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Pre-registration required. To register, please call The Salvation Army at 245-4659 What: A fun, informative nutrition class designed especially for busy Mom's and Dad's who want to provide their families with good, healthy food while stretching their food dollars. There will be two sessions from which you can choose. The Salvation Army will provide each participant with a food voucher to purchase the ingredients to make the recipe of the week for their family. When: October 4, 2011 - November 22, 2011 (Tuesdays) Session 1 - 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Session 2 - 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

What: Health/Nutrition Advisory Committee Meeting and Luncheon When: May 5, 2011 11:30am - 1:00pm Mountain Where: North Park Conference Room 615 North 19th Street Please RSVP to Jenny at 406-869-1202

What:We will be holding an additional focus group for parents of children and adolescents with disabilities. in the . Please extend an invite to any parents who might be interested in participating. We are examining messaging related to nutrition and physical activity for children and adolescents with disabilities as part of a grant funded project through NACCHO.When:Thursday, February 9, 20125:30-6:30pmWhere:Mansfield Health Education Center, Room 72900 12th Ave. N. 30Contact:April Keippel, MAOWH Grant Project CoordinatorSt. Vincent Healthcare1233 N 30th Billings, MT 59101Phone: (406)237-3378 Email: april.keippel@svh-mt.org

Alcoholism. Respiratory disease. Cancer. Obesity.  We're told that these can be the results of genetics, stress and poor nutrition. But in recent years, an extraordinary, retrospective study reveals that childhood abuse may lie at the core of some diseases that show up in middle-aged adults. IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell talks to Dr. Vincent Felitti about the physiological results of psychological trauma.

When: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:00-7:30pm Where: Home Arts Building at Fairgrounds (enter off of South Avenue) What: Please joins us for this free event. Organizations and services for families will be under one roof, one night only, to provide information and support to families of Missoula County. Included, but not limited to, after-school programs, health and nutrition services, recreation programs, employment services, housing, legal services and support services. Dinner will be served.

The Brain Balance Achievement Center, a franchise that opened in Mequon last summer, offers a program that it contends can help children overcome attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, Asperger's syndrome, Tourette syndrome, autism and other disorders. The 12-week program - costing $6,000, plus roughly $125 to $500 in nutritional supplements - purportedly does this by addressing an imbalance between the right and left sides of the brain that it calls "functional disconnection syndrome." The program is based on the contention that ADHD, dyslexia, autism and other disorders all result from this syndrome. "That functional disconnection syndrome basically states in the literature that the two sides of the brain are not communicating effectively together due to the fact that one side of the brain is actually maturing at a faster rate than the other side," said Jeremy Fritz, a chiropractor and co-owner of the franchise. The "literature" consists of one study of children with ADHD, co-authored by the program's founder, published in an obscure journal based in Tel Aviv, Israel. There are no studies in respected, peer-reviewed journals that contend ADHD, dyslexia, autism and other disorders stem from the development of one side of the brain faster than the other. "None of the neuro research would even come close to suggesting that," said Mina Dulcan, a professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the head of the child and adolescent psychiatry program at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

An expert panel is calling into question notions that children with autism are more likely to experience gastrointestinal problems and says that research does not support the use of special diets as a primary treatment of the developmental disorder.

Electronic Registration: Opens March 1, 2010 http://www.montana.edu/cs/mbi This Year's Hot Topics: Parent/Family/Community Involvement Montana Schools – Best Practices Strand Targeted/Intensive Interventions Academic Supports Early Childhood Classroom Management Safe Schools Nutrition And much more!