2014 Annual Conference Notes

Speaker Presentations 2014:

Handouts for Pre Conference Sessions One and Four: December 4, 2014

Training Tools for Healthy Schools
School Health Index: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide (SHI): The SHI can help schools assess the strengths and weaknesses of their health policies and programs and develop an action plan to improve them.
Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (PECAT): The PECAT can help schools and districts revise, select, or develop a quality physical education curriculum.
Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT): The HECAT can help schools and districts revise, select, or develop a quality health education curriculum.
School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: The School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity can help schools develop, implement, and evaluate healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices for students.
Constructive Classroom Rewards

Increasing Access to Drinking Water in Schools

CDC’s tool kit Increasing Access to Drinking Water in Schools [PDF - 150K] provides school health councils, nutrition services providers, principals, teachers, parents, and other school staff with information and tools to:

Meet free drinking water requirements in NSLP and SBP programs.
Help make clean, free drinking water readily available throughout multiple points in school settings.
Promote consumption of water as a healthy beverage.

The easy-to-use tool kit includes background information, needs assessment tools, implementation strategies, and evaluation guidance to provide students with access to drinking water as part of a healthy nutrition environment.

Weight of the Nation videos

https://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/films:

Introduction clip highlighting the issue of obesity in the US

Film 1: Consequences
Chapter 1 (Minute 13:45)
Length: approx. 3 minutes

The State of School Meals

Film 3: Children in Crisis
Chapter 4 (Minute 30:08)
Length: approx. 11 minutes

PE and Physical Inactivity in Kids

Film 3: Children in Crisis
Chapter 6 (Minute 46:26)
Length: approx. 15 minutes

Request a screening kit

Weight of the Nation for Kids Films

Free image library and video library from Yale Rudd Center

Smart Snacks in Schools Overview and Resources

Success Story Resources

“Smart Snacks in Schools” Resource List

AASA – The School Superintendents Association

Smart Snacks – Fast Facts – Provides a summary of the competitive foods and beverage requirements.
AASA’s Healthy Snacks and Beverages Talking Points
AASA’s Healthy School Snacks and Beverages Policy Initiative Peer-to-Peer Innovation Network

Alliance for a Healthier Generation

9-Step Guide to Make Smart Snacks Implementation a Success
Alternative Fundraising Guide and Ideas
Healthy Celebration Resources and Ideas
Healthy Non-Food Rewards Ideas
In Your State – Click on your state to take a look at childhood obesity and what’s being done to support children’s health and wellness.
Healthy Schools Program Online Assessment Tool and Action Plan – Register your school with the Alliance’s Healthy Schools Program. See how your school is stacking up against Smart Snacks standards and track your healthy accomplishments!
Powerpoint presentations

Smart Snacks – A little presentation (click to download) – A high-level overview of the Smart Snacks nutrition standards.
Smart Snacks – Just enough presentation – Provides l information on background, and delves deeper into competitive food and beverages standards.
Smart Snacks – A Lot presentation – A detailed presentation of the nutrition standards.

Bridging the Gap

California Project LEAN

Competitive foods and beverages success stories

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Competitive Foods and Beverages in US Schools: A State Policy Analysis
Tools for School Nutrition Service Personnel, including example lists of snacks meeting and not meeting IOM standards
MAPPS framework (Media, Access, Point of Decision, Pricing and Support) can help organize policy decisions and implementation strategies
Implementing Strong Nutrition Standards for Schools: Financial Implications

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Change Lab Solutions

Cornell Food and Brand Lab

Offering Healthy Foods at High School Concession Stands – Research findings from a pilot study offering healthy foods at high school concession stands.

Food Research and Action Center

Webinar: USDA’s Smart Snacks in School Rule: What You Need to Know

Healthy Eating Research

Issue Brief: Influence of Competitive Food and Beverage Policies in Children’s Diets and Childhood Obesity

Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago and Illinois Public Health Institute

Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line: Case studies of schools successfully implementing strong nutrition standards for competitive foods and beverages

Leadership for Healthy Communities

Rural Childhood Obesity Prevention Toolkit – Includes some information around foods and beverages in schools, including marketing.

Mission Readiness

Report Retreat is Not an Option – This report includes new and previously unreported state-by-state data from the Department of Defense detailing the number of young adults who are likely to be ineligible for military duty. Obesity has become the leading medical cause.

National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity

National Association of State Boards of Education

State School Health Policy Database lists state-by-state policies related to competitive food policy and includes state fundraising exemption information.

National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity

District Policy Establishing a Healthy Vending Program, provides a model beverage vending agreement and fact sheet

Nemours

A Healthy Vending Guide – Provides rationale for healthy vending options, sample competitive food policies, marketing strategies

The Pew Charitable Trusts, Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project

The Trust for America’s Health

The State of Obesity – A report diving into child and adult obesity by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, age and severity.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service

Smart Snacks in Schools Flyer
Infographic: Smart Snacks in Schools
Fact Sheet: Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act School Meals Implementation
Issue Brief: Fundraisers
Healthy Fundraising – Links to healthy fundraising resources from across the country.
Blog: Creative Solutions to Ending School Food Waste
Infographic: Reducing Food Waste
USDA blogposts featuring Alliance for a Healthier Generation National Ambassadors and school leaders from Jackson-Madison County School System and Namaste Charter School who are lending their voices to talk about why healthy foods in schools are important and how they have been able to make it work.
HealthierUS School Challenge: Smarter Lunchrooms – With recently updated criteria to include Smart Snacks in Schools components.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service

Economic information bulletin: Nutrition Standards for Competitive Foods in Schools

Voices for Healthy Kids

Click here to request the Healthy Kids Competitive Foods Toolkit: Make Food Choices an Easy ‘A”

Additional Background Resources on Improving the Nutritional Quality of Foods and Beverages Sold in Schools

The School Health Index for Physical Activity and Healthy Eating: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Liquid Candy: How Soft Drinks are Harming Americans' Health (Source: CSPI)
Halting the Obesity Epidemic: A Public Health Policy Approach (Source: Public Health Reports)