HealthierUS School Challenge
Meet the HealthierUS School Challenge
with Healthy Kids Challenge® Resources
The HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC) is a voluntary initiative to recognize those schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity.
The HUSSC goal is to improve the health of the Nation’s children by promoting healthier school environments. To help meet the goal, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service identifies schools that have made changes to
- improve the quality of the foods served,
- provide students with nutrition education, and
- provide students with physical education and opportunities for physical activity.
Healthy Kids Challenge® can help you meet those goals!
Jackson Middle School is an example of great outcomes. They expanded their healthy eating options and offered more choices of vegetables at meals. The result was a healthy impact on fruit and vegetable consumption! Middle school students (600 total enrollment) are now eating over 400 more servings combined of fruits and vegetables at lunch each day! Read success story.
The Creative Cafeteria gives just a few samples of easy to use ideas. Contact HKC
How HKC can help
- Align your program with the HealthierUS School Challenge through comprehensive training for improving school meal programs, nutrition education, and physical education/physical activity. Start with a HKC workshop.
- Provide educational resources like the Balance My Day Curriculum™ (includes a school nutrition services section) that meet HECAT standards or Health Works, a great starter kit for the whole.
- Help you utilize the HUSSC criteria to identify, implement, and evaluate needed changes and guide you throughout the process.
For additional information, contact HKC
Let's Move! HUSSC incentives
First Lady Michelle Obama has incorporated the HealthierUS School Challenge into her Let’s Move! campaign to raise a healthier generation of kids. The Let’s Move! campaign has designated monetary incentive awards for each HUSSC award level: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Gold Award of Distinction.
For another example of how Healthy Kids Challenge® is making a healthy difference, read about HKC's participation in the Orange County Public School Chef's Move to Schools event.
