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• Policy in Action: A Guide to Implementing Your Local School Wellness Policy
  California Project LEAN
  This easy-to-use guide includes a handout that allows you to prioritize key elements of your policy to implement. It also includes information on selecting strategies for implementing key elements of your policy based on experiences of others who have implemented similar policies. California Project LEAN provides training to support use of this tool.
  Download: Policy in Action: A Guide to Implementing Your Local School Wellness Policy
• Parent Outreach Brochure to Encourage More Parents to Get Involved in Local Wellness Policies
  The Food Research and Action Center has produced a parent outreach brochure to encourage more parents to get involved in creating local wellness policies for their school district. Parents are a critical part of creating implementing and updating school Wellness Policies. If you would like a copy of the brochure that can be customized with your own contact information, email abylander@frac.org
  Download: Parents Join School Wellness Team [139k pdf file]
• School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students
  The Food Research and Action Center developed this guide that addresses the special concerns of low-income students in local school wellness policies. The guide is intended to supplement other tools available for designing school wellness policies by providing strategies that address the unique needs of low-income students, families and communities.
  Download: School Wellness Policy and Low-Income Students [245k pdf file]
• Helping Students Make Better Food Choices in School
  Action for Healthy Kids has released this report which documents practical strategies to improve students' choices of foods at school and identifies that schools will need assistance as they begin to implement their wellness policy.
  Download: Helping Students Make Better Food Choices in School [1MB pdf file]
• The New Nutrition Standards: Implications For Student Wellness
  The California School Boards Association produced this policy brief in November 2005 on student wellness for its members.
  Download: CSBA Policy Brief [107k pdf file]
• California School Board Association Nutrition and Physical Activity Resources
  The California School Board Association has been proactive in providing resources to schools to develop their school wellness policies with the philosophy that "To better prepare students to learn, schools should provide education in an environment that gives students the skills, opportunities and encouragement they need to adopt healthy lifestyles." This page on the CSBA website has many useful resources.
  www.csba.org/ps/nutrition_phys_resources.cfm
• Promoting Fruits and Vegetables in Schools: Wellness Policy Opportunities
  The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) (www.pbhfoundation.org) has developed this document to help school district personnel increase opportunities for students to eat more fruits and vegetables as part of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Wellness Policy requirement.
  Download: Promoting Fruits and Vegetables in Schools [895k pdf file]
• Healthy School Food Policies Checklist
  The Center for Food and Justice produced this checklist containing 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.
  Download: Healthy School Food Policies Checklist [238k pdf file]
• California HealthyKids Resource Center
  This website provides a vast array of resources on school health topics, including Wellness Policies, research validated programs, School health laws, trainings and conferences and much more.
  www.hkresources.org/
• Model School Wellness Policies
  The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally-funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2006-2007 school year. The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) developed Model School Wellness policies to help guide school districts through this process.
  www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/WellnessPolicies.html