*DISTRICT & COMMUNITY UPDATES*
Edition XX - September 23, 2020
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Dear Friend of Wellness:
Exactly one week ago our School District opened it's doors for our students...for those who wanted to return to a Brick and Mortar status form of education. This entire process has not been easy and quite challenging for many; however, let me reassure you that everyone is doing their part to make it super special for our greatly missed asset the 'children.'
Our main goal while putting these WPTF newsletters together and dissiminating them to our stakeholders in the past 6+ months was to keep everyone abreast on what has been going on since we started this pandemic...always keeping our main focus of promoting the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child culture. One of our faithful readers and a former School Board member of our District wrote me the following email last week with these lovely words that have kept me thinking while we all are experiencing the return into our school buildings. The sentence was "Poignantly Positive Paula Presents Pulchritudinous Promotion of the Wellness Task Force!"...my thinking was of the importance of education for everyone so that we all can understand the true meaning of words...in this case for me the word was 'Pulchiritudinous.' Even though it looks and sounds like it would describe a disease or a bad attitude, pulchritudinous actually describes a person of breathtaking, heartbreaking, and beauty. I can reassure you that this past week for many children returning to school and seeing their bus drivers, teachers, custodians, cafeteria staff, resource officers, school staff and their school leaders...this entire experience for them has been truly breathtaking, heartbreaking, and beautiful.
Lifelong learning is truly a gift that we give ourselves…and it pays off big time in the long run...but we MUST NEVER forget our mentors and teachers all along the way. Coming back home to our Brick and Mortar status form of education for our children is increidibly valuable and important...let's keep pressing on and...Never Give UP!
Continue being a beacon of LIGHT for all the children
and each other...
let's grow STRONGER together!
Be healthy and safe ~ Paula
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SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE NEWS...
Click Banner Below for Resources
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Feeding our students is our mission and we want to help our families as much as possible! |
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Thank YOU ALL!
It is with great gratitude that we reach out to say how much we appreciate how quickly and efficient all of our community partners such as Feeding South Florida, Pan Florida Challenge, First UMC Jupiter-Tequesta & Jupiter First Church,
Farm to Families Partnership Initiative (The Justice Center (TJC) and Farmers), and Palm Beach County were able to work diligently with our School District team
to feed our community in need. By the end of September 10th, the total
distributed non-perishable and fresh produce boxes and/or meal bags totaled:
208,245
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IN OTHER COMMUNITY NEWS... |
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Update: STEAM Participants will receive Financial Incentives.
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Bring STEAM to
Your Program this Fall!
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Do you want to learn how to facilitate engaging activities for youth that explore the worlds of science, technology, engineering, arts and math? If so, join Prime Time’s STEAM Initiative starting this Fall.
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Click image to watch a short video on Resilience & Self-Care in the
Face of Adversity.
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Each year, the Train the Brain campaign focuses on a unique aspect of brain health. This year’s campaign theme, Resilience & Self-Care in the Face of Adversity, responds to the challenging times we find ourselves in. So far, 2020 has been a year filled with uncertainty and unexpected hardship.
Many of us are experiencing stress and anxiety like never before...check out
these valuable resources.
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Latest edition of the
Birth to 22:
United for Brighter Futures Newsletter...
a must read!
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Healthier Jupiter 2020-2021 Mini-Grant Announcement! |
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For the 5th year in a row, Healthier Jupiter will offer $2,500 Mini-Grants to create lasting and transformative change in the health and wellness of the Jupiter community.
Not-for-profits, government agencies, civic organizations, public schools, school-based groups, houses of worships, HOAs, clubs, businesses and individuals are all encouraged to submit applications.
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Applications open September 30th. Grants are due 5:00 p.m.
October 30th.
Awardees will be notified
November 13th and there will be a virtual celebration November 19th.
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Click on the attached document for additional resources. |
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Only 7 Days left to get a complete
census count...
Every day counts!
Every human counts!
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In this Facebook Live Session on Thursday, September 10, 2020, Knellee Bisram, and Paula Triana, explored this balancing act together of real-time practices to help mindfully parent ourselves and our children for greater resilience. They also shared some out-of-school time, district and community resources to support our families during these challenging times .
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Mindful Parenting in Challenging Times |
This video also provides coping resources for parents and caregivers, now that school has started distance learning. Balancing work with school in the midst of a pandemic and social unrest is challenging for all of us, especially when we have no clue when things will normalize, and what normal will even look like. |
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Click on the attached document for additional valuable resources. |
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The District's Wellness Promotion Task Force (WPTF) purpose is to create an educational forum that allows students, staff, parents, community partners, and members of the public to successfully collaborate in the promotion of healthier lives.
With the District's ultimate goal of improving student performance, the direction of the Wellness Promotion Task Force is to encourage a proactive approach to holistically address the health, wellness, and safety of all school children and staff.
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Click on the WSCC logo above to access the
Wellness Promotion Policy (2.035).
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Dr. David L. Katz's COVID - Reality Check: Basic Math...
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In this video, Dr. Katz makes the case that we have been misconstruing the pandemic denominators by an order of magnitude or more - invoking just published data and basic math. Getting these numbers right changes all of the rates - such as the fatality rate - our culture keeps churning so breathlessly.
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Paula Triana, RDN, LDN
Manager ~ Wellness Promotion
District's Wellness Promotion Task Force
School Food Service Department
3661 North Interstate Park Road, Suite #100
Riviera Beach, Florida 33404
Office: (561) 383-2026
Cell Phone: (561) 253-5583
Frances Rosier
Analyst ~ Wellness Promotion
District's Wellness Promotion Task Force
School Food Service Department
3661 North Interstate Park Road, Suite #100
Riviera Beach, Florida 33404
Office: (561) 882-1931
Cell Phone: (561) 598-3353
Hilary Greever, RDN, LDN
Nutrition Specialist - Nutrition Services
District's Wellness Promotion Task Force
School Food Service Department
3661 North Interstate Park Road, Suite #100
Riviera Beach, Florida 33404
Office: (561) 383-2041
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