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Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative, (The): Working to Reverse the Obesity Epidemic through Academically Based Community Service

Chapter in:

Universities in Partnership: Strategies for Education, Youth Development, and Community Renewal

Author:

Francis E. Johnston

Publication Date:

2009

Publisher:

Jossey-Bass Publishers

Journal:

New Directions for Youth Development

Journal Issue:

no.122, Summer 2009, 61-79

Pages:

Abstract:

The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative draws on the resources of a premier research university and the community to address the problem of obesity in children and youth. It takes a problem-solving approach to learning, in which university and community students work jointly in a curriculum that integrates in-class and service-learning to focus on problems that afflict society – in this case, obesity.

Call Number:

350/B/JOH/2009

Sector:

CBO Sector

Sector:

HE Sector

Sector:

K-12 Sector

Library Item Type:

Print resource - serial article

Area of Service:

Health and Wellness