Maine Physical Activity & Nutrition Program

Healthy Weight Awareness Campaign

The Healthy Weight Awareness Campaign provides low-income Maine families eligible for the Maine Food Supplement Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program) with information to take simple steps to help children and families eat healthfully and be active. The Healthy Weight Awareness Campaign is a partnership between the Maine CDC and the Maine Nutrition Network and is funded by the by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Formative research is conducted with the target audience to develop campaign messages. To see reports from all formative work conducted to date, please click here.

To view and/or download our campaign materials, scroll down, or click on the topic area below. To order materials below, please fill out the Materials Order form located on the left hand navigation bar (for in-state partners only):

 

 

Physical Activity Resources:

Winter Physical Activity

  • See the TV spot!
  • Winter Workout Poster

Healthy Maine Walks/Indoor Walking

  • See the TV spot!
  • Hear the radio spot!
  • These are athletic shoes

Healthy Maine Walks/Outdoor Walking

  • See the TV spot!
  • Hear the radio spot!
  • See the newspaper ad!
  • These are athletic shoes

Use Your Home As a Gym

Make Time for Family Fun! Kit

  • See the Make Time for Family Fun! Kit

Walk For Life

  • See the Walk for Life brochure!

Play

  • Physical Activity Magnet

 

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Nutrition Resources:

Portion Sizes

  • See the Portion Size TV spot!
  • See the Extra Weight TV spot!
  • Hear the radio spot!
  • See the tip sheet!
  • Are your Portions in Proportion
  • See the magnet
  • See the brochure

   

Fruit and Vegetable Brochure

  • See the Fruit and Vegetable brochure!
  • See the Fruit and Vegetable magnet!

Pack a Healthy Picnic

  • See the Pack a Healthy Picnic brochure!
  • Recipes
  • Shopping List

 

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Other Resources:

Screen Time

  • See the TV spot!
  • See the poster!

TV Off/Out of Your Bedroom

  • Hear the radio spot!
  • See the poster!

Simple Steps Toward Better Health

  • See the Simple Steps Kit!

  • DRP PAN Slide Show & Tip Cards

 

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Maine’s Healthy Weight Awareness Campaign Materials:
Availability to Out-of-State Partners

 

All materials can be downloaded from this website as a free PDF.

Once you have finished selecting materials, complete the attached request form and send to Tina White at tina.m.white@maine.gov. You will be contacted by E-mail or telephone to discuss your selections, including pricing and terms of use. All files are available in Quark 7/Mac File, (on a PC fonts will have to be replaced). Most materials available through the HWAC will be offered at low or no cost. There may be some additional costs associated with the purchasing of photography, modifications to existing materials and delivery services.

When you have selected the actual print materials you wish to use the producing agency will send you a use agreement that confirms your obligation to pay the associated costs.

Once we receive your signed agreement, we will either send you the file, or alter the requested materials to your specifications. The CD will be shipped to you, your agency or printing vendor as you specify.