School-Based Initiatives for Addressing Overweight and Obesity

USDA

• Healthy Schools: Success Talk: a communication tool to link school health professionals, child nutrition educators, school leadership and policy makers to promote health nutrition in schools.
• Team Nutrition Promotes healthy nutrition in schools

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: School Health Index. A self-assessment tool to assist schools in identifying strengths and weaknesses of policies and environmental factors related to health issues.

Center for Science and the Public Interest: School-based initiative targeting teachers, school leadership and policy makers to reduce fat in milk, as fat in milk is the number one source of saturated fat in children’s diet. 

Massachusetts Public Health Association, Community Action Kit to Change School Food Policy: Organizing Kit

National Association of State Boards of Education

• Sample Policies to Encourage Healthy Eating in Schools
• Sample Policies to Encourage Physical Activity in Schools
  

PE4Life: Check-up checklist for PE in schools

Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University: School-Based Initiatives

The George Washington University: The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools  

• School health programs
• School-based Health Centers

Pinellas County STEPS to a Healthier Pinellas: Child Nutrition and Wic Reauthorization Act of 2004

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