Thursday event: training to promote healthy lifestyle choices

 

		County of Los Angeles DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES   425 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, California  90020 (213) 351-5602
Board of Supervisors GLORIA MOLINA First District MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS Second District ZEV YAROSLAVSKY Third District DON KNABE Fourth District MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH Fifth District   PATRICIA S. PLOEHN, LCSW Director

 

 

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 December 9, 2009

 

 

CONTACT:            Neil Zanville

                        DCFS Office of Public Affairs:        (213) 351-5779

                        Day of Event:  Michael Scoggins:  (626) 818-6945

 

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

Pasadena families to learn healthy life style choices on December 10^th.   

Training to promote age-appropriate nutrition and physical activity information for families

 

WHAT:              On Thursday, December 10^th from 10 a.m. to noon, the Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Kinship Division and the City of Pasadena Public Health Department will sponsor a Community Wellness and Healthy Lifestyles special program for Twenty-five relative caregivers and their families who reside in or near Pasadena.  A Physical Activity and Nutrition Coordinator from the Pasadena Public Health Department will offer a number of interactive activities and demonstrations on healthy food choices including:  food tasting, understanding how to read nutritional labels, and raising awareness on the new food pyramid and nutritional standards released by the government.  In exchange for caregivers' feedback to help develop further trainings, children and caregivers will be provided with gifts.

 

                          This is the first in a series of trainings scheduled monthly throughout the county through May.  These seminars were developed in response to the passage of a new Board of Supervisor's Child Wellness Policy for the County to promote information on age appropriate nutrition and physical information to parents and caregivers.

 

WHO:              Twenty Five Pasadena families, Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families, The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Kinship Division, a Physical Activity and Nutrition Coordinator from the City of Pasadena Public Health Department

 

WHEN:            Thursday, December 10, 2009

                        10 a.m. - 12 noon

 

WHERE:         St. Andrew Catholic Church-St. Vincent Hall, 140 Chestnut St., Pasadena, CA 91103