Nutrition Advocate Service Patch Program® from Youth Squad®

• How can you eat healthier? Helpful Link: President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
• How does poor nutrition effect health? Consequences of Poor Nutrition
• Why are so many Americans overweight? Helpful Link: Obesity in America
• How does being overweight effect your health? Helpful Link: The Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity
• What is the nutritional value of a school meal supposed to be? Helpful Link: School Nutrition Standards
• Do kids each school lunches? Helpful Link: Why Are Children Throwing Away School Lunches?

• Why is childhood obesity a special problem? Helpful Link: Health Problems and Childhood Obesity
• Why are some states more obese than others? Helpful Link: America’s Most Obese States Tend to Have One Thing in Common
• What is Food Insecurity? Helpful Link: What is Food Insecurity?
  

• Advocate for better cooking and eating habits in your family by helping out with the shopping and cooking. Helpful Links: 10 Secrets to Cooking Healthier, 19 Clever Ways to Eat Healthy on a Tight Budget
• Advocate for healthier food choices at school. Helpful Link: Salad Bars to Schools
• Publish a healthy meal cookbook. Ask people in the community to submit recipes for their favorite healthy meals.
• Make healthy snacks to share with your friends.
• Set up a nutrition awareness booth and hand out flyers.
• Get restaurants in your community to sign up for the Feedie app.

• Get local restaurants to provide nutritional information on their menus or website.
• Advocate for healthy meal options from local restaurants.
• Post a daily healthy meal recipe on your community Facebook page.
• Advocate to have a farmer’s market in your town.

• Your Family
• Neighbors
• Politicians — Helpful link: How to Contact Your Elected Officials

• Classmates
• Your Fellow Worshipers
• Other Groups or Organizations

• Talk to them. Consider wearing a button as a conversation starter.
• Hand out flyers. Consider setting up a booth to collect donations if allowed.
• Hang tags on doors and mail boxes.

• Make posters.
• Reach out with social media such as Facebook.
• Send a press release to your local newspaper or school newspaper. Helpful link: How to write a press release.

• Personally thank individuals and businesses who helped. A hand written letter is always nice. Helpful Link: How to write a thank you letter.
• Thank the community as a whole with posters.
• Create a follow up press release and include the names of individuals and businesses who participated.

• Thank the community as a whole on social media.
• Give certificates of appreciation.

• Do you think your advocacy project helped to promote better nutrition?
• Will you continue?

• What else can you do to further promote good nutrition in your community?

Congratulations! You have earned the Nutrition Advocate patch. It can be purchased at our partner site MakingFriends®.com.

You can become an Outreach Welfare Advocate by earning all 5 outreach advocate level patches.

• Nutrition Advocate Patch
• Shelter Advocate Patch
• Wellness Advocate Patch
• Wellbeing Advocate Patch
• Education Advocate Patch

Did completing this Patch Program® give you some ideas for becoming a Nutrition Delegate?

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