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Community Forums:
Food,
Fitness, and Our Kids
Community Resources
Healthy Schools in Washington
Website Link
Healthy
Schools in Washington:
Source:
Center for Public Health Nutrition and Partners, Updated
Regularly
This
website is a primary resource for individuals and groups
looking to improve nutrition and physical activity in their
schools. Healthy Schools in Washington is dedicated to
providing information and tools tailored to groups including
students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and school
board members.
Action
Tools:
Changing the Scene
- Improving the School Nutrition Environment
Source: Food and
Nutrition Services, United States Department of Agriculture
Changing the Scene is a tool kit to help locals take action
to improve their school's nutrition environment. The
kit includes a variety of tools to raise awareness and
address school environment issues that influence student's
eating and physical activity practices
School
Health Index
Source:
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The School Health Index (SHI) is a self assessment and
planning tool that will enable users to identify strengths
and weaknesses of your schools nutrition and physical
activity programs and policies, develop an action plan, and
involve the school and larger community in improving school
policies and programs
Washington
State Department of Health: Nutrition & Activity Plan:
Washington
State Nutrition and Physical Activity Plan: Policy &
Environmental Approaches
Source:
Washington State Department of Health; Diabetes, Nutrition,
& Physical Activity Program, June 2003
An
evidence-based plan for implementing nutrition and physical
activity policies and programs in Washington State.
PowerPoint
on Health & Student Achievement:
Making the
Connection: Health and Student Achievement
Source: Society of
State Directors of Health, Physical Education and
Recreation
This PowerPoint
presentation lays out the evidence between health and student
achievement. It focuses more on the benefits of a
healthy student population than it does on the risks of an
unhealthy student population.
More
Background
Articles:
Action for Healthy
Kids: Tools for Action
Source: Action for
Healthy Kids
An excellent
collection of resources on a wide range of topics.
Healthy
Schools for Healthy Kids
Source:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A
useful report that synthesizes teacher and parent opinion in regards to
nutrition and physical activity in schools with results from a national
policy and program review. This review also highlights exceptional
district policies, promising practices and programs.
PDF
Issue
Brief: The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
Source:
The Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2004
An
up-to-date review of research that explores the connection of media and
childhood obesity. Included in this brief are media-related policy
recommendations and suggestions for ways that media could positively
influence this public health problem.
PDF
More Media
Management Articles:
Issue 10: Newspaper
Coverage of Childhood Nutrition Policies
Source: Berkeley
Media Studies Group, August 2001
News coverage can have
a strong influence on how the public and policy makers
interpret and respond to social issues. To advocate
effectively for policies that will improve childhood
nutrition, advocates must be able to articulate a clear
message that resonates with specific audiences. They
have to make their case well, and make it publicly. This
means they must understand the current public conversation
regarding nutrition policy and how it is being framed in the
news. Similarly, if journalists are going to tell the story
of childhood nutrition as it is debated by different stakeholders,
they should know what parts of that discussion are being emphasized
and which, if any, are being neglected.
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