Building a Healthier Polk 3 Year Summary | Page 11

summary
In the last three years there has been significant growth in

Building a Healthier Polk (BHP) School Age Strategy will

Polk County School’s capacity to include physical activity

continue to support the organizations that reach school-

in the classroom setting. In addition, the county now

aged youth, within the school and outside of school.

has a health education class included as a high school

This group pledged to continue efforts involving the

graduation requirement.

implementation of preventative tactics that will aid in

The 5-2-1-0 Campaign was extremely well-received among
the community at large and within the school district.

decreasing obesity rates among school-aged youth. They
will now serve as the BHP School Age Alignment Team.

Educational materials were easily adopted into the schools
in both the cafeteria and health education curriculum.
The collaboration between members of this strategy group
has helped increase awareness of the correlation between
health and student achievement and reached a broader
audience with this message.
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