Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy lifestyle choices in our everyday lives, and involving our family in these choices, leads to a healthy lifestyle and life long habits.
Activity Ideas
- Develop/Use Hike and Bike Trails
- Develop and/or utilize biking and hiking trails on campus and in community and encourage use
- Pre-Lunch Recess
- Incorporate recess before lunch because studies show it results in less food waste, less rush to finish lunch, and fewer behavioral problems.
- Candy Free Fundraiser
- Substitute healthy fundraisers for traditional approaches
- Walk to School
- Encourage walking to school
- Family Nature Groups
- Encourage community and family walking groups, family nature groups
- Healthy Lifestyles Committee
- Appoint a Healthy Lifestyles Chair/committee on PTA-PTO board.
- Healthy Lifestyles at School
- Implement a Healthy Lifestyles Program at school. Encourage healthy lifestyles at home with a plan that makes healthy choices easy and fun. Acknowledge and reward participation and progress.
- Healthy Lifestyles at Home
- Encourage healthy lifestyles at home with a plan that makes healthy choices easy and fun. Acknowledge and reward participation and progress.
- Coordinated School Health (CSHP) Program
- Coordinated School Health (CSHP) Program implementation (K-12) (campus or district level)
- School Health Advisory Council (SHAC)
- Ensure School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) (campus and district level) is in place and involve parents. Maintain contact with regional school health specialist (through CSHP) for support and communication with partners.
- Campus Improvement Plan
- Create and Conduct yearly review of CSHP goals in Campus Improvement Plan by Campus (or SHAC) Advisory Council (resource: Texas Action for Healthy Kids, SB 892)
- Barrier Bust
- Identify the barriers and threats to healthy lifestyles in your community. Do a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) and move toward breaking down those barriers.
Links to more Web Resources
Visit the Resources page for more ideas.
