into
promotional items
T-shirts
Visors
Yellow walking ribbon shoes
Shirt pins
Book marks
5-2-1-0 message
ChooseMy Plate
All to include Be Fit. Be Cool. and AAPI, COAC and
local Chapter logos or a combination of these – be
creative! Major sponsor’s logo as indicated .

30. Pilot program at Penn Elementary School, Tulsa, OK
April 6, 2013
Please take school/parents’ permission if sharing pictures

31. Pilot Program - Auditorium

32. Show & Tell – Good & Bad foods

33. How much sugar in a can of soda ?

34. Wear Yellow on day of Dec 12 and whole month of
September to promote Childhood Obesity Awareness

35. One mile walk with Banners

36. One Mile Walk with Banners

37. One Mile walk with kids

38. Balloonman entertaining kids wearing yellow for
childhood obesity awareness

39. 50 States USA flag
We hope to adopt schools from as many of the 50 States as possible

40. Let’s join hands to make
FITNESS FUN and COOL
Protect our Children – Our Future!