Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention Toolkit
Resources for School

Action For Healthy Kids
This is a nationwide initiative dedicated to improving the health and educational performance of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools. Included in this site are links on how to take action, tools for action, and success stories about what's working at the school and community levels.


Healthy Kids Learn Better (HKLB)
The Healthy Kids Learn Better Partnership is an Oregon statewide effort to help local schools and communities form partnerships and reduce physical, social, and emotional barriers to learning. It begins with a local HKLB Team, and reaches kids through the eight components of coordinated school health. The HKLB Toolkit is available to download.


The Healthy School Meals Resource System
Provides information about Team Nutrition, educational resources, recipes, food safety, and promotes healthy eating and physical activity.


Kids Walk-to-School
A community-based program that aims to increase opportunities for daily physical activity by encouraging children to walk to and from school in groups accompanied by adults.


Model School Wellness Policies
The U.S. Congress established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally-funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2006-2007 school year. This link will take you to model school wellness policies that were developed by a work group that the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity convened. There are also additional resources listed on the website.

Farm to School
The Farm to School movement is a partnership between local farmers and schools to help provide fresh food to school children while helping small farmers.

School Foods Tool Kit
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has developed a new "School Foods Tool Kit" to help parents, health professionals, community groups, teachers, and school administrators to improve the nutritional quality of the meals, snacks, and drinks available to students. The kit includes model policies, fact sheets, advice about how to influence school decision makers and build support for change, and sample letters, flyers, and other model materials.


The Walking School Bus
This program is based in the United Kingdom but has information about the benefits of a walking school bus program and how to set one up in a community.


What's New, Team Nutrition
Find Making It Happen, which tells the stories of 32 schools and districts that have implemented innovative approaches to improve the nutritional quality of foods and beverages being offered and sold at school. Also find Local Wellness Policy, which is a requirement of local education agencies participating in USDA school meal programs.