Grant to fund nutrition program at Boys & Girls Club

The Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley has received a grant from Unilever to continue its Healthy Habits after-school nutrition program in January. This program teaches young people how to understand nutrition and make better food choices.

The Healthy Habits program is part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s comprehensive health initiative called Triple Play: A Game Plan for the Mind, Body and Soul. This dynamic initiative demonstrates how eating right, keeping fit and forming positive relationships add up to a healthy lifestyle for Club members.

In each of the 10 Healthy Habits sessions per semester, members make a healthy afterschool snack, taking home not only a recipe, but valuable nutritional information and kitchen skills to encourage making eating healthy a lifelong positive choice. 
The program is open to all Boys & Girls Club members ages 6 through 18, enrolled in the after-school program at the Shelton Clubhouse.

Healthy Habits is facilitated by staff member Emily Degnan, with the help of Club volunteers. She has a degree in Culinary Arts from The Center for Culinary Arts at Lincoln Tech.

Detailed information on all programs can be found at www.BGC-LNV.org/Shelton Clubhouse.


The above is taken from a release from the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley.