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With the month of March being National Nutritional Month, our focus is to encourage families and children within our USVI community to find nutritious ways towards a healthier lifestyle. Under the annual campaign spearheaded by the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics, this year’s theme is “Personalize Your Plate”; creating nutritious meals to meet individuals’ cultural and personal food preferences leading towards a healthier lifestyle. Healthier lifestyle reduces health problems, provides coping skills for life stressors, and can improve persons overall quality of life. Children and parents will be able to receive insight on this topic from a member of the WIC Program (Women & Infant Children Program) while enhancing their culinary skills with a person in their community they admire and can see in themselves. The live cooking demonstration provided by the engaging chef of the evening will beautifully tie together that “there is no one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition and health” but there are wonderful and fun ways to support a healthy lifestyle. The Project LAUNCH team hopes this will allow for an opportunity for children to learn new skills, engage with their peers and family members in spite of the virtual circumstances. We want to encourage children and families to be able to connect over meals, and look at this event being an opportunity to highlight moments for family strengthening and cooking up some beautiful memories, “VI Style.” 

With the month of March being National Nutritional Month, our focus is to encourage families and children within our USVI community to find nutritious ways towards a healthier lifestyle. Under the annual campaign spearheaded by the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics, this year’s theme is “Personalize Your Plate”; creating nutritious meals to meet individuals’ cultural and personal food preferences leading towards a healthier lifestyle. Healthier lifestyle reduces health problems, provides coping skills for life stressors, and can improve persons overall quality of life. Children and parents will be able to receive insight on this topic from a member of the WIC Program (Women & Infant Children Program) while enhancing their culinary skills with a person in their community they admire and can see in themselves. The live cooking demonstration provided by the engaging chef of the evening will beautifully tie together that “there is no one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition and health” but there are wonderful and fun ways to support a healthy lifestyle. The Project LAUNCH team hopes this will allow for an opportunity for children to learn new skills, engage with their peers and family members in spite of the virtual circumstances. We want to encourage children and families to be able to connect over meals, and look at this event being an opportunity to highlight moments for family strengthening and cooking up some beautiful memories, “VI Style.”