Volume 2
PROGRAM REPORT April 2015
Educating and engaging
high school, middle school,
and elementary school aged
students in better nutrition
Developed and delivered by
MCCH’s Outreach Mission is to empower the community with the knowledge and means to manage daily choices involving their
health through healthy lifestyle changes. Though kids teaching kidsSM is managed by MCCH its sustainability relies heavily on its
advisory committee.
kids teaching kidsSM Advisory Committee:
Ryan Eason
Rochelle Sangabriel, RD LD
Carrie Zamora
Sharon Van Meter
Chere Vinson
Program Director
Medical City
Children’s Hospital
Registered Dietician
Medical City
Children’s Hospital
Allen ISD Council of
PTA’s Healthy Lifestyles
President
SVM Productions, LLC
Lewisville ISD Council of PTAs
Healthy Lifestyle Chair
Kevin Payne
Wendi Hatley
Michele Carey-Davé
Michel Coleman
Jill Elliott, RD LD
Executive Director,
Greater Dallas Restaurant
Association
PE Coordinator
Mesquite ISD
VP Programs Plano ISD
Council of PTA’s
Healthy Lifestyles Chair at
Evans Elementary in
Allen, Texas
Registered Dietician,
Medical City
Children’s Hospital
Amy Hillin, RN, MSN, NCSN
Allison Gutschlag
Leigh Farley
Shelia Gardner
Coordinator of Health Services
Achieve Academy
Wylie ISD
Frisco ISD Council of PTA’s
Healthy Lifestyles
Coordinator of Career and
Technical Education
Mesquite ISD
Director of Coordinated
School Health
Frisco ISD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Program Overview .............................................................................................. 2
What is kids teaching kidsSM? ............................................................................ 3
2014 Recap......................................................................................................... 4
Program Partners................................................................................................ 5
kids teaching kidsSM Program Publications ......................................................... 6
kids teaching kidsSM in North Texas .................................................................... 7
Educating Future Chefs ...................................................................................... 8
The kids teaching kidsSM 21-Day Challenge ....................................................... 9
The kids teaching kidsSM 21-Day Challenge Results ........................................ 10
The kids teaching kidsSM 21-Day Challenge Competition ................................ 11
Kids Fit Menu ................................................................................................... 12
Kids Fit Menu Challenge .................................................................................. 16
21 Day Challenge @ Work ...............................................................................
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Looking Forward ...............................................................................................
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About Medical City Children’s Hospital ........................................................... 20
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OVERVIEW
Mission Statement
“Our mission is to help kids develop life-long healthy eating habits. We partner with Texas
ProStart culinary students to create kid-friendly, fun to make, fun to eat recipes featuring fruits
and vegetables”.
Medical City Children’s Hospital created kids teaching kidsSM in May 2010. For the past five years, the
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WHAT IS kids teaching kids SM?
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their eating habits for the better. With childhood obesity
more than tripling in the last 30 years, Medical City
Children’s Hospital recognized the need to educate
children and their parents about healthy eating habits,
beginning with snacking.
Medical City Children’s Hospital and the Greater Dallas
Restaurant Association (GDRA) have partnered with
high schools participating in Texas ProStart, a culinary
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program, to bring kids teaching kids to fruition.
Culinary students work with a Medical City Children’s
Hospital registered dietitian to learn some nutrition
basics, how to read food labels and calculate nutrition
facts for recipes. The students take that knowledge and
create fun-to-make, fun-to-eat snack recipes featuring fruits and vegetables that elementary school age students can
prepare themselves.
With the help of graphic design students, these written recipes are combined with pictures taken by the school’s
photography students and designed into a recipe book. The design file then goes to print and the recipe books are
distributed to elementary school students in the same district.
The program doesn’t stop there! The school districts are getting behind the cause and encouraging their students
to participate in the 21-Day Challenge, an after-school snacking challenge designed to help students create new,
healthier snacking habits.
The positive impact that the high school students are having on elementary school age students is tangible. Through
our data, we see kids are changing their ways of eating, and chefs are following suit in their ways of preparing. The
culinary students’ snack creations featuring fruits and vegetables are now appearing on restaurant menus. The Kids
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Fit Menu program, an extension of kids teaching kids , is helping restaurants provide healthier options for their
family customers.
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2014 RECAP
Kids are eating more fruits
and vegetables!
kids teaching kidsSM Publications
-6 New Snack Books created
Educating Future Chefs
-332 future chefs learned to read a nutrition facts panel and calculate nutrition facts for recipes
Culinary Students in the Community
-ProStart culinary students taught healthy snack making to kids in 44 elementary schools
21-Day Challenge with Frisco ISD
-4500 students signed up
-900 students completed the challenge and survey
-Before the challenge 83.2% said they ate healthy snacks
Of those 83.2%, 88% said they were eating more fruits and veggies after the challenge
And 74.2% said they tried a new fruit or veggie
-Before the challenge, 16.8% said they did not eat healthy snacks
Of those 16.8%, 83.6% said they were eating more fruits and veggies after the challenge
And 67.1% said they tried a new fruit or veggie
Kids Fit Menu
-14,167 orders placed from Kids Fit Menus
-6 Restaurant Partners
-19 locations
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PROGRAM PARTNERS
Medical City Children’s Hospital has
partnered with several professional
organizations to expand educational
value via career opportunities within
the kids teaching kidsSM program.
Among these is the Texas
Restaurant Association and its
chapters, including the Greater
Dallas Restaurant Association,
who understand that workforce
development is critical to the future of
the restaurant industry
Their philanthropic foundation, the
Texas Restaurant Association
Education Foundation works to
provide educational opportunities
for restaurant careers in Texas. The
flagship program is Texas ProStart,
a two-year industry based high school
culinary and restaurant management
curriculum. Currently Texas ProStart
is in more than 200 high schools,
reaching 20,000+ students annually.
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kids teaching kids SM PUBLICATIONS
Since 2010 Medical City Children’s Hospital has been working with culinary students from all over north Texas. All
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content in the kids teaching kids books – including the recipes, photography and graphic design is created by high
school students. Each book can be downloaded for free at kids-teaching-kids.com. The two showcased below are
from Frisco and Allen ISD.
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21 Day
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Multi-year participant
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Single-year participant
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Desoto
Dallas
To learn more, visit the kids teaching kids website
at www.kids-teaching-kids.com
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EDUCATING FUTURE CHEFS
A registered dietitian from Medical City Children’s Hospital visits Texas ProStart culinary students in their classrooms.
The students get a hands-on learning experience as they are educated on understanding food labels, reading nutrition
facts panels and calculating nutrition facts for recipes.
We measure their learning by administering a 3-question survey prior to the learning experience. This same survey is
repeated, approximately 3 weeks later, on the day the students present and demonstrate their snack recipes. Below
is the data for 2014-2015 school year.
2014-2015
School Year
The data shows that students are retaining the knowledge. These future chefs are gaining both knowledge and skills
to take with them as they continue their education and ultimately, enter the culinary industry.
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THE 21-DAY CHALLENGE
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Each ISD that has participated in the kids teaching kids program with
Medical City Children’s Hospital, has given positive feedback on their
experience. But, how do we know that we are helping kids make better
choices during snack time? In late spring 2013, the kids teaching
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kids advisory committee turned its focus towards answering this
question. The result was the 21-Day Challenge.
Every year, elementary schools and some middle schools in each ISD
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that has produced a new kids teaching kids cookbook are invited to
participate. The challenge is to prepare and eat a healthy snack every
day, for 21 straight days. The snack can be a recipe from any kids
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teaching kids snack book, the Healthy Snack Finder on our website or
the student’s own creation but must contain fruit and/or vegetables.
With the backing of Superintendents and the collaboration with PTAs
and PE teachers, the following Dallas area ISD’s participated in
The 21-Day Challenge during the 2014-2015 school year.
FRISCO ISD
ALLEN ISD
ROCKWALL ISD
LEWISVILLE ISD
We are educating
more kids each year
by engaging them in
the 21-Day Challenge
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THE 21-DAY CHALLENGE RESULTS
During registration for The 21-Day Challenge, we asked the kids about their typical snack; was it mainly cookies,
sodas, chips, or fruits/veggies. Three weeks after the challenge ended, we asked the same questions and this what
we found:
After the ChallengeCookie consumption was reduced by 16.0%
Soda reduced 4.8%
Chips reduced 13.0%
Fruits/Veggies Ç 3.2%
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Statistical analysis
performed by:
Joseph E. Zerwekh, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Research
Morley Herbert, Ph.D.
Biostatistician, Clinical Research
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THE 21-DAY CHALLENGE COMPETITION
Adding a competition element to the challenge
boosted the completion rate by 125%.
The success of the 21-Day Challenge is catching on. In January
of 2015, in partnership with Medical City Children’s Hospital and
their respective Council of PTAs, two school districts cooked up
a friendly competition. The quest was to see which district could
have the greatest percentage of students participating in and
completing the challenge.
Frisco ISD Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jeremy Lyon and
Allen ISD Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Lance Hindt, personally
participated and led their districts in The 21-Day Challenge.
An unprecedented 19,069 students signed up for the challenge
and 8,520 students completed the challenge and the survey.
Our standard 21-Day Challenge with school districts resulted in
Troy Villarreal, CEO Medical City Dallas
Hospital, Keith Zimmerman, CEO Medical
City Children’s Hospital, Congressman Sam
Johnson, Dr. Jeremy Lyon, Frisco ISD
Superintendent of Schools
a completion rate of approximately 20%. Adding a competition
element boosted the completion rate by 125%.
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KIDS FIT MENU
In the fall of 2013, in partnership
with the Greater Dallas Restaurant
Association (GDRA), the Kids Fit Menu
program was born!
Medical City Children’s Hospital
(MCCH) registered dietitians
worked with local restauranteurs to
incorporate snack recipes from the
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kids teaching kids program into a
new kind of menu just for kids, the
Kids Fit Menu.
The Greater Dallas Restaurant Association
has embraced this program and
encourages their members to participate.
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Each Kids Fit meal features 1 or more
servings of fruit and/or vegetables
and is nutritionally balanced to mirror the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, ages 2
and up. Each restaurant hosts a private
tasting event prior to releasing their Kids
Fit Menu. Medical City Children’s Hospital
sends an announcement to all members
of our City Kitty Club and their parents
to participate. The first to respond get a
reserved seat at the event. Up to 20 kids
ages 4-12 taste and rate each new item
that is in the running for the Kids Fit Menu.
Their feedback helps determine which items
make it to the final menu.
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Each Texas ProStart student chef is
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KIDS FIT MENU
10 restaurant partners/49 locations
Growth
More restaurant partners
are joining the cause!
In 2014 the Kids Fit Menu program
grew from 1 restaurant with 6
locations to 8 restaurants with 27
locations. Now, in 2015 we have
10 restaurant partners with 49
locations that offer a Kids Fit Menu!
Flower Mound Location Only
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Rockwall Location Only
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Kids Fit Menu Sales
20580
Q1 2015
16871
Q4 2014
It is impressive to see the
12556
Q3 2014
positive impact that restaurants
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Q2 2014
are having on the health of
their local communities through
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Q1 2014
Q4 2013
74,590 items
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partnerships, not mandates!
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The proof is in the numbers.
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Rounding up new partners in 2015...
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KIDS FIT MENU CHALLENGE
5 restaurant concepts
5 Texas ProStart schools
Rockwall HS
Kicking it up a Notch!
We have been so impressed with the talent and creative minds of Texas
ProStart culinary students that we wanted to kick it up a notch. In the fall
of 2014, Texas ProStart students, in partnership with MCCH, the GDRA, and
local area restaurants, participated in The Kids Fit Menu Challenge.
Irving HS
We invited the top culinary students to engage with our local restaurant
partners in creating Kids Fit Meals for each specific restaurant concept.
The students wrote
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calculated nutritionn facts
and prepared theirr meal
creations in “real-time”
time” for
each restaurant’s panel of
judges.
Jack E. Singley
Academy Irving
We matched up 5 schools
with 5 restaurant
concepts. As a
result, 16 new
menu items have
been added to
these restaurants’
Plano East
Senior High
Kids Fit Menus.
The Colony HS
Plano East
Senior High
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THE 21-DAY CHALLENGE AT WORK
WHAT’S COOKING!
Snacking is bad EVERYWHERE! Not only at home, in the
schools, but also in the workplace. Welcome to a new
branch of the kids teaching kidsSM tree, the
21 Day Challenge @ Work!
It’s a program that engages adults at work to develop healthier
snacking habits. Using recipes created by Texas ProStart
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students in the kids teaching kids program, the 21 Day
Challenge @ Work succeeds by creatively enticing the palate,
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while being conscious of a busy professional’s tight schedule.
Fruit or vegetable is a main component in every recipe,
using fresh foods to promote better snacking options. By
keeping ingredients and prep time to a minimum we are
able to simplify healthy snack choices, fueling workers for
an afternoon full of energy; an assertion that a sugar-filled
vending machine snack simply cannot make. The program
was piloted in November of 2014 and in the first quarter of
2015 eight top name companies will be participating. It is
off no cost to the company and like the 21-Day Challenge
at schools, we will be able to provide each company with
personalized data regarding their employees’ successes.
Be on the lookout in our 2016 report.
Here is a list of companies participating:
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LOOKING FORWARD
As we move forward in our endeavor to help kids develop life-long healthy eating habits, we will
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continue to evolve and grow the kids teaching kids program.
Medical City Children’s Hospital will extend our reach in educating and supporting communities that
want to be involved in the 21-Day Challenge. Next year we project that the number of students
participating in the 21-Day Challenge will more than triple, from 22K to over 75K. We will continue to
fine tune our data collection methods to ensure that we are providing the most accurate data on how
kids are changing their eating habits for the better.
Medical City Children’s Hospital will continue to educate and support Texas ProStart students
participating in the creation of snack books and Kids Fit Menu items. With the communities’
continued support, we will add more family restaurant partners to the cause, offering a nutritionally
balanced Kids Fit Menu featuring fruits and vegetables.
Ryan Eason
Corporate & Community Outreach
Medical City & Medical City Children’s Hospital
E-mail: ryan.eason@hcahealthcare.com
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ABOUT MEDICAL CITY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Medical City Children’s Hospital
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is a world-class pediatric hospital on the same campus as
Medical City, a hospital of specialists. Our innovative, nurturing atmosphere revolves around a singular idea:
Children aren’t just little adults. They have unique needs.
That’s why we offer comprehensive prenatal and pediatric services in virtually every pediatric specialty
and subspecialty—from many of the brightest minds in medicine. We treat everything from the routine to the
unexpected, from birth to age 18. We also help kids stay healthy through prevention and wellness exams.
For more than 25 years, our teams have helped thousands of children from more than 75 countries. Medical
City Children’s Hospital specialists are at the forefront of medical technologies that enable early diagnosis and
treatment.
Our specialists work collaboratively and believe that open communication with
parents and each child’s pediatrician contributes to better care. Patients also benefit from the care of nurses
who are truly at the top of their profession, as demonstrated by our designation as a Magnet facility by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
We provide pediatric care in an advanced, acute-care setting. Our staff includes pediatricians, pediatric
specialists and subspecialists, pediatric nurses, pharmacists, Child Life specialists, respiratory specialists,
occupational and physical therapists and social workers.
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