EatMoveGrow
- Project Title: EatMoveGrow
- Grant Period: 2016-2019
- Program Representative Interviewed: Donna Newton, Executive Director
- Location: Oakdale, Louisiana
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Program Overview: EatMoveGrow (EMG) is funded by a HRSA Delta States Rural Development
Network Grant. This program uses the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model to teach
students healthy habits and to build stronger health environments at low-resource elementary schools in
rural Louisiana. The EMG team serves 40 elementary schools and 20 daycares/Head Start programs in 21
parishes. Their health educators use a wide and deep approach to provide a spectrum of services unique to
each school including health education, nutrition support, activity-boosting enhancements, and grant writing
technical assistance.
While serving more than 15,000 children from childcare centers through third grade, EMG demonstrated measurable improvements in the implementation of policy change, expanding student knowledge, and increasing student activity during the school day.