About TFDP

• FDP Informative brochure
• FDP Donors brochure
• Eat, Laugh, Talk Book promotional flyer

Benefits of Family Dinner Folder

• Benefits of Family Dinner designed pdf
• Benefits of Family Dinner Adults designed .PDF
• 3 additional designed pdfs, broken down by age

Dinner Games and Activities

• Approximately 50 dinner game printables/shareables
• 3 collections of dinner games for Early Learners
• Printable placemat design template
• PDF printable/shareable of family dinner tasks by age

Literacy Fun and Conversation

• 8 designed, shareable Family Dinner and Literacy fun/conversation collections

Recipes Folder

• 9 fully designed, printable double-sided “Dinner Tonight” cards with recipes,
  activities, and conversation starters
  Sample Conversation Starters by Theme
• 6 themed sub-folders, containing approximately 20-30 shareable/printable designed
  conversation starters each
• 10 printable cut-out conversation starter collections by subject matter, plus 2 shareable
  infographic conversation starter collections
• 13 designed, shareable/printable Recipe for Conversation cards by theme

Spanish Resources

• 3 collections of printable/shareable Recipe for Conversation cards in Spanish
• 25 designed, printable game/activity cards in Spanish
• 3 designed, printable double-sided “Dinner Tonight” cards in Spanish
• 4 designed, printable/shareable Benefits of Family dinner handouts in Spanish

Tips and Guides

• 6 full pdf training toolkits covering a wide variety of facilitation and event setup topics
• 7 full pdf Welcoming Table tip sheet resources
• 2 downloadable, printable tip sheets for special audiences

Family Meals Movement

• Link to online toolkit
• Community Collaborators Toolkit

The Family Dinner Project

The Family Dinner Project, a nonprofit initiative started in 2010, champions family dinner as an opportunity for family members to connect with each other through food, fun and conversation about things that matter.

More than 20 years of scientific research shows “why” family mealtimes are so important. The Family Dinner Project provides the “how” for today’s busy families. Our team members have come from varied personal and professional backgrounds, including education, family therapy, research, food, social work, marketing and communication. With nonprofit partners and local champions, The Family Dinner Project team works online and at community events to help families increase the frequency, meaning and long-term benefits of their shared meals. We are based in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Psychiatry Academy.

The Center for Families at Purdue University

The Center for Families provides a way for faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of Purdue to help improve the quality of life for families. We serve as a catalyst to integrate outreach, teaching, and research activities that support families. We increase and enhance collaboration among academic disciplines, professionals, policymakers, corporations, and community organizations to bring about change focused on families.

Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences

Purdue Extension Health and Human Sciences provides education to individuals and communities in each of Indiana’s diverse counties. We bring university information to the local level – both in person and online – to help people strengthen relationships, eat smart, improve health, and achieve financial wellness. Health and Human Sciences Extension is a part of the mission of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Purdue University and Purdue Extension.

Association for Family and Consumer Sciences

The Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (Indiana) is the only professional association dedicated to Family & Consumer Sciences professionals. AAFCS strives to improve the quality and standards of individual and family life by providing educational programs, influencing public policy, and through communication. AAFCS members work to empower individuals, strengthen families, and enable communities. Our members focus on an integrative approach to the reciprocal relationships among individuals, families and communities, as well as the environments in which they function.

Indiana Extension Homemakers Association

It is the mission of the Indiana Extension Homemakers Association® to strengthen families through continuing education, leadership development, and volunteer community support. We share information on new knowledge and research with our members and communities, promote programs on developing skills and family issues, and we support projects which help children and families in today’s world.

Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program

The Purdue Extension Nutrition Education Program (NEP) works to make the healthy choice the easy choice where limited-resource Hoosiers live, eat, work, play and shop. The program is supported by two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) educational programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).

FMI, Foundation – Family Meals Movement

FMI Foundation delivers vital research, collaboration and education to address food safety, health and nutrition concerns. Established in 1996, the FMI Foundation seeks to ensure continued quality and efficiency in the food retailing system and is operated for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. To help support the role of food retailing, the FMI Foundation focuses on research, education and resources in the area of health and well-being, which includes food safety, nutrition and social responsibility considerations. As the association of food retailers, it is the mission of FMI, the Food Industry Association, and its Foundation to highlight the role of grocers and to bring our industry together around a family meal movement encouraging one more meal at home per week. The family meal movement will culminate in September with National Family Meals Month™.