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• Form a Health Advisory Council to develop your local wellness policy.  Members may include parents, students, school committee members, administrators, food service members, and the public, similar to the Coordinated School Health Model.
• Include the wellness policy in the school district goals and improvement plan for each individual school. 
• Identify a district administrator who will ensure the school complies with the law and to help develop and implement the wellness policy.
• Identify a wellness coordinator in each building, or for your district, who can ensure that policies are developed and implemented.
• Conduct a needs assessment to identify needs and to set goals. The CDC  School Health Index is a helpful resource.
• Publicize and build widespread support for district policy in the local community.
• Establish a way to measure and monitor the progress of the wellness policy activities.
• Monitor the wellness policy and make changes as needed.

http://www.nasponline.org

http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/schools

http://www.AdolescentWellness.org

Health Services

http://www.nasn.org

http://www.msno.org/book.html

http://www.mass.gov/dph/

Health Promotion for Staff

http://www.mass.gov/dph/fch/dchp.htm

http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/WellnessResources.html#staffwellness

Health Education

http://www.doe.mass.edu/cnp/hprograms/cshp/

Healthy School Environment

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/

http://www.asthmaregionalcouncil.org/about/focus_schools.html

http://www.mphaweb.org/HealthySchools.htm

Family & Consumer Science Education

http://www.johnstalkerinstitute.org/

Goals for nutrition education, physical activity, and other wellness promotion activities

http://www.mascd.org/publications/Focus/FOCUS4-05.pdf

http://www.schoolwellnesspolicies.org/

http://www.ma-hperd.org/

Nutrition guidelines for all food available on each school campus

www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/nutrition/pdf/summary.pdf

Guidelines for school meals that are not less restrictive than USDA guidelines

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr4509.pdf

http://www.nasbe.org/healthy_schools/

www.teamnutrition.usda.gov

Plans to measure how well schools meet policy goals. Make at least one person in each school responsible for ensuring that the school develops and implements the Wellness Policy.

http://actionforhealthykids.org/pdf/report_small.pdf