Wellness Fair: Health, Safety, Nutrition

This document discusses the rationale and event plan for a wellness fair focusing on health, safety, and nutrition. It explores the importance of comprehensive health education, safety awareness, and nutritional planning for children. The fair aims to promote a healthy lifestyle and improve the overall well-being of children.

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Part 1: Rationale
Wellness Fair: Health
The first approach taken for the promotion of health is Whole Child Approach in
order to ensure that every student enrols under the school health program and comprehensive
promotion of healthy lifestyle (Lewallen, Hunt, Potts‐Datema, Zaza & Giles, 2015). For
comprehensive health education both physical education (physical exercise) and nutritional
services was undertaken. This will help in the management of obesity and malnutrition. In the
class profile, there is a child who is suffering from hypothyroidism. Weight gain is one of
principal symptom of hypothyroidism and diabetes and thus physical education will help in
overcoming the threats of obesity (Sanyal & Raychaudhuri, 2016). The socio-economic status
of all the children in the class is either low or middle. Bowers, Francis and Kraschnewski
(2018) stated that in U.S, the children who are from the low or middle socio-economic status
have dual burden of malnutrition (obesity or non-communicable disease is couple with
malnutrition). The nutritional services will help in overcoming the vulnerability of
malnutrition. In the nutritional service, special focus in give for the class room students who
have certain level of food level allergies like peanut and citrus. Peanut or citrus allergy leads
to the generation of type 1 hypersensitivity reaction causing an outbreak of skin infection,
swelling in throat and shortness in breath. Such effect can prove to be fatal for a child and
proper attention of food allergy is vital for nutritional service planning. While giving physical
education basal metabolic rate (BMR), amount of calorie intake and basal metabolic index
(BMI). Lewallen, Hunt, Potts‐Datema, Zaza and Giles (2015) argued that for proper health
education of a child must encompass these terms through verbal description in order to
increase their comprehensive knowledge about of quality of life and health. The equipments
to be used for health education are food charts, nutritional brochures, and power-point

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presentations. The interactive sessions will be helpful for the students having visual
impairment and learning disability.
Wellness Fair: Safety
In the wellness fair of safety, both physical safety and emotional safety of the child
were taken under consideration. Child physical abuse is one of the important causes of
pediatric mortality and morbidity in U.S and is associated with serious mental and physical
health complications that cast adverse effect during adulthood (Christian & Committee on
Child Abuse and Neglect, 2015). Under this wellness fair, the child will be educated
regarding where to seek help in case of becoming victim of sexual assault. Van der Kolk
(2017) highlight that majority of the children who are victims of sexual abuse either fails to
understand that they are becoming victims or suffer from fear of reporting the same. Having
knowledge about types of physical abuse and how to report it, will help in overcoming the
mental health trauma of childhood physical abuse. In order to address complains on their own
(or by taking help from parents, as they are kindergarten child), student with internet access
at home will be given special avenues and thus assisting in instant reporting of the abuse.
Nearly 50% of the children of the selected class have internet access and thus helping to
promote fast reporting of the cases of abuse. For ensuring further health safety education will
be given in diabetic health and hypothyroidism and the focus of the education will parents, as
they will help to manage the proper lifestyle of the affect child. Sverdlov and Aram (2016)
stated that for child in a kindergarten school, parents are the focus of education for promotion
of the physical health and safety. Improving physical health and safety will help in improving
their mental health status.
Wellness Fair: Nutrition
The main instructional decision for this wellness program is comprehensive
participation of the all students irrespective of their socio-economic status. All the students,

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taking into consideration of their disabilities will be asked to participate in the nutritional
program. The encouragement of the student to work on their effective communication skills
will help the student to not only learn about the process of healthy nutrition but also to work
excel in the interpersonal skills (Nagahori, Tchuani & Yamauchi, 2015). The use of care
games in order to make the student acquainted with the terms like nutrition, nutrients,
vitamins, minerals and balanced diet will help the student to understand the concept of
nutrition. The use of the cards will help to attract the attention f the students who are aged
between 55 to 6 years and will also help to refine their spelling, reading and writing skills.
Nutrition is not separated from the physical exercise. Proper practice of physical exercise
along with adherence of nutrition helps to improve healthy lifestyle habits and thus helping
the children to have comprehensive health and well-being. Under the instructional decision,
computers will be used in order for physical activity planning. However, few gaps can be
easily highlighted in the instructional decision of the nutritional wellness plan. For example,
in the effective communication, only students are recruited as the main participants.
However, the children who are between 4 to 5 years of age, parents also play an important
role in the nutritional planning. Moreover, children who have learning disabilities, the role of
the parents become crucial for increasing the nutritional education and planning (Petit et al.
2016). No special considerations have been taken for the students who do not have proper
internet access at home.

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Part II: Wellness Fair Event Plan
Agenda
The first educational program of the parents along with the children will initiate with
generation of awareness about health (physical and mental health). Then focus will be shifted
towards the physical health and under physical health the nutritional importance of the
students will be given importance. After nutritional learning, mental and physical health will
further come into focus in unison where the parents will be educated regarding how physical
abuse over children can endanger their safety (mental and physical safety) along with proper
reporting of the abuse to concerned person. So if the wellness fair plan begins at 10 m in the
morning, first 2 hours of the fair will focus on health and this will be followed by another 2
hours of nutritional education. After this there would be recess hour followed by 2 hours of
education and awareness about safety.
Time Event
9 am to 10 am Inaugural function (opening activity) along with distribution of snacks
10 am to 12 pm Education and awareness about children’s health
12 pm to 2 pm Education and awareness about children’s nutritional need
2 pm to 3 pm Tiffin break
3 pm to 5 pm Education and awareness about safety issues about children
Welcome
The introduction of each events to the participants will be given through power-point
presentation (audio-visual presentation). The introduction of each power-point presentation
will start will any current news reporting or a true events focusing on the importance of the
health, nutrition and safety of a child between the age group of 5 to 10 years. showing real

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life stories (like the victims of child’s sexual abuse) or using data from the current statistics
will help the parents who understand the importance of the fair and the vulnerability of their
child in getting affected with any one of these agenda discussed in the fair.
Opening activity
Designing of the opening activity will take place in the presence of a community health
nurse. The opening activity of the program will begin with an introductory speech from the
community health nurse stating the importance of the health, nutrition and safety in child’s
health. The speech will last for 15 minutes. This will be followed by a sit and draw
competition with eco-friendly colors by the use of hands. Both the parents (either mother or
father or both) and the child will take part in the activity. The drawing competition will be
based on a specific theme that is “healthy and life”. The time limit of the drawing
competition will be 30 minutes. The use of sit and draw activity will help to engage the child
in the wellness fair and making partnership with the parent will help to increase the bonding
with the parents. The bonding and effective communication with the parents is one of the
keys for promoting comprehensive health and well-being of a child (de Cock et al. 2017).
The drawing activity will be followed by a speech of a community health nurse. The motion
of the oration will be to make parents understand the importance of their presence in the life
of the child and how they can assists the child in every step of their growing years for making
it better.
Community resource booth
The community resource booth will be installed in the wellness fair in order to offer
information on various extension programs. It will also provide sign-up sheets for each of the
extension activities like educational workshops and physical exercise workshops. Here the
participants of the wellness fair will sign-in and will register for the door prizes. The name of
the participants from these door prize registrations will be kept in the database for generating

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mailing lists. Mails will be sent regarding diet plan and physical exercise plan for the
children.
Community resource booth for health
According to the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2017), 18.4% of
the children between the age group of 5 to 18 years are obese. The number of mortality
arising from obesity related issues among the children in The United States is 4,045 per
100,000 of populations. The death associated with obesity mainly arises from high blood
pressure or hypertension, high blood cholesterol and childhood diabetes. In the domain of
mental health, 9.4% of the children in the US. aged between 2 to 17 years suffer from
attention deficient hyper active disorder. 7.4% of the children suffer from behavioral related
disorder followed by anxiety and depression (CDC, 2019). The main reason behind this is
high stress in schools and high expectations from the parents to earn good marks. The
children having behavioral problems hamper the process of healthy development.
The role of this booth will be make the parents understand how obesity and mental
health of children hamper their process development and later part of academic life. The
parent of visually and hearing impaired children will be educated that there are several NGOs
that help physically challenged children from poor or middle socio-economic status with
proper academic aids. Like for visually impaired children, brails are used and for hearing
impaired children, hearing aids are supplied. In that way, these children become independent
by attending basic academic requirement and helping to succeed in life with high self-esteem.
High self-esteem helps to improve the overall health. The name and numbers of the NGOs
will be supplied along with language support from interpreter to help understand the
instructions written in English.

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Community resource booth for nutrition
According to the American Heart Association (2019), the diet plan of children
between the age group of 3 to 10 years much be rich in saturated fats, trans fat, cholesterol,
added sugars and salt. The total fat intake for the children between the age group of 2 to 3
years must be 30 to 35% and the percentage increases by 25 to 35% between the age group of
4 to 18years. The main source will be fish, nuts and vegetable oils (poly-saturated and mono-
saturated fatty acids). The estimated calorie requirement for a child (1 year old) is 900 kilo
calories per day and the overall requirement of calorie increases with age. The boys require
more calorie per day in comparison to the girls. The parents of child suffering from diabetes
and thyroid will be educated about the importance of low carbohydrate and high nutritional
diet (rich in fruits and vegetables). Using this statics will help the parents to understand the
importance of calorific intake of a child for promoting optimal development and preventing
obesity. The parents whose child are suffering from allergies like peanut allergies and citrus
allergies will be given an opportunity to consult with trained dietician in order to plan diet
plan accordingly. Again interpreter will be used in case the parents from the poor socio-
economic status are not well-acquainted in English. Colorful poster showing name and list of
food will be used in order to make the parents easily understand the importance of balanced
diet in the life of children.
Community resource booth for safety
The statics that will used in the safety booth is

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Figure: Sexual abuse in children in US
(Source: RAINN, 2019)
Here the patients will be educated by the agencies that works for the children who are the
victims of the child abuse and the contact number of the agencies who are assigned to take
proper actions against the child abuse.
The list of agencies working the children who are victims of child abuse:
1. Child Welfare Information Gateway
2. Child abuse and neglect prevention organizations
3. Prevent Child Abuse in America
Circulating these information will be helpful for the parents to report early reporting of child
abuse (sexual or mental) and thus helping to take the required action on proper time. The

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parent of emotionally disabled child will be given proper training under the guidance of the
mental health nurse in order understand and take patient-centered interventions for that child.
Rationale
Wellness Fair supports collaboration between faculty, students, families, and the
larger community because in the wellness fair active collaboration will come from the
community health nurse for preparing person or patient-centered care plan. The initiatives to
design the wellness fair with children and their parents will help to increase the bonding
between the children and their parents and at the same time will help to increase the
awareness of the parents about the health of the child. Piotrowska et al. (2017) stated that
parenting programs are one of the best-evidenced based practice and effective interventions
for decreasing the mental health complications associated with the children who are in their
kindergarten. A comprehensive model of the parental engagement under the support of the
teachers and the nurses best entails the process of connection and enactment that helps in
improve the child’s developmental environment. It also helps to improve the parental
strategies and thus helping to increase the overall health and well-being of the child.
According to the increasing the awareness among the mother about the girl child sexual abuse
has significant impact to taking prompt actions (Thapa et al., 2018). Recruiting family
members in the promotion of child’s safety and health needs help in the generation of the
family centered care plan and thereby helping to improve the overall outcome of care (Lester
et al., 2016). Rao et al. (2019) stated that mothers of children suffering from mental health
complications needs to be educated about the changing health needs of their child. This helps
to increase the awareness among the families and at the same time helps in the generation of
family centered care plan.

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