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HealthierUS School Challenge: Smarter Lunchrooms

(HUSSC: SL)http://www.fns.usda.gov/hussc/healthierus-school-challenge

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Team Nutrition Initiative

• Goal: To improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits.

• Provide:- Training and TA for healthy meals- Nutrition Education- School and Community Support- Links to partners and supporters

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HealthierUS School Challenge: Smarter Lunchrooms

• Voluntary certification initiative recognizing excellence in school nutrition and physical activity

• Consistent with school meal pattern requirements

• 4 Award Levels

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Team Nutrition School• Join free! http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/join-team

School Meals Program• Participate in SBP and NSLP• Meet USDA nutrition standards• All corrective actions completed• SFA 6-cent certified• Meet ADP (Silver or higher)• SL techniques implemented• Smart Snacks

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

• Technical Assistance- – National School Lunch Program requirements– Nutrition and School Wellness requirements– Physical Education/Activity requirements

• Regional Trainings

• Resources

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Average Daily Participation (ADP)Bronze Silver Gold Gold Award of

Distinction

Breakfast

Elementary No criteria 20% 35% 35%

Middle No criteria 20% 35% 35%

High No criteria 15% 25% 25%

Lunch

Elementary No criteria 60% 75% 75%

Middle No criteria 60% 75% 75%

High No criteria 45% 65% 65%

7http://healthymeals.nal.usda.gov/healthierus-school-challenge-resources/smarter-lunchrooms

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Smarter Lunchroom (SL) Techniques• Smarter Lunchroom Self-Assessment

Scorecardhttp://smarterlunchrooms.org/sites/default/files/lunchroom_self-assessmt_score_card.final_.4-3-14.pdf

• Bronze – at least 30 action items• Silver/Gold – 50 action items• Gold Award of Distinction – 70 action items

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

• SL Examples– Display the whole fruit– Give vegetables creative names– Use signs and verbal prompts to draw attention to

fruits, vegetables, reimbursable meals– Maintain an efficient, clean, and fun environment

for eating meals

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Smart SnacksAll Award Levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Gold Award of Distinction)• Must meet Smart Snacks in School Nutrition Standards.

– All foods and beverages sold to students during the school day* meet or exceed the USDA's nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold to students

– A la carte, vending, school stores, snack or food carts and any food-based fundraising

– School follows fundraising exemptions and guidance set by their State agency

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Smart SnacksBronze/Silver• Meets Smart Snacks criteria as defined in

7 CFR Parts 210 and 220• The school offers training on Smart Snacks criteria annually

to all individuals who are involved in the sale of foods to students on the school campus during the school day.

• The school does not advertise or market foods and beverages that do not meet Smart Snacks criteria to students.

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Alliance Smart Snacks Product CalculatorTake the guesswork out of the Guidelines

HealthierGeneration.org/smartsnacks

Smart Snacks Resources

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Other Smart Snacks Resources• Questions and Answers related to the Smart

Snacks Interim Final Rule http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/SP23-2014os.pdf

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School Environment’s Role

Nutrition Education

School Staff

School Events

Eating HabitsPhysical

Activity Habits

Local SchoolWellness Policies

School Environment

Food

Nutrition & Health

Messages

Food & Beverage Marketing Physical

Activity Opportunities

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Criteria focus on entire school environment• Established criteria to impact students at school,

home, and in the community– Nutrition Education– Physical Education– Physical Activity– Local School Wellness Policy– Other Criteria for Excellence

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Local School Wellness Policy• 2004 – Reauthorization Act (Sec. 204 of Public Law 108-205)• 2010 – Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Sec. 204 of Public Law

111-296)• 2014 – Proposed rule for wellness policies was published in Federal

Register• For model policy resources and updates:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/local-school-wellness-policy

NH DOE BNPS Wellness PowerPoint presentation, August 2014:http://www.education.nh.gov/program/nutrition/trainings.htm

https://www.healthiergeneration.org/take_action/schools/wellness_councils__policies/wellness_policies/

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Local School Wellness Policy • All Award Levels• Submit copy of your school’s local wellness policy with

application.• List three ways your school is working to meet local

wellness policy goals.• Describe how parents, students, school

administration/staff, and community is involved.• Demonstrate a commitment to prohibit use of food as

a reward.

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2014 HUSSC: SL Criteria

Other Criteria for Excellence• Program Outreach Excellence• Excellence in School and Community Involvement

in Wellness Efforts• School Food Service Excellence

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HealthierUS School ChallengeIncentives and Goals

HUSSC: SL Awardees Receive• Display Banner• Certificate signed by the Secretary of

Agriculture and mounted on a plaque• Recognition on the Team Nutrition

Web site• Congratulatory letter signed by the First

Lady of the United States• Monetary incentivesAward Bronze Silver Gold Gold Award of

DistinctionAmount $500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000

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Take the Challenge Get Awarded

• Schools get recognized for what they do to create a healthy school nutrition environment!

http://www.fns.usda.gov/hussc/healthierus-school-challenge

22www.whatscooking.fns.usda.gov

23http://www.fns.usda.gov/healthierschoolday

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NFSMI Offers Free Training & Resources

www.nfsmi.org

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• Launched in 1995 as part of the School Meals Initiative (SMI)

• Funded by USDA/FNS, maintained by NAL’s FNIC in collaboration with UMD http://healthymeals.nal.usda.gov/menu-planning/nutrition-standards-school-meals

Healthy Meals Resource SystemAdvancing access to information for schoolsand child care settings participating in

USDA Child Nutrition Programs

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For more information:Bureau of Nutrition Programs & Services

Judy Gosselin- judy.gosselin@doe.nh.govCheri White- cheri.white@doe.nh.gov

Nutrition and School WellnessRobin Peters- robin.peters@unh.edu

Debbie Luppold- debbie.luppold@unh.edu

Physical Education/ActivityScot Foster- scot.j.foster@dhhs.state.nh.us