Local Wellness Policy
In June 2004, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act was signed into law, making it mandatory for all local education agencies (school districts) participating in USDA's school meals program to create a local wellness policy by July 1, 2006. Click here for policy requirements (law).
- Local Wellness Policies from Michigan School Districts. Click here to see samples of completed Local Wellness Policies from Michigan schools. Michigan Team Nutrition is providing these policies for your information only. Providing this information does not imply endorsement by Michigan Team Nutrition.
- Download the Michigan Model Local Wellness Policy and use it to guide in the development of your policy.
- AFHK's Online Wellness Policy - Action for Healthy Kids, with input from
Partner Steering Committee organizations and AFHK Team members, has an online
Wellness Policy Tool to provide enhanced assistance to school districts,
schools, parents, teachers, and students to build and implement meaningful
wellness policies. The Wellness Policy Tool provides guidance and information
for the ongoing process of developing, implementing and evaluating Wellness
Policies. It provides practical advice, shares stories from real people
working to implement Wellness Policies in their school districts, and addresses
specific challenges faced by schools across the nation.
Visit the new and improved Wellness Policy Tool at http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/wellnesstool/index.html. - For ideas on where to start after downloading the policy, click here for the Local Wellness Policy Training Slides by Dayle Hayes, M.S., RD or the Model Local Wellness Policy Next Steps handout.
- For access to a clearing house of information on the components that should be considered when establishing a school wellness policy click here. www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Healthy/wellnesspolicy.html
- Use the Michigan Action for Healthy Kids Healthy School Toolkit - Your Guide to Action for help in developing and implementing your policy.
- The Healthy School Action Tool (HSAT) is a Michigan-specific assessment for individual school buildings to assess their current nutrition, physical education/activity and tobacco environment. This tool may be helpful when writing your local wellness policy. Click here for more information on HSAT, www.mihealthtools.org/schools
- School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Students. The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) developed a resource for assisting school districts with the development and implementation of wellness policies and, in particular, the special nutrition concerns of low-income students. Visit http://www.frac.org/pdf/wellness_guide2006.pdf to download the report.
- Need help implementing your Local Wellness Policy? Michigan Team Nutrition Partners have created a list of resources to help districts implement their LWPs. Click here to see resources sorted by LWP topic.
School Policies
The following are Michigan-specific policies passed by the State of Michigan Board of Education:
State School Board Policy on Healthy Food and Beverages
State School Board Policy on Quality PE
State School Board Policy on Coordinated
School Health Programs
