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Leadership Cayuga 2011 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Healthy CayugaLeadership Cayuga
Class of 2011Project Created By
Donna LambAlexis Parsons
Maria StarrTom SquiresKevin Swab
Assignment:
Over 44% of residents in Cayuga County are overweight or obese. This is a major health issue for families, and is a costly one for the county. In 2008 a Leadership Cayuga team completed a project that explored ways to encourage healthy living. Your team will that this to the next level, and create a pilot program in Cayuga County to incentivize residents to lose weight and adopt healthy lifestyle changes, with the long term goal of a larger initiative based on this model.
Concept:
To create a fun, healthy contest between the school districts in Cayuga County.
Goals:
To promote healthy eating habits and daily activity starting at a young age.
To get the whole family involved. To raise awareness of the high obesity rate among Cayuga County
residents.
Eligibility:
All Elementary and Middle Schools in the Auburn, Cato-Meridian, Port Byron, Weedsport, Moravia, Union Springs, and Southern Cayuga districts are eligible for the contest.
Official Rules:
1. The contest will run for 4 weeks. The goal of the contest is to accumulate as many points on each students’ Scorecard each week as possible through eating healthy and doing healthy activities. Scorecards will be distributed to classrooms on Monday of each week for the four weeks.
2. Each Scorecard has spaces for each day of the week (Monday through Sunday) for: eating vegetables, eating fruit, doing a healthy activity and skipping an unhealthy activity. When a student does these things, they may place a sticker on the corresponding space on the Scorecard. If the activity or meal includes a family member, the student should write the letter “F” on the sticker to record this. Points scoring information is on the Scorecard.
3. The Scorecard needs to be signed by the parent and returned on the following Monday. Schools will collect all Scorecards and calculate the average class score and overall school score. Summary sheets should be submitted to Dino Fred & Barney CPS’s LLP, who will serve as the official scorekeepers and post weekly updates on their web site.
4. At the end of the contest prizes will be awarded to the 7 winning schools in each district, the overall school winner from the combined districts and individual winners for boys and girls in each grade.
Prizes to be awarded to Schools within each district as follows:
First Prize
The School with the highest overall average Class Points will receive sports equipment, including baseball, basketball, soccer and other sports’ related items. Students will also receive t-shirts identifying them as the winning school.
Second Prize
The School with the second highest overall average Class Points will receive books with healthy activities, eating tips and fun family activities for each student.
The overall winning School will receive a full, newly installed Deluxe Playground in addition to the above listed prizes!
For each grade across all districts, the overall highest scoring boy and girl will receive a package including a gift certificate to a local sporting goods store, exercise equipment, a sports bottle and a plaque.
Prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the contest. All decisions made by the scorekeepers are considered final!
Marketing Strategy:
Meeting with each of the School Districts to discuss the program would be the first step in our process. Once the schools decide to implement the Program we would then like the public to be aware in order to get their involvement.
The School Districts would be responsible to get the students to join and get the paperwork to them and to their families. This would be thru the School web-sites, take- home letters and the School Bulletins along with flyers throughout the Community. We would like to utilize the mass media to get the word out about the Program once the schools decide to proceed with it. The local newspaper, The Citizen, would have the kick-off article to let the public be aware that this was going on and what the Program entails.
Weekly updates would be posted on School web-sites, the local papers and possibly the local news program. The Healthy Cayuga Facebook page would also post updates on the school point system.
Once the program has ended after the four weeks another article in The Citizen would post winners and have a photo to include the District winners. Also another blurb on the local News regarding the outcome would serve as a follow-up. Healthy Cayuga Facebook page would also have listings of the final points and District winners along with the School web-sites.
Materials:
The materials will be produced by the County Health Department and passed to students and parents as shown in the following chart:
Scorecards:
All participants will receive a scorecard and sheet of stickers at the beginning of each week of the contest.
Putting the stickers in the boxes allows the participants as well as the official counters keep track of the scoring.
Parent signatures are required to make sure they are aware of the contest and that the participants are supervised appropriately.
School Administrator Contact List:
Auburn Schools
J.D. Pabis, Superintendent of Schools
Harriet Tubman Administration Building
78 Thornton Ave
Auburn, NY 13021-4698
Phone: (315) 255-8835
Fax: (315) 255-8855
Casey Park Elementary School
101 Pulaski St
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8760
Principal: Mrs. Phyllis Rice
Genesee Elementary School
244 Genesee St
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8640
Principal: Mr. Ronald Gorney
Herman Ave. Elementary School
North Herman Ave
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8680
Principal: Mrs. Cynthia Lattimore
Owasco Elementary School
66 Letchworth St
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8720
Principal: Mrs. Miguelina Cuevas-Post
William H. Seward Elementary School
52 Metcalf Dr
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8600
Principal: Ms. JoAnn Wixson
East Middle School
191 Franklin St
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8480
Principal: Mr. David Oliver
West Middle School
217 West Genesee St
Auburn, NY 13021
Phone: (315) 255-8540
Principal: Mrs. Deb Carey
Cato-Meridian Central Schools
2851 NY South Route 370
Cato, NY 13033
Mr. Noel Patterson, Superintendent of Schools
Phone: (315) 626-3439
Fax: (315) 626-2888
Mr. Rob Wren
Elementary School Principal
Phone: (315) 626-3320
Fax: (315) 626-2293
Mr. Sean Gleason
Middle School Principal
Phone: (315) 626-3319
Fax: (315) 626-2888
Moravia Central Schools
Mrs. Michelle Brantner, Superintendent of Schools
68 South Main St
Moravia, NY 13118
Phone: (315) 497-2670
Fax: (315) 497-2260
Millard Fillmore Elementary
24 South Main St
Moravia, NY 13118
Phone: (315) 497-2670
Fax: (315) 497-3961
Principal: Mr. Howard Seamans
Moravia Middle School
68 South Main St
Moravia, NY 13118
Phone: (315) 497-2670
Fax: (315) 497-2260
Principal: Mr. Bruce MacBain
Port Byron Schools
Mr. Neil O’Brien, Superintendent of Schools
30 Maple Ave
Port Byron, NY 13140
Phone: (315) 776-5728
Fax: (315) 776-4050
AA Gates Elementary School
30 Maple Ave
Port Byron, NY 13140
Phone: (315) 776-5728 ext. 1049
Principal: Mr. Mitchell Toleson
Dana West Jr-Sr High School
30 Maple Ave
Port Byron, NY 13140
Phone: (315) 776-5728 ext. 1129
Principal: Mr. Shawn Bissetta
Southern Cayuga Schools
Ms. Mary Kay Worth, Superintendent of Schools
2384 Route 34B
Aurora, NY 13026
Phone: (315) 364-7211
Emily Howland Elementary
2892 Route 34B
Aurora, NY 13026
Phone: (315) 364-7621
Principal: Mrs. Mary Lou Cronin
Southern Cayuga Middle School
2384 Route 34B
Aurora, NY 13026
Phone: (315) 364-7098
Principal: Mrs. Patricia Reilley
Union Springs Schools
Mrs. Linda Rice, Superintendent of Schools
239 Cayuga St
Union Springs, NY 13160
Phone: (315) 889-4101
AJ Smith Elementary
26 Homer St
Union Springs, NY 13160
Phone: (315) 889-7102
Principal: Mrs. Karen Burcroff
Cayuga Elementary
255 Wheat St
Cayuga, NY 13034
Phone: (315) 889-4170
Principal: Ms. Sheila LaDouce
Union Springs Middle School
239 Cayuga St
Union Springs, NY 13160
Phone: (315) 889-4112
Principal: Mr. Andy Eldridge
Weedsport Schools
Mr. Shaun O’Connor, Superintendent of Schools
2821 East Brutus St
Weedsport, NY 13166
Phone: (315) 834-6637
Weedsport Elementary School
8954 Jackson St
Weedsport, NY 13166
Phone: (315) 834-6685
Principal: Mr. Timothy Cowin
Weedsport Junior-Senior High School
2821 East Brutus St
Weedsport, NY 13166
Phone: (315) 834-6652
Principal: Ms. Carolyn Widrick (Middle School)
Healthy Resources:
http://www.foodinsight.org/
http://www.mypyramid.gov/
http://www.kidnetic.com/
http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/DietaryGuidelines/2010/PolicyDoc/SelectedMessages.pdf
http://www.eatright.org/default.aspx
http://www.thewalkingsite.com/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-recipes/RecipeIndex
http://www.acefitness.org/healthyrecipes/default.aspx
http://kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/healthy_eating/recipes.html
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
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