Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness
Communication Tools for September
As part of Building Healthy Communities, your school receives Communication Tools monthly. The newsletter articles for parents, daily morning announcements and weekly social media posts for Facebook and Twitter are designed to help reinforce the healthy changes your school is making. If your school would like to enhance your communication efforts, we have some additional, optional opportunities outlined in a separate document, Building Healthy Communities: Communications Resource Guide.
Newsletter article for parents:
Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness
Our school has been selected to participate in the Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness program for the 2016-2017 school year. We are excited to participate in this program that provides students, teachers and administrators with the tools and support needed to grow our efforts toward a healthy school environment. Why is this important in schools? There is a positive connection between health and academic achievement.
Through Building Healthy Communities, our school will be working on Smarter Lunchroom and Active Recess. We invite you talk with your student about these new wellness initiatives in our school and explore ways to practice the healthy behaviors learned at school. We look forward to a happy, healthy new school year with you and your student!
The Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness program is a partnership that includes Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Education, Michigan Fitness Foundation, Michigan State University Extension, Michigan Team Nutrition, United Dairy Industry of Michigan and Action for Healthy Kids.
Morning announcements:
These short messages provide encouragement for students to choose healthy foods and be physically active. They support your Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness program and can be read by a student or any school staff member. If needed, the content can be adapted for high school students to be more age appropriate.
The May 23, 2022 - Child Nutrition Programs (CNP) Bulletin No. 36 from the MDE gave information on a revised Nondiscrimination Statement, including content, timeline and guidance.
According to the bulletin, “The updated 2022 Nondiscrimination Statement (NDS):
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or (2) fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: [email protected].
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.