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Tip Sheets for Schools: Implementing Healthier Standards for Competitive Foods

The Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Network of Public Health Institutes, and Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project to produce the five tip sheets sharing strategies for selling and serving healthier à la carte and snack foods and beverages in schools while still maintaining revenues. The tip sheets highlight key findings from the Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line study that profiles eight school districts from across the country.

As schools and districts work to implement USDA’s new Smart Snacks in School nutrition standards, these tip sheets share strategies from districts that have successfully implemented healthier competitive foods standards, sold more fruits and vegetables, taught nutrition to students, and made cafeterias more enticing for students.

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• Link to the Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line webpage: http://iphionline.org/center-for-policy-and-partnerships/controlling-junk-food-and-the-bottom-line/

• Register for the webinar: http://iphionline.org/register_for_smart_snacks_webinar/

• Press Release: http://iphionline.org/pdf/Tip_Sheets_Release.pdf

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Join a free WEBINAR to learn more about the strategies in the Controlling Junk Food Tip Sheets!

WEBINAR: Strategies for Implementing Smart Snacks in School: Learning from 8 Districts’ Successes in Controlling Junk Food and Maintaining Revenue

DATE: Friday, November 14, 2014―1pm Eastern/12pm Central/11pm Mountain/10am Pacific

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Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a middle school principal, a district food service director and CDC in this online event moderated by Illinois Public Health Institute researchers who authored the study.

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On October 16, the Illinois Public Health Institute released five tip sheets to help schools implement Smart Snacks in School while minimizing negative financial impact. Strategies are shared from eight school districts across the country that improved nutrition standards for their snack and à la carte food and beverages, known as "competitive foods," and maintained food service revenue. The tip sheets contain hands-on strategies for Food Service Directors, cafeteria staff, teachers, principals and families focused on marketing, selling and serving healthier foods and beverages to middle and high school students without negative financial impact. The tip sheets are:

1. Finances: Strategies to Maintain Revenues with Healthier Competitive Foods Standards

2. Creating and Implementing Policies for Healthier Competitive Foods Standards

3. Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Beverages Through Healthier Competitive Foods Standards

4. Student Education and Engagement to Support Healthier Competitive Foods Standards

5. Improving Cafeteria Strategies to Support Healthier Competitive Foods Standards

Alison Burdick, principal at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London, Connecticut, explains: “By working together with students, families and our community, we can support more healthy food choices in our schools. It’s about understanding what kids like to eat, always seeking new ways to give kids opportunities to eat healthy, educating the cafeteria staff, changing how they're interacting with the students, and an intentional look at menu choices so that the kids are never bored and there's always something new.”

Register for a free webinar on November 14 to learn more and hear from schools that have had success!

For more information, visit the Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line webpage or contact Jess Lynch at the Illinois Public Health Institute at [log in to unmask]

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Eight school districts across the country have improved nutrition standards for competitive foods without experiencing significant financial losses. Now they’ve shared their strategies, best practices, and tips. tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu Hear more from schools that have had success on a webinar on November 14th.

Released today: Five Tip Sheets with strategies for adopting the new federal Smarts Snacks in School nutrition standards – strategies, best practices and tips from 8 successful school districts. These districts served healthier foods and maintained revenues! tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

Implementing the new Smart Snacks in Schools nutrition standards? Read these Tip Sheets on maintaining revenue, creating & implementing policies, engaging students, improving cafeteria strategies & more. tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

Implementation of the new Smart Snacks in School nutrition standards provides an opportunity to offer healthier competitive foods--snacks and a la carte foods and beverages--in schools. Read successful strategies and tips from 8 school districts across the country that served healthier foods and maintained revenues! tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

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· Schools across the country are selling healthy snacks and maintaining revenues. Your schools can too with these tip sheets: tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

· Smart Snacks How-To: Finances - Strategies to Maintain Revenues with Healthier Competitive Foods Standards tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

· Smart Snacks How-To: Creating and Implementing Policies for Healthier Competitive Foods Standards tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

· Smart Snacks How-To: Student Education and Engagement to Support Healthier Competitive Foods Standards tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

· Smart Snacks How-To: Improving Access to Healthy Foods & Drinks Through Healthier Competitive Foods Standards tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

· Smart Snacks How-To: Improving Cafeteria Strategies to Support Healthier Competitive Foods Standards tinyurl.com/pjrwkyu

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