Students Taking Charge November 21, 2009 FCCLA Cluster Meeting Louisville, Kentucky

Action for Healthy Kids

Access to healthy foods

Recess BEFORE lunch

Safe places to play

Daily Physical Education

Students Taking Charge Digital Media Contest

Round Robin on Healthy Schools Identify a timekeeper, writer, and reporter Each circle spends 2 minutes per card Pass to the next table ASAP Put a check mark next to other groups’ ideas that your table also supports

Personal policies I only go on Facebook after I finish my homework I never go to parties where they have alcohol I don’t text after the 20 th of the month

Family policies Curfew is on 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays No phone calls or reading books during dinner Friends are always welcome for holiday dinners

Business policies No shirt, no shoes, no service Ice cream orders will be repeated to make sure they are correct. No changes can be made after you receive your ice cream cone. Cones plus bowls cost extra! Items may only be returned for store credit.

School Policies?

Local Wellness Policy? (a) IN GENERAL - Not later than the first day of the school year beginning after June 30, 2006, each local education agency participating in a program authorized by the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C.1751 et seq.) or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C et seq.) shall establish a local school wellness policy for schools under the local educational agency that, at a minimum— 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 local educational agency determines is appropriate…

LWP in simple(r) words Every school district that participates in the federal school meals program must have a wellness policy. The school district policies must address nutrition, physical activity, and “student wellness.” Local school wellness policies should involve STUDENTS (and some other people) Since wellness policies are LOCAL, Congress has created the potential to engage the entire community in issues of nutrition and health.

Making Change Step by Step Event Program Practice Policy

Who are the people in your high school/district?

Know Your Audience What matters to them?What do they think of students? Where do they have power? How can they help you accomplish your change?

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