This webinar will discuss strategies to improve the school food environment, with a focus on the School Breakfast Program. Utah school nutrition professionals will discuss the policy and program strategies currently being incorporated in their state and nationally including pilot programs of alternative breakfast models and working with state legislature to further support school breakfast from a policy perspective.

Learning objectives:

Describe three ways that nutrition affects health and learning.
Describe three differences between traditional school breakfast and breakfast after the bell/alternative school breakfast models.
Describe two policy approaches being utilized in Utah to increase school breakfast participation.

Presenters:

Lori Andersen Spruance, PhD, CHES; Assistant Professor; Brigham Young University Department of Public Health

Amanda Knill, BS; Child Nutrition Specialist at the Utah State Board of Education

Jeffrey Van Hulten, JD; Policy Advisor at the Utah State Board of Education

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