Family-School-Community Partnerships

Parents Advocating for School Wellness
Creating healthier schools requires the engagement and commitment of numerous stakeholders, especially in underserved communities where multiple challenges confront millions of children and families every day. Recognizing parents as a largely untapped force for change in school wellness, Action for Healthy Kids, in collaboration with MEE Productions, has produced a Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit.

The toolkit is designed to help Action for Healthy Kids Teams and other school wellness advocates unlock the potential of parents as change agents and engage them as partners in support of healthier schools for their children. The Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit includes materials to help motivate and assist parents - particularly in urban communities - to move from awareness and caring to hands-on advocacy. This kit will help users:
  • Understand how to cultivate parents as school wellness advocates, and how to connect with them and communicate effectively;
  • Recruit parent advocates through community organizations and schools as well as by hosting a community informational event;
  • Train parents on the importance of good nutrition and physical activity;
  • Provide specific suggestions for how parents can work effectively with schools to promote wellness (based on successes of Action for Healthy Kids Teams); and
  • Connect with community partners and schools.
Through this toolkit, parents and other caring adults can become better informed about the importance of school wellness and be motivated to promote school wellness in their local school and community. The end goal: mobilizing family-school-community partnerships to make positive contributions to the health of students and schools.

Download Materials
Click here to download a complete Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit.

The following sections of the Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit can be downloaded separately:
The following customizable materials of the Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit can be downloaded separately (blank posters have a box at the bottom that can be customized by inserting a meeting date, location and time, or other message):