Solutions: Plans for Evaluation of Wellness Policy Implementation
We are able to implement wellness initiatives, but then don’t follow-up with evaluation due to a lack of time or resources.
Research Confirms:
The HKC best practice, Building Wellness into the School Environment, shows how a school used HKC survey tools to identify needs, determine actions and guide changes toward a successful and effective wellness policy.
Putting Wellness Policy Implementation Evaluation into Action = Best Practice
Share the methods you use to evaluate your wellness policy implementation!
What Schools Tell Us:
Based on the Bridging the Gap research program, approximately 54% of all students were enrolled in a district with some type of policy that addressed evaluation. However, that evaluation varied from 3 times a year to every 5 years and the evaluation methods varied greatly.
Solutions:
Keep evaluation methods simple and easy to repeat. Healthy Kids Challenge provides schools help with planning, implementing, measuring progress and the evaluation of wellness initiatives. See an example below.
