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Part of the SNAP-Ed Strategies & Interventions Toolkit.*

Research-based lunchrooms that guide smarter choices. Collection of best practices for redesigning school lunchrooms with the goals to increase number of students that select fruit, select targeted entree, select vegetables, select reimbursable meals, and select white milk. Core values: low cost/no-cost solutions, lunchroom environment focus, promotion of healthful eating behaviors, and sustainability.

Developer
Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs.
Year
2009
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Funding Source
Unknown
Free Material
Yes
SNAP-Ed Toolkit Classification
Research-tested
SNAP-Ed Connection Comments

* 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 plans.

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