Advocacy and Policy Tools

Check out our policy guides and community tool kits to help improve the school nutrition and physical activity environment. These resources were developed for use with adolescents, teachers, school administrators, and community members.

California Project LEAN receives 2004 Innovation in Prevention Award!
Recognizing the "Successful Students Through Healthy Food Policies" project designed to increase school boards development and adoption of healthy nutrition policies.

▶ California's Obesity Crisis: Focus on Solutions What Schools Can Do
These policy briefs provide a quick, easy-to-use reference for high profile subjects in the school nutrition/physical activity environment. They should be used to educate state and local policymakers as they work towards solutions for school environments.

CAPTIVE KIDS: SELLING OBESITY AT SCHOOLS
An Action Guide to Stop the Marketing of
Unhealthy Foods and Beverages in School
This tool kit addresses the issue of marketing unhealthy foods and beverages on California school campuses and was produced as a result of the growing public concern over the obesity epidemic and the role that marketing plays in establishing eating patterns.

Creative School Fund-raising Ideas
Looking for non-food and beverage fundraising ideas? This handout is filled with them!

Food on the Run: Lessons from a Youth Nutrition and Physical Activity Campaign
This guide outlines how to implement a youth advocacy program addressing nutrition and physical activity.

Playing the Policy Game Advocacy Guide
This tool kit is designed to engage youth in the school policy process and highlights nutrition and physical activity policies that teens can pursue with adult guidance. Available in English and Spanish

Reaching School Board Members Guide
This guide helps advocates convey their nutrition policy message effectively while at the same time helping school board members gain the information they need to create effective nutrition policies. Available in English and Spanish

School Health Connections 2006 Executive Summary

Student Wellness: A Healthy Food and Physical Activity Policy Resource Guide
The guide outlines the link between nutrition, physical activity and learning; addresses the nutritional and physical activity status of children and youth.

Taking the Fizz out of Soda Contracts: A Guide to Community Action

UC Berkeley TV Brief

Youth Advocacy Video
Involving youth in the policy process is a critical step to achieving and sustaining policy/environmental changes that support healthy eating, physical education and physical activity. California Project LEAN (CPL) developed this video to highlight successful efforts undertaken by CPL youth advocates to make it easier for school children to eat healthier and be physically active

•   Food on the Run: Lessons from a Youth Nutrition and Physical Activity Campaign