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Resources:
Policy Development
- Steps for Advancing Local Policy
This document details a step-by-step process for implementing and advancing local policies.
- Examples of
Local Policies on Healthy Eating and Active Living
This document provides a list of examples of policies that have been implemented in communities across the country.
- Leadership
for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit
This web page offers information on and a free download of the Action Strategies Toolkit. The strategies outlined in this toolkit are divided into several policy areas in order to increase awareness of the promising evidence-based policy options to reduce childhood obesity. To facilitate ease of use among policy-makers with various jurisdictions and areas of expertise, this toolkit has been organized into two main sections – Active Living and the Built Environment, and Healthy Eating – each of which is further divided into subsections.
- School Wellness
Policies – Engaging Stakeholders
Those interested in creating health and fitness policy change in their school system may find these few PowerPoint slides and notes valuable when first engaging the key stakeholders: administration, parents, etc. This accompanies the “School Wellness Inventory Form” (below). This presentation was originally presented to the Missouri Foundation for Health Peer to Peer training workshop in 2009.
- School
Wellness Inventory Form
This instrument is a universal school wellness tool that can be used to develop, implement, evaluate and continuously improve school wellness policies and related wellness activities. This tool is discussed in the “School Wellness Policies – Engaging Stakeholders” PowerPoint (above).
- School Food and Beverage Guidelines
– Success Stories
This document includes a variety of success stories from schools and districts that have improved the healthfulness of their food and beverage offerings while simultaneously maintaining or increasing total revenue from food and beverage sales. Some common factors of success and key take-aways are also provided.
- Overcoming Challenges to Adopting
and Implementing School Food & Beverage Guidelines
This is a PowerPoint presentation from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. The presentation provides a clear explanation of the guidelines for food and beverages in public schools, the options for negotiating with bottling companies for healthier options for schools, and the challenges and solutions to those challenges facing school personnel desiring healthier options for their students.
- For more information on Policy Development, see Steps to develop your community health intiative: Step 3 Resources.
