Hi everyone!

Cassie here! Working with the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition this summer-we just did a really fun project with some kids at a YMCA in Auburn, WA. We worked with kids to discuss the benefits of drinking water and less sugar sweetened beverages and we got to get messy making some of our own flavored waters and sodas. The kids took water and sparkling water and mixed and mashed real fruits and veggies in to make some delicious hydrating beverages! The winning recipe was a grape, blueberry, blackberry, mango water. The kids worked really hard to perfect the flavor and even strained some of the fruit skin out and ate it as a snack 🙂

Hi everyone! I am doing my practicum experience with the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition (COPC) (Washington branch). It is such an amazing organization. It is small, consisting of only 3 full time staff but they do some amazing work! (More on that later-but feel free to check out their site)

http://copcwa.org/

Right now I am in charge of developing and implementing an internal organizational wellness policy for the Seattle Indian Health Board. The Coalition met with them last week and they are interested in adopting a wellness policy for their staff to ensure that they are good role models for the American Indians and Alaskan Natives they serve. Once they implement the internal wellness policy they are interested in extending their wellness goals and policies to their public events as well. This is a big long-term goal for them as many of their events are food-related fundraising events. We are in the very beginning of the development process right now. So I will post more updates as we go!

Cassie