Dietitian of The Desert

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Dietitian of the Desert invites you to SOS 2008, Smart or Strong: Child Nutrition Does It All! Children and the professionals that they work with will be the first to be celebrated at this annually planned event. A series of three programs will explore the child's potential and the power harnessed when a program and their community embrace the nutrition resources available. This series will include:

child wellness and nutrition programs available through federal, state and local agencies.
stradegies for dealing with obesity, hunger, and other diet related problems which affect our children's ability to learn and meet their physical potential.
Techniques that when used community-wide will unite and strengthen a nutrition safety net impacting families, schools and the health care system.

Join your professional peers desert-wide. Those from school districts, government agencies and non-profit organizations - all dedicated to improving the home and school environment of children at nutritional risk. Knowing that the incidence of obesity with children today is only surpassed by the incidence of hunger, attitudes about food and exercise make a difference and so can you!
With building a nutrition coalition our final goal, we'll to give the first 20 registrants to SOS 2005 (series) free admission to Recipe for Success. A $125.00 value, this program and it's manual could become a uniting force any school's wellness team.
Though not a part of our series, "Recipes for Success" is being presented for the first time in the High Desert by CANFIT - the Berkeley-based California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Program on November 18th, 2005. While teaching knowledge is the workshop's use of the CANFIT manual as the agenda promotes which is given to each participant, how CANFIT addresses issues influenced by ethnicity and poverty is what makes this four-hour workshop different than any other you might attend. Their schedule coincides with the last S.O.S. series being presented on November 18, 2005 and is also going to be held at the Institute of Mental Physics.
Choose either the morning and enjoy an afternoon exploring the desert or finish up with business in the morning and come in for with an afternoon workshop that will invigorate and inspire. Each program in the series will be four hours in length. You'll choose between a morning session and early evening session. All programs will be on the campus of the Institute of Mental Physics in Joshua Tree, California. Follow the S.O.S. signs. Be sure to allow time to check out the beautiful campus, walk the Labyrinth, or explore the beauty of Joshua Tree National Park. All only minutes away.
See the Community Programs page for an overview of the exciting child nutrition series as well as information on future offerings from Dietitian of the Desert. We look forward to seeing you and welcome you to the evolving possibilities of a local nutrition coalition.
Mary Ann Kelly, R.D.