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Teacher Enthusiasm And Implementation Of Harvest For Healthy Kids Curriculum Activities: Descriptive Preliminary Data, Jennifer Hallman, Betty T. Izumi
Teacher Enthusiasm And Implementation Of Harvest For Healthy Kids Curriculum Activities: Descriptive Preliminary Data, Jennifer Hallman, Betty T. Izumi
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Harvest for Healthy Kids is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project between Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) Head Start and Dr. Betty Izumi at the School of Community Health, Portland State University. Modeled after the "farm-to-school" concept, Harvest for Healthy Kids is a nutrition intervention designed to introduce children in early care and education settings to a wide variety of locally grown fruits and vegetables through their meals, snacks, and classroom activities. This year (2012-2013), research assistants conducted weekly check-in phone calls to evaluate the fidelity of the Harvest for Healthy Kids curriculum by ten MHCC Head Start teachers involved …