Available Resources and Websites for Local Wellness
Policy
USDA
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Guidance/default.htm
Iowa
Bureau of Nutrition Programs
http://www.state.a.us/educate/ecese/fn/
Changing
the Scene: Improving the School
Nutrition Environment. Tool Kit
September 2000. United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
Service. 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 1010. Alexandria, VA 22302. Website: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/changing.html
Fit,
Healthy and Ready to Learn
Part 1: Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Tobacco-Use Prevention.
Chapter E: Policies to Promote Healthy Eating.
National Association of State Boards of Education
http://www.nasbe.org Included as part of the Changing the Scene Tool Kit
Team
Nutrition curriculum and resources
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html
School
Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Self-Assessment and
Planning Guide (2004)
http://apps/nccd.cdc.gov/shi/HealthyYouth/planning.htm
or www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/SHI
Making
it Happen: School Nutrition Success Stories
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/execsummary_makingithappen.html
ISU
Extension
www.extension.iastate.edu/nutrition
Click on "Ask the Specialist" and at bottom of page for Nutrition
Staff Directory
Action
for Healthy Kids (AFHK)
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org
Center
for Science in the Public Interest http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/improved_school_foods_without_losing_revenue2.pdf
http://www.cspinet.org/schoolfood/school_foods_kit_part2.pdf
School
Foods Tool Kit: A Guide to Improving School Foods and Beverages
Part 1. Sept.
2003. Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Nutrition Policy
Project, 1875 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009.
Website: http://cspinet.org/schoolfood/index.html
Dispensing
Junk: How School Vending Undermines Efforts to Feed Children Well
May 2004. Center for Science in the
Public Interest. (CSPI), 1875 Connecticut Ave,
NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009.
E
Michigan
State University Extension
http://www.tn.fcs.msue.msu.edu/foodrewards.pdf
Michigan
Team Nutrition Healthy School Nutrition Environment Checklist
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/MI_checklist.pdf
Keys
to Excellence:
Standard of Practice for Nutrition Integrity
http://www.asfsa.org/childnutrition/keys/
National
Association of School Boards
http://www.nasbe.org
Sample
Policies language
http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/nana.html
Healthy
classroom celebrations
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/2372/15801.pdf
Fundraising
ideas without food http://actionforhealthykids.org/filelib/toolsforteams/recom/Available%20Resources%20and%20Tools%20-%20Healthy%20Alternatives%20to%20Selling%20Candy%20for%20Raising%20Funds%20for%20Schools.pdf
National
Alliance for Nutrition and Activity
(NANA)
Sample
Policies http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/WellnessPolicies.html#monitoring
Rhode
Island Sample Policies
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/ri_model.pdf
NANA
http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/