The Quick & Easy Guide to School Wellness:
Five Ways to Improve Student Nutrition and Fitness

The Healthy Schools Campaign, an independent not-for-profit organization, is the leading authority on healthy school environments and a voice for people who care about our environment, our children, and education. Our mission is to advocate for policies and practices that allow all students, teachers and staff to learn and work in a healthy school environment. HSC launched The Quick & Easy Guide to School Wellness in late June 2007 with a print run of 10,000 copies. The guide has generated an overwhelmingly positive response, and demand has been so strong that all of the original copies have been ordered and distributed. Now, HSC is printing more guides and working on additions for an expanded second edition. Opportunities are now available to sponsor the updated and expanded second version of this popular resource.

Click here to download a prototype of the guide [pdf].

Sponsorship Opportunity

HSC is now accepting sponsors for The Quick & Easy Guide to School Wellness: Five Ways to Improve Student Nutrition and Fitness, a comprehensive multi-media guide designed to help schools develop and launch programs that promote healthy eating and active lifestyles among students.

National Distribution

HSC plans to distribute 65,000 guides to school administrators, teachers, parents and school nurses through a set of strategic partnerships with national education associations with an emphasis on distribution to school nurses.

Guides are being distributed through strategic partnerships with national educational organizations including the American Federation of Teachers - Healthcare, the Association of School Business Officials International, Parents for Public Schools, the Public Education Network, the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Association of School Nurses. We expect other national education associations to participate in the program as well.

Sponsorship Benefits

• Opportunity to reach 65,000 key decision makers and influencers in the K-12 education community
• Space on the CD and on the website to describe your products and/or services that promote or contribute to student wellness
• Your company name listed prominently in the sponsorship section of the brochure
• Copies of the guide to send to key contacts and business partners
• Opportunities for national media exposure

Sponsorship Advantages

• Associates your brand with a respected not-for-profit organization and its mission
• Demonstrates your commitment to children’s health and school wellness
• Raises your company’s profile as a leader on school wellness

Sponsorship Packages

HSC reserves the right to select the products and services highlighted in the guide

To learn how your company can get involved, contact Rochelle Davis at 312-419-1810 or by email

Details about the Guide

The Quick & Easy Guide to School Wellness: Five Ways to Improve Student Nutrition and Fitness is a multi-media program designed to help schools develop and launch programs that promote healthy eating and active lifestyles. Users can access this program online or from a CD. The CD is packaged inside a six-page, four-color brochure that outlines the program. The guide is supported by a website and quarterly newsletters containing new tools and resources.

This resource-rich guide is designed for school administrators, school nurses, teachers, food service directors, PTAs/PTOs and parents. It includes information about successful programs designed to promote healthy eating and physical activity, such as plans for integrating food and nutrition education into traditional academic curricula, and for adding physical activity into classroom activities and after-school programs. The guide includes sections on improving food available at school; increasing physical activity; teaching good nutrition; encouraging staff wellness; and engaging parents. It also includes case studies and advice for long-term success.

About Healthy Schools Campaign

HSC is a vibrant and growing not-for-profit organization dedicated to making schools healthier places in which to learn and work. HSC is a leader in addressing environmental health and wellness -- particularly in connection to the crises of childhood obesity and asthma. One way in which HSC does this is by providing schools and school districts with resources and tools for improving health. These include:

• The Quick and Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools: This nationally distributed guide includes step-by-step instructions for schools and districts interested in adopting healthy and environmentally friendly cleaning strategies.

• Illinois Resource Guide for Healthy, High-Performing School Buildings: This official state document provides state-of-the-art strategies for building and maintaining schools with lower-cost, high-efficiency systems and healthy environments.

• Action and Resource Guide for Healthy Schools: The essential handbook on school environmental hazards and strategies for improving school environmental health.

• Healthy Schools Magazine: A biannual publication that includes interviews and the latest news on school nutrition, environmental health and wellness initiatives.