State and Local Team Nutrition

Team Nutrition is an initiative of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service to support the Child Nutrition Programs through training and technical assistance for foodservice, nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity.

• Action for Healthy Kids - http://www.actionforhealthykids.com
  
  
• Team Nutrition - http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/
  
  
• HealthierUS Schools Challenge - http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/HealthierUS/index.html

Childcare Wellness

• Making it Balance and Kickin' it Up!: A Cycle Menu for Maine Child Care
  
  

Local School Wellness Policies for Maine

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act: On June 30, 2004, President Bush signed the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 into law, which contains a local school wellness policy provision. The wellness policy provision requires every school district that participates in the federal school meals programs to enact a wellness policy by the first day of the 2006-07 school year. Because all school districts in Maine have at least one school that participates in the federal school meal program, all school districts are required to develop a district-wide wellness policy.
 

• Fact Sheet: Click for more information

• Wellness Policy Training Hayes Handouts

• Wellness Policy Training Hayes Slides

• Local Wellness Policy Development Presentation Slides (Direct viewing version)

  • PowerPoint file (Choose "Save" to download and bring into PowerPoint)

  • .pdf version

• Local Wellness Policy Template

• Local Wellness School Policy Web Resources

 

Maine Guide - Supporting Healthy Changes in School Nutrition Environments

• Maine Guide - . pdf

• Maine Guide - Word (.doc)

  
  
  

Eat Smart

Eat Smart: It's a healthy start! was a four-year social marketing campaign of the Maine Nutrition Network (1998-2002). The overall campaign goal was to increase the number of food stamp families who adopt healthful eating habits. The primary target audience was adult food stamp recipients with children less than 19 years of age living with them. Because this was a state wide campaign, with many message distribution channels being used, there was a spill over to the general population (secondary audience).
 
For more information, contact Lori Kaley, MS, RD, LD, at (207) 626-5258.

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