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Afterschool programs play a key role in the health and well-being of children through activities that encourage healthy behaviors, a healthy environment that includes a healthy snack or meal, and a focus on parental involvement to reinforce healthy behaviors at home.
What’s New in Healthy AfterSchools!
- Congratulations to the ten afterschool programs who each received a $2,000 mini-grant from Illinos NET to increase healthy eating and physical activity in their students and /or their families! Check out the winners and their goals for 2010-2011.
- NEW! Refuel Afterschool with Food and Fitness -a FREE webinar training that will provide after-school administrators and staff with the tools and confidence to incorporate fun activities that teach kids from K-Grade 12 about eating right and being physically active.
Date: September 22, 2010 10:00-11:15 AM (CST) Register now!
- Save the Date! 25th Annual IAN Afterschool Spring Conference April 15-16, 2011, Naperville, IL.
- Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award supports youth gardening programs. Thirty programs will be awarded a $500 gift certificate to the Gardening with Kids catalog and other great prizes. Deadline October 1, 2010. Click HERE
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Resources for a Healthy AfterSchool Environment
Afterschool Food Assistance Resources
- Federal and State Child Nutrition Assistance Programs
- Afterschool Snacking Toolkit – A toolkit from the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and Kraft Foodservice that provides everything you need to know to start a new afterschool snack service – or to enhance your existing afterschool snack offerings. Available to SNA members only.
- Snack Sense – A menu planning tool to provide fun, healthy, and budget-friendly snacks for children in afterschool and out-of-school time programs
- USDA School Meals Website – A federal government website for information regarding snacks and meals served before, during and after the school day.
Resources for Linking School Wellness Policies to Afterschool Programs
- Afterschool and Health: Opportunities for Advocacy – A toolkit from the Afterschool Alliance that provides an overview of the Local Wellness Policy requirements and shows how to build on existing relationships with students, schools, parents and the community to advance student-health-promotion initiatives.
- Illinois NET Program Website – Free resources, toolkits and information about creating, implementing and evaluating a local wellness policy
- Strategic Alliance: ENACT – A hands-on assessment and planning tool for organizations, coalitions, and communities interested in improving their nutrition and physical activity environments
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Afterschool Nutrition Education and Physical Activity Resources
Nutrition Education and Physical Activity Programs and Activities
- Healthy Afterschool Program and Resource Chart - This handy reference chart has over 30 nutrition education and physical activity programs and resources and makes it easy to find the right one for your afterschool program. Includes hands-on food activities, gardening activities, and ways to incorporate nutrition and fitness into core subjects.
Fun, simple nutrition education activities you can try TODAY!
- MyPyramid Bingo (PDF) – A fun, easy game for younger students. (Grades 2-4)
- MyPyramid for Kids – Games, worksheets, activities and other materials to teach kids about the principles of the MyPyramid. (Grades K-12)
- Nutrition Fact Cards – Mock food labels that you can use to teach older kids how to read food labels. (Grades 6-12)
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Parent Outreach Resources
- Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Healthy Lifestyle! – A website created to help parents and caregivers eat better, be more physically active and be a role model for their kids. Includes reproducible fact sheets with healthy eating tips, menu planning tips, and healthy recipes.
- Food and Family Handbook – A handbook from Food and Fun After School that afterschool programs can use to engage parents in reinforcing healthy behaviors at home. All the pages are reproducible and contain easy-to-understand information on healthy eating and physical activity that you can send home to parents and families.
- Nibbles for Health – A reproducible newsletter you can send home to parents of young children in your program. It contains easy-to-read, practical, and empowering messages about healthful eating and active living.
- Nutrition Essentials– Reproducible parent fact sheetswith tips to help teens develop healthy habits.
- Pack a Snack Box – A reproducible fact sheet for parents on how to create a snack box and teach their kids to choose healthy snacks.
- Pick A Better Snack and ACT– a toolkit to help families increase the amount of fruits and vegetables their kids eat by using them as snacks. Includes reproducible newsletters, recipe cards, monthly lessons, games and posters.
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Additional Afterschool Wellness Resources
Best-Practices in Healthy Afterschool Programs – Coming Soon!
This program has been funded at least in part with Federal funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services. The content of this website does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department, nor does mention of trade names, commercial product, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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