Promoting Partnerships for Healthy Youth

Abstract

This campus-community partnership with Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) educators was an excellent way to promote health in the community. The purpose of the project was to deliver a school-based health promotion program. The aim of the program was to increase nutrition knowledge, promote a healthy body mass index and encourage a healthy body image among children in grades four through seven, residing in a small rural community in southwest Virginia. Results describe the effectiveness of the program. Pre and post test data measured nutrition knowledge, body image, body mass index and triceps skin fold thickness. All partners expressed positive outcomes from the program.