Local Wellness Policy

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Local Wellness Policy

• What are the requirements for Missouri schools?

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Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act
2004S. 2507

• PL 108-265
• http//frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi
  ?dbname108_cong_public_lawsdocidfpubl265.108.p
  df

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Signed into law June 30, 2004

• Section 120. Fresh fruit and vegetable program
• Section 122. Access to local foods and school
  gardens
• Section 204. Local wellness policy
• Section 205. Team nutrition network
• Section 401. Sense of Congress regarding efforts
  to prevent and reduce childhood obesity

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Section 120. Fresh fruit and vegetable program

• 8 grants to make fresh fruits and vegetables
  available to students during the school day
• In schools with no less than 50 students
  eligible for free and reduced meals
• Priority to schools that partner with non-Federal
  resources

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Section 122. Access to local foods and school
gardens

• Competitive matching grants to schools and
  nonprofits to
• Promote farm-to-cafeteria activities, including
  school gardens
• Procure local foods for school meals
• Support nutrition education activities or
  curriculum involving children in agriculture
  education activities

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Section 205.Team nutrition network

• A statewide multidisciplinary program for
  children to promote healthy eating and physical
  activity based on scientifically valid
  information and sound educational, social, and
  marketing principles.

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Section 401. Sense of Congress regarding efforts
to prevent reduce childhood obesity

• The State of Arkansas is commended for its
  leadership in combating childhood obesity and
  could serve as a model for States across the
  United States.

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Section 204. Local wellness policy

• 1. Includes goals for nutrition education,
  physical activity, and other school-based
  activities that are designed to promote student
  wellness in a manner that the LEA determines is
  appropriate.

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Local wellness policy

• 2. Includes nutrition guidelines selected by the
  LEA for all foods available on each school campus
  during the school day with the objectives of
  promoting student health and reducing childhood
  obesity.

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Local wellness policy

• 3. Guidelines for reimbursable school meals shall
  not be less restrictive than regulations and
  guidance issued by Secretary of Agriculture.

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Local wellness policy

• 4. Establishes a plan for measuring
  implementation of the policy. One person in
  school is designated with responsibility for
  ensuring compliance.

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Local wellness policy

• 5. Involves parents, students, representatives of
  the school food authority, the school board,
  school administrators and the public in the
  development of the school wellness policy.

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Due Date

• School boards must adopt the wellness policies by
  the first day of the 2006-2007 school year.

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On the web

• http//www.fns.usda.gov/tn/
• click on Local Wellness Policy
• or Healthy Schools

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Help! Ive never written policy.

• Policy Development Worksheet
• http//www.dhss.mo.gov/dnhs_pdfs/NPE_changingscene
  _policy_checklist.pdf

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Im concerned about teachers using candy as a
reward

• http//cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/constructive_r
  ewards.pdf

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School employees practice unhealthy habits in
front of children.

• Marketing to children

http//cspinet.org/marketingguidelines.pdf
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How can we change foods and beverages offered in
vending machines?

• Vending machine survey
• http//cspinet.org/schoolfood/index.html

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Move Beyond the Minimum!

• Wellness is more than good nutrition, more than
  physical activity, more than fitness, more than
  absence of disease
• Wellness is a focus on the whole child.