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Nutrition & Physical Activity: School Wellness Policies |
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The Child Nutrition Act requires that all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program create a local wellness policy by June 2006. |
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Successful Students Through Healthy Food and Fitness Policies |
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The California School Boards Association and California Project LEAN have developed a new Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide for school governance leaders. It was created based on feedback from school board members, superintendents. The Guide provides school governance leaders with a step-by-step approach to enhance the school environment so students can develop and practice healthy eating habits. The Guide outlines the link between nutrition, physical activity and learning; addresses the health status of children and youth; highlights school districts that successfully offer healthy foods and beverages; offers recommendations for a comprehensive nutrition and physical activity policy; and provides sample policies and resources.
Additional resources from the California School Board Association:
Sample CSBA board policy: Student Wellness
Development of physical activity policy
Aligning policies for student health and achievement |
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Tool for Local Wellness Policy Writing |
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The Action for Healthy Kids Wellness Policy Tool offers a running start to thousands of administrators and other school personnel charged with drafting their district's policy. The Action for Healthy Kids has made available a Wellness Policy Tool that can help guide the drafting of local wellness policies. The tool, a searchable database of policies (state and district), has an easy-to-use template, a listing of fundamental elements to consider including in your policy, and access to hundreds of individual policy components that can be cut and pasted into the template to create a local wellness policy unique to each district. The extensive database is easily searchable by the five wellness policy topic areas specified in the Child Nutrition Act. Individual components of sample wellness policies are also searchable by state. The database will be updated as new policies emerge. |
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Sample School Wellness Policies |
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The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Team Nutrition's website serves as a clearinghouse of information on the components that should be considered when establishing a school wellness policy. Examples of policies already developed by schools and State agencies are provided as resources and references. These policies are not endorsed by USDA nor do they represent a comprehensive list. They are provided to enable schools to have a variety of examples for local policy development. |
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"Healthy School Food Policies: A Checklist" |
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The Center for Food and Justice, a division of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, has released an updated version of "Healthy School Food Policies: A Checklist." The Checklist contains 65 policy ideas for improving school food, with legislative language for each idea drawn from policies that have been enacted or proposed at the state or school district levels. This updated version contains dozens of new policies drawn from a much wider range of sources than the original 2002 release. The Center continues to gather examples of healthy school food policies, so if you are aware of a policy or proposal that is not referenced in the checklist, send it to mvalli@oxy.edu. |
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