Use the following sample policies and guidelines to help you put your congregation's own wellness commitments into writing to make sure your efforts to create a healthy environment will continue into the future. A policy gives your intentions "more teeth." In other words, people will take your faith community's wellness goals more seriously, and be more likely to act on them, if you take the time to make them official. Change any language that doesn't seem relevant to you and make your policies more meaningful by including words about how you see wellness as a spiritual practice or obligation.

Policies to Support a Healthy Food and Nutrition Environment

These examples should all have lead-in sentences so people know what they're about:

Fellowship food guidelines from AUCC ...

Breastfeeding-friendly guidelines -- NEED TO FIND EXAMPLES STILL

Day care nutrition guidelines - NYC hlth dept

OR DHS nutrition policy

Beverage policies

Vending machine policies - N-Plan?

Religious ed. policies?? resolving to incorporate nutrition messages and practices

Emergency food nutrition policies

Memos of understanding for farm to congregation and food micro-enterprise

Policies for a Built Environment that Supports Physical Activity

These examples should all have lead-in sentences so people know what they're about:

Day care phys. activ. guidelines - NYC hlth dept.

OR DHS phys activ. policy

Religious ed. policies?? resolving to incorporate p.a. messages and time

Joint use agreements

Playground or gym safety etc.

Screen time limitation