Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories
Making It Happen! School Nutrition Success Stories shares stories from 32 schools and school districts that have made innovative changes to improve the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages offered and sold on school campuses. These success stories illustrate the wide variety of approaches used to improve student nutrition. The most consistent theme emerging from these case studies is that students will buy and consume healthful foods and beverages, and schools can make money from healthful options. Making It Happen! includes a variety of materials developed by some of the schools and contact information for each story. To learn more about this publication, read the Executive Summary.
Making it Happen! is a joint project of USDA's Team Nutrition and the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) and is supported by the Department of Education. It was undertaken as part of the HealthierUS initiative.
Printed: March 2005
Updated: Success Stories Contact List
Available: Upon request from Team Nutrition, using the
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Cover [250K]
Table of Contents [115K, p. 1-9]
Executive Summary [40k, p. 9-12]
Background Information [115K, p. 13-26]
Six Approaches to improving student nutrition:
- Establish nutrition standards for competitive foods [85K, p. 26-32]
Success Stories [100K, p. 33-50]
- Influence food and beverage contracts [70K, p. 51-54]
Success Stories [90K, p. 55-70]
- Make more healthful foods and beverages available [85K, p. 71-76]
Success Stories [220K, p. 77-112]
- Adopt marketing techniques [65K, p. 113-118]
Success Stories [165K, p. 119-144]
- Limit student access to competitive foods [90K, p. 145-148]
Success Stories [80K, p. 149-158]
- Use fundraising activities and rewards [60K, p. 159-162]
Success Stories [105K, p. 163-172]
References [35K, p. 173-178]
Quick Guide [30K, p. 179-184]
Support Materials
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