Creating Healthy Spaces
Eat Smart Move More North Carolina’s Bring Fresh Produce to Your Setting “is a planning and resource guide for anyone who would like to have fruits and vegetables, especially locally grown, available for purchase in their worksites, place of worship or neighborhood or at any gathering place through a partnership with a produce vendor.
Michigan State University Extension’s guide for low and zero cost alternatives to using food as a reward.
This fact sheet from the Center for Science in the Public Interest address the research around using food and physical activity as forms of rewards or punishments. The guide also provides examples of beneficial rewards for children that are also inexpensive.
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s 5 steps for celebrating in a healthy way at your school or worksite. This also includes non-food celebration ideas as well as healthy snack and beverage ideas.
Alberta Centre for Active Living’s Challenges and Competitions report for decreasing sedentary behavior in the workplace. This report characterizes effective challenges and competitions, while providing resources to ensure continued success.
In this guide, Kaiser Permanente’s Thriving Schools partnership outlines the steps needed to create a teacher and staff lounge that promotes stress reduction, increases engagement and improves overall health.
The Virginia Department of Health’s toolkit is designed to help employers establishes a comprehensive, 100 percent tobacco free environment that will (1) provide a safe and healthy environment for employees and management, (2) protect all employees from exposure to second and third-hand smoke and (3) provide cessation support to smokers who want to quit smoking or using tobacco. This toolkit also comes with free technical assistance from a Tobacco Use Control Coordinator near you.
Centers for Disease Control and Preventions web-based guide identifying and defining the effective characteristics of an effective health education curriculum.
“The National Health Education Standards (NHES) were developed to establish, promote and support health enhancing behaviors for all students in all grade levels…The NHES provide a framework for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in designing or selecting curricula, allocation instructional resources and assessing student achievement and progress.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s September 2011 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report outlines the 9 guidelines for promoting healthy eating and physical activity in schools. To see a summary for the guidelines, see Appendix A (pg. 72-73).
School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
The Walk to Jerusalem and The Walk to Bethlehem are walking programs “developed by the St. John Providence Health System parish nursing and designed to increase the physical, spiritual and emotional health of participants.”
Part of Eat Smart Move More North Carolina, this planning and resource guide is focused towards church and community health leaders. It describes common health issues of African Americans, examines why church-based programs and effective in improving health and provides steps that church can take to address healthy eating and physical activity.
In 2011 the National AfterSchool Association adopted standards for healthy eating and physical activity for out-of school time. This 2015 guide outlines these standards and provides best practices for implementation.
“The focus of this America After 3PM special report, “Kids on the Move: Afterschool Programs Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity,” is on the role that afterschool programs are playing to support the health and wellness of their students.” This report covers parents’ expectations, satisfaction and opportunities to improve afterschool programs’ nutritional and physical activity offerings.
Kids on the Move: Afterschool Programs Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
