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Wellness: Implementation Tools and Resources
The following links provide topic specific resources for the Wellness Program.
- Action for Healthy Kids
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- Healthy Commodities (PDF, 848KB)
- Coordinated School Health
- Center for Disease Control
- Evaluation Wellness Policies (PDF, 703KB)
- TN Local Wellness Policy
Two new studies: local wellness policies could be strengthened
Two new reports indicate that the local wellness policies developed in response to the federal requirement in the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 could be strengthened, and also that implementation and evaluation of existing policies could be improved:- Local School Wellness Policies: How Are Schools Implementing the Congressional Mandate? (PDF), a new research brief released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, summarizes the evidence to date on the status of implementation of local wellness policies since the 2004 Congressional mandate.
- Local School Wellness Policies: Assessing School District Strategies for Improving Children’s Health, School Years 2006–07 and 2007–08 was released by Bridging the Gap, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is the most comprehensive ongoing study of local wellness policies that has ever been published.
Both reports indicate the quality of wellness policies vary greatly from district to district, and that implementation and evaluation are not strongly addressed. Additionally, both reports recommend allocating more resources for wellness policy implementation. To learn more about local wellness policies, access NSBA’s School Health Programs “Addressing Wellness Policies 101” packet.