USDA FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SERVICES

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Funding a Local Wellness Policy

Local wellness policies promote health and wellness in each school district. They allow schools to take an active role in promoting student wellness and preventing obesity. Local wellness policies can be created and implemented with any level of financial commitment.

Be creative when you are looking for funding. There are many sources of funding that may be available to you. Some examples include health insurance providers, private foundations, community organizations, and government agencies. It may be possible to fund several of the projects that fall under your local wellness policy with just one grant, rather than relying on a different funding source for each program.

This page provides some examples of grants and funding sources that may help finance your policy development and implementation.

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) 8
Improving Health and Educational Outcomes of Young People (CDC-RFA-DP08-801)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2008 funds for cooperative agreements between the CDC and State Education Agencies (SEA), State Health Agencies (SHA), Territorial Education Agencies (TEA), Federally Recognized American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Governments (TG), and large urban Local Education Agencies (LEA) to improve health and educational outcomes of young people through establishing and strengthening coordinated school health programs. Tribal governments are defined as an American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 USC 479a.

The purpose of this program announcement is to improve the health and well-being of young people and prepare them to be healthy adults. Funding is made available to

• Monitor critical health-related behaviors among high school students through implementation of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

• Enable schools to implement effective policies and practices to prevent and reduce sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

• Enable schools to implement coordinated school health programs and, through this approach effective policies and practices to promote physical activity, improve nutrition, and reduce tobacco use among students.

• Enable schools to implement effective policies and practices to prevent and reduce asthma episodes and absences among students with asthma.

• Provide professional development including training and technical assistance to SEA, SHA, TEA, TG, and LEA funded under this program announcement.

This announcement places a strong emphasis on coordinating school health programs and activities. Applicants are encouraged to consider how to coordinate through cross-agency partnerships, such as between education and health agencies; across programmatic areas, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sexually transmitted disease (STD), and teen pregnancy prevention, or physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use prevention; by establishing or supporting coalitions; and across components of coordinated school health programs.

For verification and justification for using selected markers to determine eligibility and funding levels in FOA DP08-801, see funding eligibility information.