Best Practices

Healthy Kids Challenge schools and programs are leading the way in making healthy eating and physical activity best practice recommendations a reality!

Healthy Kids Challenge is pleased to share best practices by schools, youth programs, and community KidLinks™ that are truly making a healthy difference for kids! Among those represented are CIGNA sponsored schools and Kansas Kids C.A.N. programs (Kansas Kids C.A.N., a Kansas Sunflower Foundation: Healthcare for Kansas grant).

Click on your area(s) of interest to see best practice examples.

Classroom Activities   Ideas for classroom or P.E. teachers related to healthy eating and/or physical activity.

School-wide Ideas   Collaborative actions within the school to build awareness, support, skill building activities, and behaviors for healthy eating and/or physical activity.

Healthy Eating Choices   Ideas for cafeteria, vending, fundraisers, and other environments to make it easier to choose healthy options.

Staff Wellness   Actions taken to build staff wellness and role-modeling.     Youth Leader Activities   Ideas for youth leaders related to healthy eating and/or physical activity.

Community and Parent Connections   Health fair, parent involvement and other ideas to link healthy happenings in the youth program.     Youth Program-wide Ideas   Collaborative actions within the youth program to build awareness, support, skill building activities, and behaviors for healthy eating and/or physical activity.