The Dairy Council of California is asking for nominations for a 2023 nutrition champion for the annual Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award. The Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award celebrates California leaders and change-makers who educate, inspire, and empower children, families, and communities to develop lifelong healthy eating habits.
Now in its fourth year, the award program recognizes and celebrates individuals, youth leaders, and organizations that improve nutrition education and access to nutritious foods to make a positive difference in the health of their communities and beyond.
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Tammy Anderson-Wise, Dairy Council of California CEO, said, “We are honored to give a spotlight and bring awareness to leaders in California that are doing such important work on behalf of nutrition and childhood health. As we enter into the fourth year of the Let’s Eat Healthy award program, it is important to celebrate champions in California that value the unique nutritional and health needs of children to prioritize optimal growth, development, academic success, and lifelong health.”
Let’s Eat Healthy is an initiative to bring together diverse individuals and organizations guided by the belief that all children and families deserve equitable access to healthy, culturally diverse foods, and nutrition education that centers on people’s unique lived experiences. By supporting access to high-quality, nutritious foods, we strive to ensure all children are supported for optimal growth, development, and health throughout life. Evidence-based nutrition education helps children and families make healthy eating decisions, empowering them to build lifelong healthy eating habits.
Past winners of the Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award have included school foodservice professionals, teachers, health and wellness coordinators, nutrition advocates, and community-based organizations. This year, the nomination category is expanding to include youth leaders.
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Let’s Eat Healthy Leadership Award Criteria
- Communicating credible nutrition messaging and applying it within a school, district and/or community setting (e.g., teaching evidence-based nutrition education, providing professional development).
- Supporting access to nutritious foods such as milk and dairy foods, vegetables, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins within schools and communities.
- Championing the needs of a community by advocating for food programs and policies that support the health of both people and the planet.
- Advocating and advancing nutrition education to support health in a school and/or community.
Nominations for a Let’s Eat Healthy champion are available online. Submissions are due by December 9 , 2022. All submissions including self, peer, team, and organization nominations will be accepted and eligible for consideration.
