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Family Meals Toolkit

Kids Eat Right Family Meals RD Mini-Grantees Announced!

Congratulations to the 50 RDs selected to receive a Kids Eat Right Family Meals. Anytime. Anyplace. RD mini-grant! Each RD will receive $200 to lead two presentations from the Family Meals toolkit in their communities.

The 50 RD mini-grantees represent 24 states plus Hong Kong! Congratulations to the following Kids Eat Right Campaign Volunteers selected to receive Family Meals mini-grants:

Melissa Altman-Traub, MS, RD, CSR, LDN
Jackie Ballou, MS, RD, LDN
Katherine Bernard, MS, RD, CDN
Susan Burke March, MS, RD, LD/N, CDE
Whitney Ceas, RD, LMNT
Brandi Chase, MS, RD, LD
Jessica Coffey, RD, LMNT
Penny Crumpton, RD, LDN
Jenna Defore, RD, CD
Kelly Devine Rickert, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN
My Tu Duong, RD
Karen Ensle, EdD, RD, FADA, CFCS
Tricia Fleming, PhD, RD, CSSD, LD, CFCS
Susie Fox, MS, RD
Doris Fredericks, MEd, RD, RYT
Beverly Gor, EdD, RD, LD
Michelle Hoover, MA, RD, LDN

Amanda Jochum, RD, LMNT
Judith Kaplan, MS, RD, LD
Kate Kinne, RD, LD
Ingrid Knight, RD, LD
Susan Krahn, MS, RD, CD
Kim Kramer, RD, LDN
Erin Laurie, MS, RD, LD
Brianna Liles, MS, RD, LDN
Sandra Luthringer, RD, LDN
Andrea Maher, RD, LD
Martha Marino, MA, RD, CD
Anita Marlay, RD, LD
Sarah Maver, RD
Julianne Maxwell, MS, RD
Sandra McMillan, RD, LD
Robin Nwankwo, RD, MPH, CDE
Jill Patterson, RD, LD

Joy Purkeypile, RD, LD
Anastasia Schepers, MS, RD, CDN
Jennifer Schuett, MS, RD, LDN
Jenna Seger, RD, LD
Kayla Shelton, RD, CD
Karen Sibert, MS, RD, LDN
Tamara Sims-Dorway, RD, LD
Sarah Smith, BS, RD
Olga Suchshinskaya, MS, RD
Charmain Tan, RD, AD
Lori Tanner, MPH, RD
Brandi Thompson, RD, LDN
Joycelyn Valentine, MS, RD, CDN
Lisa Webster, RD
Suzy Weems, PhD, RD, CSSD, LD, CFCS
Karina Wittmann, RD, LRD

All Kids Eat Right Campaign Volunteers can access, download, and use this new toolkit promoting the importance of family meals. The toolkit contains two PowerPoint presentations—one geared for parents and one for teens—with leader notes, handouts, and an optional activity.

The Family Meals. Anytime. Anyplace. toolkit was developed with an educational grant from the Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE). Members of the Food and Culinary, Dietitians in Business and Communications, Pediatric Nutrition, and School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Groups participated in the development of the toolkit.

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