Support for School Health
Local Wellness Policies
Action
for Health Kids’ Wellness Policy Tool
The Action for Healthy Kids’ Wellness Policy Tool
has been developed with input from many Action for Healthy
Kids State Team members and partner organizations. This
tool has been designed to help Action of Health Kid State
Team Members create a local wellness policy that meets your
district's goals for nutrition and physical activity. The
Action for Healthy Kids Wellness Policy Tool allows you
to build your own policy by cutting and pasting language
from existing or model policies that have been gathered
from states and districts around the country. Follow the
steps below and use the searchable database to find ideas
for policy options that meet your district's needs.
Team
Nutrition’s Local Wellness Policy Resources
In an effort to have schools play a key role in addressing
childhood obesity, every school district that receives federal
school meals funds is required to establish a local “wellness
policy” by the first day of school following June
30, 2006. The new requirement can be found in Section 204
of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act (PL 108-265),
which was signed into law on June 30, 2004. The law requires
parents, students, representatives of the school food authority,
the school board, school administrators, and community organizations
to be involved in the development of the wellness policy.
Team Nutrition, an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition
Service, recently developed this Local Wellness Policy web
page with information and resources to assist local schools
and communities in the process of setting up a local wellness
policy.
School
Nutrition Association’s Sample Local Wellness Policies
The School Nutrition Association works to ensure all children
have access to healthful school meals and nutrition education.
This website offers comprehensive information on child and
school nutrition as well as background information on the
National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Programs,
and Special Milk Program. This site also provides sample
wellness policies that can be adapted by school districts
in creating district wide policies.
National
Alliance for Nutrition and Activity’s Model Local
Wellness Policies
The model nutrition and physical activity policies below
meet the new federal requirement. This comprehensive set
of model nutrition and physical activity policies contained
on this web page are based on nutrition science, public
health research, and existing practices from exemplary states
and local school districts around the country.
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