Free Growing Healthy Texas Training Events

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It’s time for the second annual series of workshops dedicated to supporting and fostering healthy lifestyles and positive health outcomes through nutrition and physical activity.

Growing Healthy Texas offers FREE 2-day training events in six different regions of Texas over the summer.  Whether you are an educator, health professional, government leader or community organizer, if you are interested in supporting healthy lifestyles then you belong at these training events.

Following is a list of courses offered under the three education tracks: education and innovation; success and sustainability; and communities in collaboration.

Education and Innovation: Identifying Healthy Choices

  • It’s More Than an App: Technology Innovations that Educate and Promote Healthy Living
  • Shaping Healthy Choices
  • Obesity and Distress: The “Second Brain” Connection
  • Taking a Unique Approach to Physical Fitness

Success and Sustainability: Local Efforts in Health Promotion

  • Collaborating with Hospitals to Improve Breastfeeding Rates
  • Healthy Living Matters: Connecting Policy to Success
  • How To Strengthen Local School Health Advisory Committees
  • Engaging Communities with Knives, Forks and Shovels
  • Sustaining a Garden with Students: Building a College or School Structure
  • Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Promoting Health
  • Community Success Stories Working with Restaurants, Grocery Stores and Others To Promote Health

Communities in Collaboration: Building Effective Coalitions

  • Maximizing Collaboration: Working In Partnership
  • How to Identify and Maximize Funding
  • Become an Effective Champion for Community Health
  • Collaborating with Faith-Based Organizations

Click here to register or learn more about these free workshops.

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