Part of the SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions Toolkit.* A multi-component, school- based intervention. Four components work together to sustain positive health outcomes: 1) Nutrition education and promotion, 2) Family and community partnerships, 3) Foods available on the school campus with an emphasis on regional agriculture, 4) School wellness policies. Elements Include: nutrition education, gardens, cooking demos, family newsletters, salad bars, school-based wellness committees, school-wide health fairs.
* SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions: An Obesity Prevention Toolkit for States is a compilation of interventions. The toolkit was developed by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, The Association of SNAP-Ed Nutrition Education Administrators (ASNNA), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Training and Research Translation (Center TRT), and the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), a partnership between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the USDA. It is designed and updated to help state SNAP-Ed administrative and implementing agencies identify evidence-based obesity prevention programs and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) strategies and interventions to include in their SNAP-Ed