Parents Advocating for School Wellness

Action for Healthy Kids

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.

This 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.  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;
• Train parents on the importance of good nutrition and physical activity;
• Provide specific ways parents can work effectively with schools to promote wellness; 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.

Download Materials

The following sections of the Parents Advocating for School Wellness toolkit can be downloaded separately.

• Complete Kit
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Tools for Program Organizers and Trainers
• Handouts for Parent Advocates

The following customizable materials from the 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).

Outreach poster

• 11 x 17 poster
• 11 x 17 poster (blank)
• 17 x 22 poster
• 17 x 22 poster (blank)
• 34 x 44 poster
• 34 x 44 poster (blank)

School Wellness Flyer and Local Advocacy Resources

• Side A
• Side B

Informational Brochure for Local Residents

• inside page (color version)
• outside page (color version)
• inside page (black & white version)
• outside page (black & white version)

Letterhead

• Template letterhead