Steps for Creating Local Policy
Step up to Wellness! A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to developing and implementing a school wellness policy. Detailed instructions and guidelines from start to finish.

Wellness Policy Toolkit Developed by Wyoming Action for Healthy Kids
Don’t Reinvent the Wellness Wheel. Another comprehensive resource providing sample policy language for each of the wellness policy components: nutrition education, physical activity, nutrition standards, and other school-based activities designed to promote student wellness.

Community Action to Change School Food Policy: An Organizing Kit
Get organized! This is a comprehensive resource, developed by the Massachusetts Public Health Association, that school districts can use in the development of their wellness policies. From assembling a committee, to passing the policy, this site provides excellent samples, helpful hints, and a variety of policy strategies.

Model Guidelines for Health & Wellness
Detailed suggestions for meeting the requirements of Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act. Excellent examples and strategies for implementing the goals of your wellness policy.

Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A School Health Policy Guide
Become a policy pro! This guide, developed by the National Association of State Boards of Education, provides detailed suggestions for policy development and samples of policy best practices.

School Wellness Policy and Practice:
Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students
This tool, released by the Food Research and Action Center, is a guide that addresses the special concerns of low-income students in local school wellness policies. The guide provides sample policies, model programs and key research, with a special emphasis on the nutrition concerns of low-income children and communities.

School Wellness Policy Worksheet – Steps for Development and Implementation
Work it out! Download this worksheet to help walk you through the policy process. Provides space for note taking and brainstorming. Use the information you record on this worksheet to write your policy.

Iowa State University Extension – Tips for Preparing a Wellness Policy
A basic outline of the necessary steps, policy requirements, and resources.

The Components of a Wellness Policy
The New England Food & Dairy Council provides an outline, and sample policy goals for each of 4 components: Nutrition Education, Physical Activity, Nutrition Standards, and Other Wellness Activities.

Action for Healthy Kids: Wellness Policy Tool & Template
General guidelines for developing wellness policies and goals, as well as a template which can be adapted to suit the individual needs of your schools.

USDA’s Healthy School Environment: Changing the Scene Toolkit
An excellent resource for teachers, principals, school food service personnel, and parents interested in the development of wellness policies. It provides guidelines and helpful hints for improving the school nutrition environment. Also find sample letters, brochures, and activities.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) School Health Guidelines
Promote a lifetime of healthy eating among young people with these strategies outlined by the CDC. These recommendations can be used to help develop goals for Wellness policies.

Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Promoting Healthy Weight in Children
Use these guidelines to help promote physical activity, healthy eating, and a nurturing environment for children. Strategies focus on the whole child – physically, mentally, and socially.

Local School Wellness Policy: A Team Approach
Find out what you missed at The National Food Service Management Institute’s program on Local School Wellness Policy development. This program provides child nutrition professionals and other key players in the school and community an opportunity to learn about the most current school wellness policy information.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest: Nutrition Policy
CSPI provides great policy ideas such as ways to promote fruit and vegetable intake or increasing physical activity. This site also provides detailed facts and figures about trends in eating behaviors, physical activity, and weight.

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
In addition to some basic information about Wellness policies, “Wisconsin Resources” offers some suggestions for expanding wellness policies beyond the initial requirements and developing alternate goals and objectives to promote wellness.

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