Effective School Health Advisory Councils: Moving from Policy to Action
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
This guide was developed by CDC’s partners at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to help school district personnel and others develop new SHCs or strengthen existing ones that can effectively support school health policies and programs.
The Local Process: How to Create and Implement a Local Wellness Policy
Team Nutrition (United States Department of Agriculture)
USDA resource page provides the 4 components of a local wellness policy, sample policies from other states and other resources. This webpage will continue to be updated.
Local Wellness: Frequently Asked Questions
Team Nutrition (United States Department of Agriculture)
Team Nutrition offers a complete source for answering any questions you may have regarding planning or implementing your local school wellness policy.
Local Wellness Policy Tool Kit
Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program Model Policy
This toolkit provides policy development teams with key information and resources. The kit includes a model policy that teams can use as a template in drafting their own policy. Also available is a Needs Assessment and Annual Evaluation Tool.
Missouri Eat Smart Guidelines, Grades Pre-K to 12
Missouri School Boards' Association
This site provides each of the guidelines and how they are graded within each category (i.e., minimum, intermediate and advanced).
Model Local Wellness Policy
Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program Model Policy
This model policy can be used as a template in writing local wellness policies as well as a bibliography of website resources for policy development. This is also available in Microsoft Word.
Rethinking School Lunch
Center for Ecoliteracy
This is a 175-page comprehensive resource guide for those individuals who deal with the school lunch issue in their district. This guide is of importance to school administrators, food service directors and personnel, food distributors, parents and others.
School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students
Food Research and Action Center
This guide is designed to help schools respond to the special nutrition concerns of low-income students in their wellness policies.
School Wellness Policy: Support Materials and Resources
Action for Healthy Kids & Iowa Association of School Boards
This document offers an eight-step process for developing school wellness policies and is adapted within the United States Department of Agriculture’s Team Nutrition website.
School Wellness Resource Guide
University of Kansas, KSDE, Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City
This is a comprehensive resource guide for Kansas and Missouri School Administrators and staff that provides a guideline for developing and implementing and refining a wellness policies in schools.
Wellness Policy Development Tool
Action for Healthy Kids
This tool allows you to select components of the policy you are working on and see specific language on these topics from policies that have been developed across the country.
Wellness Policy Tool: Getting Started
Action for Healthy Kids
"This tool is intended to help anyone involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating wellness policies by providing practical guidance and how-to information about the Wellness Policy process."
Wellness Policy Worksheet: Policy Development/Implementation
Wisconsin Association of School Boards
This site provides a worksheet to assist in the development and implementation of your local school wellness policy.
What is the Healthy School Program (HSP)?
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
"The Healthy Schools Program was launched in February, 2006 with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Healthy Schools Program provides real tools and solutions to help schools become healthier places for both students and teachers, without creating budget problems. The Program sets healthy standards, provides the tools to helps schools meet those standards, and rewards accomplishments and innovation."
