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Resources

	Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Planner Easy-to-implement activities, ideas and tools to help make wellness a way of life at your school.

	Making Wellness Happen: A Guide for School Leaders is designed to help HISD educational leaders translate the district’s wellness policy into steps their school(s) can take with the resources they need along the way.

School Wellness Policy Snapshot
Nutrition, Physical Activity and Schools’ Bottom Line
How Healthy Are Houston’s Students?
National School Lunch Program: Background, Trends, and Issues

	Wellness is a Team Effort (2-page flyer) offers tips for engaging the whole school community in your wellness activities.

Fuel Up to Play 60, from National Football League (NFL) and National Dairy Council, offers free school wellness awareness-building materials, school-improving action strategies, a online personal wellness tracking tool and opportunities for student and school rewards.

Texas Department of State Health Services provides valuable state-level reports and data as part of the Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention Program.

School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children, Report Brief from Institute of Medicine, October 2009

National Dairy Council, a leader in nutrition research and education since 1915, offers a wide variety of tools for schools, resources for health professionals, and nutrition and product information for the public.

Action for Healthy Kids offers a wealth of school wellness resources, including: Progress or Promises? What’s Working For and Against Healthy Schools The Learning Connection: The Value of Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity in Our Schools Call to Leadership: Elevating School Wellness to a Higher Priority

Childhood Obesity: It's Everyone's Business toolkit was developed for employers by the National Business Group on Health in response to the childhood obesity epidemic and its implications to the workforce. The toolkit features a range of options that can be easily implemented by employers related to benefits, employee education, on-site facilities and philanthropic opportunities.

Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit Created by CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health in collaboration with several partners, this toolkit helps adults encourage physical activity among youth to meet current national guidelines. The materials highlight specific strategies that schools, families and communities can use to support youth physical activity, and include fact sheets, a poster, user-guide and customizable PowerPoint presentations.

More school wellness resources.


	Videos

	Student Voices Listen as HISD students share their hopes and desires about creating a school environment that helps them be their best physically and nutritionally. (Short version: 3:25 minutes or Longer version: 11:55 minutes)


	Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Summit Highlights View highlights of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Summit, featuring the "whole system" of stakeholders. (5:38)


	"Did You Know?" video from Salud America looking at the extreme obesity issues facing Latino children and their families. (5:57)