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UPCOMING MEETINGS

15 MAY - 2012      

Worksite Wellness Task Force

12:00 - 1:30 PM, TUE

Lihue Plantation Building

(Behind First Hawaiian Bank on Rice Street)

17 MAY - 2012      

Built Environment Task Force

2:00 - 3:30 PM, THUR

Pi`ikoi Building

Conference Room A

22 MAY - 2012      

Kapaa Safe Routes To School

2:30 - 4:00 PM, TUE

Pi`ikoi Building

Conference Room A

24 MAY - 2012      

Steering Committee Meeting

1:00 - 2:30 PM, FRI

Pi`ikoi Building

Conference Room A

NPAC - Get Fit Kauai

Funded by the State of Hawaii Department of Health’s Healthy Hawai`i Initiative (HHI) through a contract with the University of Hawai`i at Manoa’s Office of Public Health Studies, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Get Fit Kauai, Kauai County Nutrition & Physical Activity Coalition (NPAC) first reconvened in March, 2009.

The NPAC's, which operate on Maui and Kauai are charged with improving health in the areas of physical activity and nutrition through systems and environmental changes, based on the social-ecological model. Research has shown that it is through these types of changes that long-lasting health benefits are gained.

Get Fit Kauai has developed the following task forces to address the coalition’s priority areas.

  1. Built environment (buildings, land use, public resources, zoning regulations and transportation systems
  2. Schools and childcare facilities
  3. Worksites
  4. Nutrition and Food systems

Worksite Wellness Task Force of Get Fit Kauai has completed a pilot worksite wellness program; the Mayor’s Walking Workbus (collaboration between GFK, County of Kauai, American Cancer Society and the Department of Health) and is currently working on a worksite wellness project, “On the Road to Wellness Challenge” that promotes policy and environmental change in the worksite.

The School Task Force of Get Fit Kauai has formed and is presently working with a Countywide Safe Routes to School Team to develop a Safe Routes to Schools program. Members include elementary schools; County agencies, including Public Works, Planning, Kauai Police Department; and community organizations and individuals.

The Access to Healthy Foods Task Force of Get Fit Kauai is concentrating on creating a project to promote policy change and access to healthy foods served in pre-schools. In addition, a program is underway to help SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) beneficiaries Eat Better Today and get locally fresh produce at Farmers’ Markets. A sub-committee is also working on efforts to promote Kauai Grown, the local farmers and locally grown produce, and to strengthen relationships between farmers, retailers, restaurants, and consumers.

The Built Environment Task Force of Get Fit Kauai is focusing on developing the Complete Streets policy and ordinance since the establishment of the County Resolution in 2010. Work is also being done to educate the community on the concept and benefits of Complete Streets.

Objectives and strategies for all task forces are driven from the Department of Health PAN Plan. A copy of that plan can be found at www.healthyhawaii.com

We look forward to working with you in the future to improve the health of our community.

We are compiling a directory listing Kauai resources currently providing services in physical activity, nutrition or other community services. If appropriate, please fill out this survey.

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NEWS - newsletter

23 JUNE - 2012

Mayor-a-thon 2012

Kapa'a Beach Park
7AM Start. Register here beginning Friday June 1st.

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23 MAY - 2012

Kauai's last Walk to School Day of this school year

Kapa'a & St. Catherine's Elementary Schools
Meet at the old Otsuka's warehouse on Kawaihau at 7:00 am or join along the route at any of the intersecting streets along Kawaihau Rd.
Kilauea Elementary School
Meet at the Kilauea neighborhood center 7:15 am
Kalaheo Elementary Schools
Meet at the Kalaheo neighborhood center 7:00 am

May 2012 Walk to School Day
May 2012 Walk to School Day

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GFK 2012 Annual Meeting

On March 30, 2011, Get Fit Kauai, Kauai’s Nutrition & Physical Activity Coalition, held its annual meeting celebration at the Kauai Beach Resort in Lihue. 73 people attended and heard remarkable updates from Get Fit Kauai Task Force Chairs. Guests also enjoyed a very inspiring presentation by our guest keynote speaker, Dr. Richard J, Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles who spoke about designing healthy communities. Bev Brody, GFK coordinator recognized 4 community champions for their support towards Get Fit Kauai.

GFK 2012 Annual Meeting
GFK 2012 Annual Meeting

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2-FOR-1 PROMOTION AT FARMER'S MARKETS

Program Starts February 1st for EBT Shoppers

Starting February 1st, the Kaua‘i Independent Food Bank will launch a 2-for-1 promotion for the Eat Better Today (EBT) Farmer’s Market program, which will allow qualified recipients to buy twice as much food for each dollar spent using their EBT card.

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Designing Healthy Communities

Television Miniseries To Air May 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th 2012

Designing Healthy Communities, a four-part public television miniseries highlighting best-practice design alternatives to improve our nation's public health. Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, looks at the impact the built environment has on obesity, diabetes, heart, asthma, cancer, and depression. Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with our country's burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis. May 6: Retrofitting Suburbia. May 13: Rebuilding Places of the Heart. May 20: Social Policy in Concrete. May 27: Searching for Shangri-La

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