Sharing Service Stories » Livermore High School http://sharingservicestories.org Let your story inspire others Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Livermore High School: Jefferson Awards’ Student Leaders Making a Difference in San Francisco Bay Area http://sharingservicestories.org/2009/07/livermore-high-school/ http://sharingservicestories.org/2009/07/livermore-high-school/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:44:18 +0000 Inglis Leslie http://sharingservicestories.org/?p=539 Livermore High SchoolThe student leaders of Livermore High School (Audrieana Bammer, Danielle Harvey, Kathryn
Rambo and Brittani Thurlow) were chosen to represent the San Francisco YSI Bay Area Region based on the school’s success in rolling out a new healthy foods program and its engagement of faculty support. Concerned about high rates of childhood obesity and diabetes, the Livermore High School students focused on creating a program to improve health and nutrition at their school, with the goal of expanding the program to neighboring schools across the Bay Area. In partnership with nutritionists and the Agricultural Department, Livermore now provides two to three vegetable and fruit lunch selections per day, and it has instituted various measures to ensure that they meet healthy food guidelines set forth by the American Heart Association.

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