• Michigan State Board of Education Policy on Coordinated School Health Programs to Support Academic Achievement and Healthy Schools - adopted 9/2003: This policy affirms that schools can achieve their primary mission of education only if students and staff are physically, mentally, and socially healthy. The Board recommends that: districts develop local coordinated school health programs and school health councils to make recommendations to the school board; schools develop school health teams representing staff, families, students, and the community in each building; and the district designates a school health program coordinator.
  Coordinated School Health Programs Policy

• The Role of Michigan Schools in Promoting Healthy Weight Consensus Paper: If your school is trying to form a Coordinated School Health Team (pg 17, figure 11), this resource will be a good start. This consensus paper will be very helpful in clarifying the importance of the assessment process to create healthier schools. It also contains valuable resources that relate to healthy environments in Michigan schools.
  Promoting Healthy Weight Consensus Paper

• Promoting Healthy Youth, Schools and Communities: A Guide to Community-School Health Councils, American Cancer Society: This guide provides a practical approach to planning, developing, maintaining, and evaluating school health councils/Coordinated School Health Teams. Handouts, checklists, forms and additional resources are included.
  Guide To Community School Health Councils

• Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT): The Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT) are Michigan's preferred assessment tools for schools. The Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT) help schools plan and make changes that make it easier for students to make healthy food choices, be more physically active and choose a tobacco free lifestyle. Completing the Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT) enables your school to identify strengths, areas of need and to develop a realistic action plan for positive change. The Healthy School Action Tools (HSAT) provide structure and guidance to the process of improving a school's health environment even for those schools that have already started to make changes in a less formal way.
  www.mihealthtools.org/hsat

• Healthy School Report Card (HSRC): (An Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Action Tool) The Healthy School Report Card (HSRC) component of the action tool is based on research, best practices, and practical information related to healthy school environments. Data collected from the HSRC can help the school community address its needs in a prioritized fashion through its school improvement plan, local wellness policy, or other systemic strategies, thus sustaining attention to supports for student success. Research and development support for the Healthy School Report Card was provided through a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
  Healthy School Report Card

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Section 2: Policies

• Michigan State Board of Education Policy on Quality Physical Education - adopted 9/2003: This policy affirms that quality physical education programs play a unique role of educating students and in acquiring their skills so that they may lead physically active lives. Key components include: curriculum, instruction and assessment; certified teachers; instruction of 150 minutes per week for elementary students and 225 minutes per week for middle school and high school students.
  Quality Physical Education Policy

• Michigan State Board of Education Policy on Healthy Food and Beverages: This policy recommends that schools offer and promote healthful food choices in venues outside federally regulated child nutrition programs (including but not limited to: school social events, school meetings, vending machines, classroom parties, school celebrations, fundraising, athletic concessions, etc.). An online toolkit that provides a resource to help schools implement the policy is available at:
  Healthy Food and Beverages Toolkit (see page 3 for the policy).

• Alternatives to Using Food as a Reward: Food is often used to reward good behavior. Unfortunately, the reward often undermines nutrition education and encourages over consumption of foods high in fat or sugar. Use this link to find alternative reward suggestions that not only encourage positive behavior in the classroom, but also in the lunchroom as well.
  Alternatives to Food as a Reward

• School Store Toolkit: For a toolkit that guides you through key concepts and considerations necessary to make positive changes in the school store, go to
  School Store Toolkit

• Establishing Policies For Healthier School Environments: Refer to the following two online information sources for guidelines on establishing effective policies:

  Fit, Healthy, Ready to Learn: This resource is designed to help state and local decision makers establish effective policies that promote high academic achievement and lifelong healthy habits.
  Fit, Healthy and Ready to Learn

  USDA School Wellness: This website serves as a clearinghouse of information on the components that should be considered when establishing a school wellness policy.
  School Wellness Policies

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Section 3: Physical Activity & Physical Education

Michigan Dept. of Education Physical Activity Web Page: A wide variety of physical education news and resources can be found at this web site. Check this site often for up-to-date information and useful links. Michigan Physical Education Web Site

• Certification: The State of Michigan requires all employees in an elementary or secondary who have instructional responsibilities to hold a certificate, permit or vocational authorization valid for the position to which he/she is assigned. The Michigan Department of Education has a document entitled "Quality Teachers of Physical Education" to support this law; click the link to access this document:
  Qualified Teachers of Physical Education

• Best Practice Methods: A quality physical education program encompasses best practices that include specific characteristics in: curriculum, instruction and assessment, and opportunity to learn. For a list of the characteristics, please see the Michigan State Board of Education's Policy on Quality Physical Education at:
  Quality Physical Education

• Michigan Physical Education Standards/Benchmarks: Physical education curriculum should be a sequential, developmentally appropriate K-12 program with the goal of providing students with the knowledge, skills, fitness, and attitudes necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle. The State of Michigan has developed content standards, benchmarks and grade level content expectations for physical education to assist in meeting this goal. To review, these standards, visit:
  Physical Education Standards

• Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum (EPEC): This curriculum is changing the way educators think about physical education. Built around NASPE content standards and strong on assessment, EPEC is being used by thousands of teachers to strengthen physical education, and its reputation, in their communities.
  Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum

• Walk-to-School Day: The Governor's Council on Physical Fitness is the State’s organizer for Michigan's observance of "Walk-to-School Day," a national program started by Partnership for a Walkable America (Website: www.walktoschool-usa.org). Michigan schools that plan to participate in "Walk-to-School Day" should register with the Governor’s Council to receive walkability surveys, parent brochures, stickers for kids and more. To register or to learn more, go to Walk to School Day

• Jump Rope For Heart: Jump Rope For Heart promotes the value of physical activity to elementary school children while showing them they can contribute to their community's welfare. By jumping rope and securing sponsors, students raise money for the fight against heart disease and stroke, while learning about the seriousness of heart disease and stroke, the lifelong benefits of physical activity and the importance of living a heart-healthy lifestyle.
  Jump Rope for Heart

• Fun Run: Learn how to set up a 5K Fun Run for kids and families at
  Fun Runs

• All Children Exercising Simultaneously (ACES): Each year, on the first Wednesday in May, millions of children all over the world will be exercising together. The purpose of ACES Day is to reinforce the importance of physical activity for health. In Michigan, schools can register for ACES with the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness. Registered schools receive a free packet that includes: ACES themes and ideas, publicity and promotion materials, nutrition information, and a summary of other programs similar to ACES that promote physical activity and nutrition. Also included is a family educational brochure as well as ACES stickers for all participants. Registration is recommended about a month before the event (in April); but, all registrations are accepted through ACES day. For information on this year’s ACES Day (and associated dates), please go to
  All Children Exercising Simultaneously

• Walking and Mileage Clubs: Low cost, easy to implement school walking programs are available from Fitness Finders at: Fitness Finders.

• Michigan Model® for Comprehensive School Health Education: Michigan’s model health curriculum facilitates interdisciplinary learning through lessons that integrate health education with core academic subjects. Teacher training ensures that students and their schools, as a whole, get maximum benefits from this research-based program. The benefits of physical activity and ways to be physically active are taught each year in kindergarten through sixth grade. It’s Time to Move! is designed for grades 7-8 and in Staying Physically Active-For Life for grades 9-12.
  Michigan Model for School Health Education.

• NASPE Guidelines for After School Physical Activity and Intramural Sport Programs: The purpose of these guidelines is to provide teachers, school activity directors and administrators and program leaders with basic information for planning and implementing physical activity and intramural programming for children in grades K-12.
  Intramural Guidelines

• Safe Routes to School Program: This national movement makes it safe, convenient and fun for children to bicycle and walk to school. When routes are safe, walking or biking to and from school is an easy way to get the regular physical activity children need to succeed.
  Safe Routes to School

• Walkability Check List: How walkable is your community? This useful tool can help find the answer. Take a walk and use this checklist to decide if your neighborhood is a friendly place to walk.
  Walking Checklist

• Educational Messages on Physical Activity: Refer to the following online resources for ways to promote physical activity by providing education messages.

  VERB-VERB^TM It’s what you do: Verb is a national, multicultural, social marketing campaign coordinated by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that encourages young people, ages 9-13 (tweens), to be physically active every day. There are VERB materials for organizations that promote the importance of regular physical activity for tweens, such as through communication, advocacy, policy change, and training of program providers.
  Youth Campaign

  DHHS Small Steps: This government-sponsored website frequently provides tips on eating better and being more active. Messages are archived and can be used by schools as daily or weekly messages.
  Small Steps

  Team Nutrition: The USDA Team Nutrition program has a variety of resources to promote both healthy eating and physical activity e.g. the poster/flyer Enjoy Moving.
  Team Nutrition

• Staff Wellness Physical Activity Programs Refer to the following online resources for ways to promote physical activity among school staff.

  Michigan on the Move: Michigan On the Move is a grassroots initiative, working to reduce the rates of obesity and its associated health risks in our state. It has a simple message: prevent weight gain by moving more and eating less. You can take fun and easy steps to better your health! Make two small daily changes - take 2000 more steps (the equivalent of about one mile) and eat 100 fewer calories.
  Michigan on the Move

  Everyday Choices: The American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association have joined together in a historic collaboration to encourage the prevention and early detection of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. "Everyday Choices For A Healthier Life" is a joint initiative; one of the goals is to stimulate improvements in disease prevention and early detection by increasing public awareness about healthy lifestyles, including increased physical activity.
  Everyday Choices

  Heart At Work: The American Heart Association's flexible, effective, affordable health promotion program is available online. It provides what you need to inform and motivate employees to make regular physical activity a part of their lives. The website offers a variety of activities: a challenge, a partner or self-paced program, an employee fitness test, a walking seminar and a back-to-the-basics approach to physical activity. These activities are fun and beneficial, because they'll get employees moving toward better health!
  Heart At Work

  Active For Life: This 10-week program encourages employees to be more active on a regular basis by setting individual goals and forming teams for motivation and support. Since everyone’s different, participants set their own goals based on how active they are and how active they want to be. Personal goals can be moderate (like walking or yard work or taking the stairs) to more intense (like running or tennis). Throughout the ten weeks, activities and workshops, ranging from group walks to workshops on personal safety and health, help inform and motivate participants.
  Active for Life

  Workplace Solutions: This new American Cancer Society worksite wellness program includes a monthly wellness newsletter, Active For Life activity program, Meeting Well planning tool, interactive health website for employees, Tobacco Cessation support and much more. Contact your local ACS office to learn more. 1-800-ACS-2345.
  Workplace Solutions

  Meeting Well: Planning a menu for your work event? Before you pick up that box of doughnuts, consider using Meeting Well, a set of simple tools for planning healthy meetings and events. Meeting Well provides tools, including a handy guidebook, that make it easy and fun to choose healthy foods and activities - even at work.
  Meeting Well

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Section 4: Healthy Eating & Nutrition Education

• United Dairy Industry of Michigan (UDIM): This web site provides dairy product information, recipes, and nutrition education resources for schools, health professionals, the media, and consumers. School breakfast information is also included.
  UDIM

• Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value: USDA regulates the foods served in competition with reimbursable school meals. Foods that meet this definition are soda water, water ices, chewing gum and certain candies. For more complete information please go to:
  Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value

• National School Lunch Program: This is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit, private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day.
  School Lunch Program

• Reimbursable School Lunch: These are meals, sold to students meeting federal household income requirements, which are reimbursed by the federal government. Schools are required to serve meals at no charge to children whose household income is at or below 130 percent of the Federal poverty guideline. Children are entitled to pay a reduced price if their household income is above 130 percent but at or below 185 percent of these guidelines. Children are automatically eligible for free school meals if their household receives food stamps, benefits under the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations or, in most cases, benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. For more information go to:
  Reimbursable School Lunch

• Healthy School Meals Resource System: The Healthy School Meals Resource System (HSMRS) provides information to people working in USDA's Child Nutrition Programs.
  Healthy School Meals

• Michigan State Board of Education Policy on Healthy Food and Beverages: This policy recommends that schools offer and promote healthful food choices in venues outside federally regulated child nutrition programs (including but not limited to: school social events, school meetings, vending machines, classroom parties, school celebrations, fundraising, athletic concessions etc.). Healthy food and beverages are defined as single-serving-size snacks (except for nuts, seeds, and cheese) and should have no more than 6 grams of fat and meet at least two of the following three criteria:
  1. Contain 300 or fewer calories,
  2. One or more grams of fiber
  3. At least 10% of Calcium, Iron, Vitamin A or Vitamin C

  To determine if a food or beverage meets the criteria, use the Nutrition Facts label on the package. For a list of foods and beverages meeting this criteria visit:
  Healthy Foods and Beverages List or for a copy of the toolkit, which contains the policy go to:
  Healthy Foods and Beverages Toolkit.

• Fruit and Vegetable Tasting: Each month a fruit and vegetable are featured with nutritional information, tips on how to prepare them and great tasting recipes.
  Fruit and Vegetables of the Month

• Fruits and Vegetables Galore: Helping Kids Eat More is a tool for school foodservice professionals packed with tips on planning, purchasing, protecting, preparing, presenting and promoting fruits and vegetables. Use Fruits & Vegetables Galore to help rejuvenate the cafeteria with colorful fruits and vegetables.
  Fruits and Vegetables Galore

• Nutrition Health Fair: Hold a nutrition fair to educate students and parents, and generate interest in healthy eating. Team Nutrition’s Popular Team Nutrition Events Book provides schools with ideas for a variety of school and community-wide events including planning a fair.
  Popular Team Nutrition Events

• Generation Fit: Students ages 11 to 18 take part in community service projects that promote more physical activity and healthier eating among their friends and families, and in their schools and communities. Projects include:
  • Food for Thought: Trying New Recipes in Your Cafeteria
  • Message Magic: Selling Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
  • Lending a Helping Hand: Planning Meals for Those in Need
  • Team Up for Good Health: Improving Habits with a Partner
  • Let’s Get Moving: Making Physical Activity a Priority in Our Community
  The young activists themselves come away better educated about good nutrition and the need to stay physically active.
  Generation Fit

• School Milk Promotion ? For the latest information on what dairy can do for you - whether you are looking for tips on how to incorporate dairy into your diet or would like to know more about the latest milk promotions- you'll find it at the National Dairy Council website.
  National Dairy Council Tips
  National Dairy Council Nutrition Explorations

• Breakfast Campaign: Refer to the following online sources for information on breakfast programs.
  
  
  Eat Healthy. Eat Breakfast: Visit this site for a behavior change campaign kit.
  Breakfast Campaign Kit
  

  Alternative Methods to Serving Breakfast:  Visit USDA’s Discover School Breakfast Toolkit to learn more about school breakfast and check out the resource section for files that can be customized for your school buildings.
  Discover School Breakfast
  
  Project PA:  Project PA is committed to promoting school breakfast programs and offers resources to schools to facilitate this.
  Project PA

• Fruits and Veggies-More Matters Month: Get ready to celebrate colorful fruits and vegetables during National Fruits and Veggies-More Matters in September. Each year during the month of September, the CDC, the National Cancer Institute, USDA, and other partners, conduct a nationwide effort to promote eating more fruits and vegetables daily for better health.
  Fruits and Veggies-More Matters
  
  
• Nutrition Activities: For creative ideas for nutrition activities and events, visit these websites
  Nutrition Activities
  Nutrition Event Ideas

• National Nutrition Month®: This is a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. NNM also promotes ADA and its members to the public and the media as the most valuable and credible source of timely, scientifically based food and nutrition information.
  National Nutrition Month

• Educational Messages on Healthy Eating: Refer to the following online resources for ways to promote healthy eating by providing educational messages.

  Team Nutrition: The USDA Team Nutrition program has a variety of resources to promote both healthy eating and physical activity e.g. the posters MyPyramid for Kids; How Much Do You Eat; and Read It Before You Eat It.
  Team Nutrition

  Sense-ational Food Poster: Brought to you by Team Nutrition, originally from the Food Works Scholastic Kit (Grades 3-5), the flip-side of this poster includes reproducible parent activity sheets for nutrition education in the home.
  Sense-ational Foods

  DHHS Small Steps: This government sponsored website provides frequent tips on eating better and getting more active. Messages are archived and can be used by schools as daily or weekly messages.
  Small Steps

• Classroom Party Ideas: Tips and Tools to Help Implement Michigan’s Healthy Food and Beverages Policy  offers suggestions on ways to make parties fun and healthy. See pages 15-16 in Tips and Tools. Tips and Tools is one component of Michigan Action for Healthy Kids “Healthy School Toolkit.”
  Tips and Tools (then select Tips and Tools to Help Implement Michigan’s Healthy Food and Beverages Policy under Healthy Eating: Implementing an Action Plan.)

• Staff Wellness Healthy Eating/Healthy Weight Programs: Refer to the following online resources for ways to promote healthy eating/healthy weight among school staff.

  Heart Healthy Recipes: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's website offers a variety of appealing heart healthy recipes.
  Heart Healthy Recipes

  Everyday Choices: The American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association have joined together in a historic collaboration to encourage the prevention and early detection of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. One of the goals of this joint initiative is "Everyday Choices For A Healthier Life" and to stimulate improvements in disease prevention and early detection by increasing public awareness about healthy lifestyles, including better nutrition and healthier body weights.
  Everyday Choices

  Heart At Work: This online American Heart Association health promotion program is flexible, effective, and affordable. A high-saturated-fat, high-cholesterol diet raises the risk for heart disease by increasing blood cholesterol levels. Obesity is also a risk factor for heart disease. To reduce their risk, employees need to eat a balanced, low-fat diet and manage their weight appropriately. With this module, you can help them start or stay on the right path. A heart-healthy eating challenge, a nutrition seminar and a self-help activity focusing on weight management are some of the activities included here.
  Heart At Work

  Meeting Well: Planning a menu for your work event? Before you pick up that box of doughnuts, consider using Meeting Well, a set of simple tools for planning healthy meetings and events. Meeting Well provides tools, including a handy guidebook, that make it easy and fun to choose healthy foods and activities - even at work.
  Meeting Well

  Workplace Solutions: This new American Cancer Society worksite wellness program includes a monthly wellness newsletter, Active For Life activity program, Meeting Well planning tool, interactive health website for employees, Tobacco Cessation support and much more. Contact your local ACS office to learn more. 1-800-ACS-2345.
  Workplace Solutions
  

• Michigan Team Nutrition (TN): This national initiative is designed to motivate, encourage, and empower schools, families and the community to work together to continually improve school meals and to make food and physical activity choices for a healthy lifestyle.
  Michigan Team Nutrition
  
  
• Henry the Hand: Help children understand that cleanliness is important to good health. School aged children are able to be in charge of their own bodies. This resource supports the development of a greater awareness of their hands and what role our hands play in the spread of disease.
  Henry the Hand
  
  
• “Sink Those Germs”: Help promote hand washing with this hand washing with this bean bag activity and coloring sheets.
  Sink Those Germs
  
  
• 10 Quick & Quiet Steps to Hand Washing Success: This five-minute video features the creative work of School Nurse Janet Friederick who created a 10-step hand washing routine to teach children how to properly wash their hands.
  10 Handwashing Steps
  
  
• Scrub Club for Kids: This fun, interactive and educational web site teaches children the proper way to wash their hands. The site consists of a Webisode, interactive games, educational music, downloadable activities for kids, educational materials for teachers and program information for parents. Scrub Club is a partnership of NSF International and the Partnership for Food Safety Education.
  Scrub Club for Kids  
  
  
• Michigan Health Education Standards/Benchmarks: Health education curriculum should be a sequential, developmentally appropriate K-12 program with the goal of providing students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle. The State of Michigan has developed content standards, benchmarks and grade level content expectations for health education to assist in meeting this goal.
  Michigan Health Education Standards
  
  
• Michigan Model® for Comprehensive School Health Education: Michigan’s model health curriculum facilitates interdisciplinary learning through lessons that integrate health education with core academic subjects. Teacher training ensures that students and their schools, as a whole, get maximum benefits from this research-based program. The benefits of good nutrition and ways to make healthy food choices are taught each year in kindergarten through sixth grade. What’s Food Got to Do With It? is designed for grades 7-8 and Help Yourself to Good Nutrition for grades 9-12.
  Michigan Model for Health Education
  
  
• The Michigan School Breakfast Challenge was issued in May 2008 to all Local and Intermediate School Superintendents, Public School Academy Directors, Nonpublic School Administrators, and Residential Child Care Institutions.  Superintendents were challenged to increase school breakfast participation in their districts by 50%.  Research shows that students who eat breakfast exhibit improved learning, health, and classroom behavior.  For more information about the school breakfast challenge go to: 
  Michigan School Breakfast Challenge
  
  

   

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Section 5: Tobacco-Free Lifestyles

• Michigan State Board Policy on 24/7 Tobacco-Free Schools: This policy strongly encourages local school districts to pass policies that prohibit tobacco use 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and 365 days per year, so that students can learn and achieve in a healthy environment. Maintaining a school environment that is tobacco free, at all times, allows children to attend school and school events free from the effects of negative modeling and second-hand smoke. A 24/7 tobacco-free school environment supports efforts within a coordinated system that includes alternatives to suspension, safe and healthful physical activity, health education, and developmentally appropriate referral for cessation services.
  24/7 Tobacco Free School Policy

• Michigan Model® for Comprehensive School Health Education: Michigan’s model health curriculum facilitates interdisciplinary learning through lessons that integrate health education with core academic subjects. Teacher training ensures that students and their schools, as a whole, get maximum benefits from this research-based program. The reasons not to use tobacco and ways to refuse are taught each year in kindergarten through sixth grade. It’s No Mystery: Tobacco Is a Killer is designed for grades 7-8 and Teens Campaign Against Tobacco for grades 9-12.
  Michigan Model for Health Education

• How Schools Can Effectively Communicate a 24/7 Tobacco-Free Schools Policy: To download a handout about effectively communicating at tobacco-free school policy, go to
  Communicating a Tobacco Free School Policy

• Heart Power Curriculum: The American Heart Association’s website provides information on smoking prevention. This online program provides classroom curriculum for smoking prevention, secondhand smoke avoidance and smoking cessation. You can link to the American Heart Association’s Heart Power online program by visiting
  Heart Power.

• Educational Messages on Tobacco Free Lifestyles: Refer to the following online resources for ways to promote tobacco-free lifestyles by providing educational messages.

  Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS): The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.
  Tobacco Information and Prevention

• Tobacco-Free Michigan: Michigan’s main grassroots coalition is dedicated to the prevention of tobacco use. Visit the Tobacco-Free Michigan web site to learn about opportunities to fight tobacco use in Michigan.
  Tobacco Free Michigan.

• The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: CTFK is the nation’s leading tobacco-prevention organization devoted to children. Their web site offers the latest facts and statistics in tobacco use and also provides many opportunities for advocacy. The CTFK web site also has a section devoted to youth action and advocacy.
  Tobacco Free Kids.

• Freedom from Smoking: This program from the American Lung Association is a wonderful on-line resource. Access this and other American Lung Association resources by visiting
  American Lung Association.

• Staff Wellness Tobacco Use Cessation Programs: Refer to the following online resources for ways to help school staff kick the tobacco habit.

  Resources from the American Cancer Society: ACS provides a wealth of information and resources to help people quit tobacco products and to help them stay quit.
  American Cancer Society

  Improving Life One Breath At A Time: The American Lung Association fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.
  American Lung Association

  Healthy Workforce 2010: This is an essential health promotion sourcebook for employers, large and small. The sourcebook addresses forming a staff wellness team, promoting staff participation in health promotion programs or activities, budgeting for staff health promotion, surveying staff to identify interest in health screening, physical activity, healthy eating or tobacco cessation programs, providing incentives for staff to participate in such programs.
  Healthy Workforce 2010

  Heart At Work: This online American Heart Association health promotion program is flexible, effective, and affordable. To safeguard their lives, to protect their health and just to enjoy a better quality of life, your employees and their families deserve to be tobacco-free. These materials can inspire them to make the choice to start enjoying a smoke-free life. Clearing the air for better health starts at
  Heart At Work

  Great American Smokeout - Creating A Smoke-Free Workplace: The workplace is an ideal location to launch highly successful Great American Smokeout promotions. Because adults spend the majority of their day at work, the office is also an ideal place to help smokers, chewers, and dippers quit for good. With new legislation and public support of no smoking policies, Great American Smokeout is also an appropriate day to initiate new "No Smoking" policies in the workplace.
  Great American Smoke Out

  Workplace Solutions: This new American Cancer Society worksite wellness program includes a monthly wellness newsletter, Active For Life activity program, Meeting Well planning tool, interactive health website for employees, Tobacco Cessation support and much more. Contact your local ACS office to learn more. 1-800-ACS-2345.
  Workplace Solutions