{"id":61749,"date":"2012-06-20T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=61749"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:26:14","slug":"husky-nutrition-program-wins-community-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/06\/husky-nutrition-program-wins-community-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Husky Nutrition Program Wins Community Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2012 Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford Community Partner Hall of Fame Award recipients (left to right): Luis Rivera, program coordinator, Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Hartford, Connecticut Children's Medical Center Injury Prevention Center; Josh Clauser, University of Connecticut's Center for Public Health and Health Policy, Husky Nutrition; and University of Hartford Dance Department, Community Division. (Lisa Miceli Feliciano\/Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford (BGCH) recently presented Community Excellence Awards for its newly established Community Partner Hall of Fame. The Husky Nutrition<\/strong><\/a> program, which is administered by the UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy<\/a>, was chosen as an inaugural inductee. Registered dietitian Josh Clauser accepted the award on behalf of Husky Nutrition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Community Partner Hall of Fame Award recipients this year were thoughtfully chosen based on their service this year, and beyond, to our organization, its club members and families,\u201d says Lisa Feliciano with BGCH. \u201cThis will become an annual recognition event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with UConn\u2019s Husky Nutrition, the University of Hartford\u2019s Dance Department and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Injury Prevention Center were also honored as 2012\u2019s most generous, strongest and well-established partnerships.<\/p>\n

Husky Nutrition has served BGCH for nine years on a weekly basis at multiple club sites including Asylum Hill, Northwest, Simpson-Waverly, and Trinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were a natural pick for providing quality, nutrition-based programs, in sync not only with the core elements of our Healthy Habits<\/em> structure and practices, but with First Lady Michele Obama\u2019s focus on healthy eating as well,\u201d says Feliciano. \u201cHusky\u2019s approach is in tandem with BGCH\u2019s in that good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, via fun and engaging instruction, can be affordable, attainable and sustainable for our kids and families.<\/p>\n

Each year, Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford plans and coordinates an end of the year celebration that highlights club members, their families and their community partners during the school year. This year, the organization recognized outstanding club members in the areas of academic success,\u00a0good character, citizenship and healthy lifestyles during a red-carpet celebration at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church\u2019s Drew Hall on June 7.<\/p>\n

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The Boys and Girls Club of Hartford recognized the program for promoting quality, nutrition-based programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":61756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-61749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:36:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61759,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61749\/revisions\/61759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/61756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61749"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=61749"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}