Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Toolkit
A Toolkit for Reaching and Impacting Youth
The Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition guide is designed to help public health programs use a Policy, Systems, and Environmental change approach to increasing physical activity and consumption of healthy food among children and youth, from birth to age 18. It provides guidance and tools to establish and enhance wellness policies at early care and education sites, strengthen or initiate school wellness policies, and prepare to facilitate youth-led participatory research projects.
| Provides resources for helping early care and education sites and organizations to develop or enhance wellness policies.
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| Explains the processes for establishing or expanding, then implementing and measuring, wellness policies in K–5 schools and districts.
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| Provides resources for understanding and preparing to conduct nutrition– and physical activity–focused Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) projects with older children.
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The Policy Packet outlines effective policies that promote healthy eating and drinking. It highlights the key features and settings for early care and education and school wellness policies, among others. It also lists recommended model policies.
Project Tools
An editable document with sample nutrition policies for early care and education sites. The document has simple, nontechnical language and is based on policies from the California Department of Public Health. Public health practitioners and ECE providers can use it as a starting point for customized nutrition policies.
An editable document with sample physical policies for early care and education sites. The document has simple, nontechnical language and is based on policies from the California Department of Public Health. Public health practitioners and ECE providers can use it as a starting point for customized nutrition policies.
An Excel spreadsheet containing a fillable table. It can be used to list wellness achievements, and plan how to publicize them to the school community, and track progress toward completion.
An Excel spreadsheet containing a fillable table. It can be used to identify people and organizations who can help start or sustain a YPAR project.
An Excel spreadsheet containing a fillable table. YPAR project participants can use it to brainstorm possible issues to address in their research.