Boone County Schools Wellness
GETTING STARTED
RECRUITING KEY LEADERS
• While attending regional wellness meetings
Boone County Schools’ representatives heard
comments regarding policy requirements and
how other counties were implementing to further
their wellness initiatives
• RESA 3 Regional Health Specialist Electa Crowder
informed representatives regarding the Fuel Up
To Play 60 program and introduced Sharon
Maynard of the Dairy Council
Available Grants
• The RESA representative disseminated grant info:
timelines, types of technical assistance available,
offered to guide any school through the process;
also spoke with county superintendents at their
regional meetings
• This got the attention of the county
representatives and dialogue began between the
Wellness Coordinator and Superintendent
at the county level
FUTP60 and Wellness Policies
• FUTP60 is a program that fulfills the federal
criteria on nutritional promotion and physical
activity as those topics relate to requirements
within individual wellness policies for schools
• Districts must have a plan to implement in the
school communities that addresses each of the
above and collaboration is to exist between the
parents, school personnel, students, and
community partners to accomplish this plan
Administrative Support
• After the school nurse director met with the
County
Superintendent
and
Assistant
Superintendent, it was decided that all schools
would participate in FUTP60 as a collaborative
effort to fulfill wellness initiatives required by
USDA and/or the federal wellness guidelines.
• This would involve the County Wellness Team
meeting and implementing through the health
and physical education staff at each school.
• Principals were directly involved as well
NASN
• NASN held a webinar this year, that illustrated
how the FUTP60 program and grants assisted
school communities in fulfilling new federal
requirements
Upcoming Changes
 Review*
– New requirements for LWPs with the passage of the
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
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Place greater emphasis on the implementation, evaluation, and
publicly reporting on progress of LWPs
– Proposed Rule Fall 2012
– Final Rule Fall 2013
– LEAs expected to start implementing the new
requirements NOW
Local Wellness
• *NASN Presentation
Workshops
• Electa Crowder, the RESA 3 Wellness
Specialist, the local Food Services Director,
Director of School Nurses and Sharon
Maynard of Dairy and Nutrition Council would
lead the next three workshops with all health
and physical education teachers in Boone
County Schools
FUTP60 Web Site Introduced
• All schools used the School Wellness Inventory to
identify strengths and weaknesses at the
individual schools
• BCS was already very strong in enforcement of
nutritional standards required by federal
guidelines
• Most of the inventories showed improvement
was needed in community involvement with
wellness initiatives, students as ambassadors and
health advocates, and physical activity needed to
increase during the school day
FUTP60 Grant Funding BCS
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ASHFORD RUMBLE ELEMENTARY
$2500
BROOKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$3500
JEFFREY-SPENCER ELEMENTARY
$2500
MADISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$3500
MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL
$3500
NELLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$2500
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RAMAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$3100
SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL
$3300
SHERMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$3500
SHERMAN HIGH SCHOOL
$3400
SHERMAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
$3065
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VAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$2500
VAN HIGH SCHOOL
$2700
WHARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
$2500
WHITESVILLE ELEMENTARY
$2700
Touchdown Schools!!!!
• West Virginia only had 25 schools to complete
this major milestone with the program, with
Boone County representing 8 of those 25
schools. 32% of the schools who qualified as
‘touchdown schools’ in West Virginia were from
Boone County and included the following:
• Ashford-Rumble; Nellis; Madison Elementary;
Ramage; Sherman Elementary; Sherman High;
Van High; and Whitesville Elementary!
Ramage Elementary
Student Ambassadors
Fun With Wellness
Barriers and Interventions
• Assisting administrators at individual schools
and the Health and PE staff to realize that this
was not “another task-another duty”
• Instead, they were accomplishing, by filing for
FUTP60 grants, the following: creating a
school wellness plan and satisfying federal
requirements in nutrition promotion and
physical activity!
What we have learned:
• School program advisors need to be reminded
regularly about deadlines and assistance
needs to be available for grant writing
(although FUTP60 has made it as easy as
possible)
• Food Services and School Health Services,
Physical Education and Health Educators, and
Administrators must collaborate for success
Students and Parents
• Once the program has begun: other participants
have key roles to prevent one individual from
feeling overwhelmed. Discuss duties at Wellness
Committee meetings to divide the responsibilities
• Holistic approach; all of the school community
must be involved for success
• Pleasant surprises along the way! Competitions,
additional funding, collaborations for additional
grants, etc.
Resources
• Dairy and Nutrition Council
• FUTP60 Web Site: encourage participants to
view tutorials and playbook on line–
invaluable! Check the site often for new
events and opportunities
• Involve parents and business partners along
with the students, when creating the ‘plan’