RECRUITING KEY LEADERS While attending regional wellness
meetings Boone County Schools representatives heard comments
regarding policy requirements and how other counties were
implementing to further their wellness initiatives RESA 3 Regional
Health Specialist Electa Crowder informed representatives regarding
the Fuel Up To Play 60 program and introduced Sharon Maynard of the
Dairy Council
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Available Grants The RESA representative disseminated grant
info: timelines, types of technical assistance available, offered
to guide any school through the process; also spoke with county
superintendents at their regional meetings This got the attention
of the county representatives and dialogue began between the
Wellness Coordinator and Superintendent at the county level
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FUTP60 and Wellness Policies FUTP60 is a program that fulfills
the federal criteria on nutritional promotion and physical activity
as those topics relate to requirements within individual wellness
policies for schools Districts must have a plan to implement in the
school communities that addresses each of the above and
collaboration is to exist between the parents, school personnel,
students, and community partners to accomplish this plan
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Administrative Support After the school nurse director met with
the County Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, it was
decided that all schools would participate in FUTP60 as a
collaborative effort to fulfill wellness initiatives required by
USDA and/or the federal wellness guidelines. This would involve the
County Wellness Team meeting and implementing through the health
and physical education staff at each school. Principals were
directly involved as well
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NASN NASN held a webinar this year, that illustrated how the
FUTP60 program and grants assisted school communities in fulfilling
new federal requirements
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Upcoming Changes Review* New requirements for LWPs with the
passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 Place greater
emphasis on the implementation, evaluation, and publicly reporting
on progress of LWPs Proposed Rule Fall 2012 Final Rule Fall 2013
LEAs expected to start implementing the new requirements NOW *NASN
Presentation Local Wellness
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Workshops Electa Crowder, the RESA 3 Wellness Specialist, the
local Food Services Director, Director of School Nurses and Sharon
Maynard of Dairy and Nutrition Council would lead the next three
workshops with all health and physical education teachers in Boone
County Schools
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FUTP60 Web Site Introduced All schools used the School Wellness
Inventory to identify strengths and weaknesses at the individual
schools BCS was already very strong in enforcement of nutritional
standards required by federal guidelines Most of the inventories
showed improvement was needed in community involvement with
wellness initiatives, students as ambassadors and health advocates,
and physical activity needed to increase during the school day
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FUTP60 Grant Funding BCS ASHFORD RUMBLE ELEMENTARY $2500
BROOKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $3500 JEFFREY-SPENCER ELEMENTARY $2500
MADISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $3500 MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL $3500 NELLIS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $2500
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Funding RAMAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $3100 SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL $3300
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $3500 SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOL $3400 SHERMAN
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL $3065
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Funding VAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $2500 VAN HIGH SCHOOL $2700
WHARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL $2500 WHITESVILLE ELEMENTARY $2700
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Touchdown Schools!!!! West Virginia only had 25 schools to
complete this major milestone with the program, with Boone County
representing 8 of those 25 schools. 32% of the schools who
qualified as touchdown schools in West Virginia were from Boone
County and included the following: Ashford-Rumble; Nellis; Madison
Elementary; Ramage; Sherman Elementary; Sherman High; Van High; and
Whitesville Elementary!
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Ramage Elementary
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Student Ambassadors
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Fun With Wellness
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Barriers and Interventions Assisting administrators at
individual schools and the Health and PE staff to realize that this
was not another task-another duty Instead, they were accomplishing,
by filing for FUTP60 grants, the following: creating a school
wellness plan and satisfying federal requirements in nutrition
promotion and physical activity!
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What we have learned: School program advisors need to be
reminded regularly about deadlines and assistance needs to be
available for grant writing (although FUTP60 has made it as easy as
possible) Food Services and School Health Services, Physical
Education and Health Educators, and Administrators must collaborate
for success
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Students and Parents Once the program has begun: other
participants have key roles to prevent one individual from feeling
overwhelmed. Discuss duties at Wellness Committee meetings to
divide the responsibilities Holistic approach; all of the school
community must be involved for success Pleasant surprises along the
way! Competitions, additional funding, collaborations for
additional grants, etc.
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Resources Dairy and Nutrition Council FUTP60 Web Site:
encourage participants to view tutorials and playbook on line
invaluable! Check the site often for new events and opportunities
Involve parents and business partners along with the students, when
creating the plan