Successful Students Eat Smart and Move More Provides Tools for Advocating for Local Wellness Policies
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The N.C. Division of Public Health launched a program to help school administrators and parents advocate for the implementation of wellness policies in local schools. Successful Students Eat Smart and Move More is a social marketing intervention intended to raise awareness and support of school wellness polices. The goal is to ensure that these policies are implemented, monitored and evaluated to ensure they are meeting the needs of the schools, staff and students.
Successful Students Eat Smart and Move More contains resources available to PTAs, school board members, principals and assistant principals, and parents who are interested in local wellness policies. An advocacy toolkit, informational brochure and a PowerPoint presentation are currently available at www.EatSmartMoveMore.com. A community relations and media toolkit will be added at a later date.
This intervention is being modeled after California Project LEAN’s Successful Students program.