Drinking Water

Eat Well & Keep Moving

Citation: Cheung LWY, Dart H, Kalin S, Otis B, Gortmaker SL. Eat Well & Keep Moving: An Interdisciplinary Elementary Curriculum Nutrition and Physical Activity (Third Edition). Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois, 2016.

Newsletter Handouts
Newsletter handouts to send home (educators can send home these sample newsletters to inform parents and complement the Eat Well & Keep Moving lesson topic being taught in the classroom). Newsletter handouts related to drinking water:
–Stay Cool
–Be Sugar Smart

Trainings
Training Workshop for Food Service Staff
Six training modules for food service staff provide an overview of the Eat Well & Keep Moving program, focusing on the role of food services in making the link between classroom and cafeteria. An additional lunch break demonstrates some cafeteria dishes. 

Food & Fun Afterschool

Full, 600-page Food & Fun Afterschool curriculum
This curriculum includes all units, planning tools, recipes, and parent materials. Units related to drinking water:
–Unit 3: Sugar Sweetened Drinks—Be Sugar Smart!
–Unit 10: Hydration—Be Active, Stay Cool!
–Unit 11: Food & Fun Finale!

Staff Training
Food & Fun Afterschool has several training strategies to help afterschool staff learn about and implement the curriculum, including a training video.

Staff Planning Tools
These planning tools can help staff create healthy changes in out-of-school settings.

Newsletter Articles, Emails, & Handouts
These tools help reinforce the messages in Food & Fun. All are available in English and Spanish, and the handouts are also available in Chinese.

Parent Handouts
These handouts – available in English, Spanish, and Chinese – include topic area information and tips for success for parents to create healthier environments for their children. Parent handout related to drinking water:
–Hydration

Learn more about Food & Fun Afterschool here.

Planet Health

Citation: Carter J, Wiecha JL, Peterson KE, Nobrega S, Gortmaker SL. Planet Health: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Teaching Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity (Second Edition). Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics; 2007.

Learn more about Planet Health here.

Out-of-School Nutrition and Physical Activity (OSNAP) Initiative

Tip Sheets
These tip sheets, informed by out-of-school/afterschool program experiences, can help afterschool and other out-of-school-time programs make sustainable changes to program practices. They are practical guides designed to simplify healthy changes and describe promising practices for out-of-school/afterschool staff. OSNAP tip sheets related to drinking water:
–Water, Water Everywhere!
–Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
–Healthy Staff, Healthy Kids!

Learn more about OSNAP here.

HPRC Water Access Scan Tool for Schools
This tool can be helpful for assessing the availability of water fountains, water coolers, hydration stations, and other sources of free water.

Keep it Flowing: A Practical Guide to School Drinking Water Planning, Maintenance, & Repair
This guide addresses the practical side of drinking water in schools by outlining the steps needed to provide adequate numbers of properly maintained drinking fountains and tap water dispensers in school buildings. It is designed for the people who make our nation’s schools run day-in and day-out, including those within state and tribal agencies and organizations, districts, school boards and local education authorities and schools.

Grab a Cup, Fill it Up!
Simple posters encouraging students to drink water and directing them to a water source location. These posters were used in a school-based cafeteria intervention that provided disposable cups near water fountains.

Food & Fun & Family

A Guide to Help Busy Families Develop Healthier Habits at Home
This guide contains lots tips and ideas for meals and activities that are healthy and fun for the whole family.

Recipe Packet
This recipe packet contains fun, healthy, and inexpensive recipes that are quick to prepare for both snack and dinner time.

Learn more about Food & Fun here.

Out-of-School Nutrition and Physical Activity (OSNAP) Initiative

Fast Maps
These tools are designed to help out-of-school/afterschool program staff overcome systematic challenges that go beyond the site level. For example, addressing issues of limited space for physical activity in out-of-school/afterschool programs might involve meeting with school principals or partnering with nearby community spaces. OSNAP Fast Maps related to drinking water:
–Improving Water Consumption
–Eliminating Sugary Drinks from Snacks Served

Practice Assessment Tool
This form can help out-of-school/afterschool program staff see where their program is currently at regarding the OSNAP standards. This form will help identify areas an organization can take action on to improve the health of kids.

Policy Writing Guide
This guide provides suggestions for language that can be directly inserted into parent or family handbooks, staff handbooks, general program handbooks, letters to families, staff training materials, or even schedules and menus. This can be used to write a policy for eliminating sugary drinks from being served and providing access to water.

Additional resources for healthy snacks and beverages, including a water pitcher sanitation guide.

Learn more about OSNAP here.

Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost-Effectiveness Study (CHOICES)

Brief: Improving Drinking Water Equity and Access in California Schools
This brief summarizes a CHOICES Learning Collaborative Partnership model examining a strategy to improve access to drinking water in California schools. This voluntary water equity and access program involves the installation of touchless chilled water dispensers on or near school cafeteria lunch lines in K-8 non-charter California public schools that have adequate plumbing.

Learn more about CHOICES here.

Safe Home Drinking Water

Case Study Briefs
These research briefs highlight findings from an assessment of state and local programs and policies for home water quality testing, home well water treatment device installation, filter pitcher distribution, and lead service line replacement:
-Executive Summary & all six case study briefs: All
-Individual files:
–Safe Home Drinking Water: A Series of Six Case Study Briefs – Executive Summary
–New Jersey Private Well Testing Act
–New Hampshire & Vermont Private Well Testing Via Primary Care Clinics
–The NH Water Well-Ness Initiative to Protect Pregnant WIC Participants from Contaminants in Private Well Water
–Porterville, CA: Point-of-Use Filtration & Bottled Water Delivery Pilot Program to Protect Pregnant People and Infants from Nitrates in Private Well Water
–Cincinnati Enhanced Lead Program to Replace Lead Service Lines
–Denver Water Filter Program

Learn more about the Safe Home Water project here.

Early Adopters: State Approaches to Testing School Drinking Water for Lead in the United States

These research briefs & full report take a closer look at states’ efforts related to testing school drinking water for lead.
–Full research report: Early Adopters: State Approaches to Testing School Drinking Water for Lead in the United States
–Healthy Eating Research Brief: Early Adopters: State Approaches to Testing School Drinking Water for Lead in the United States

State reports

Learn more about the Early Adopters project here.

AJPH Podcast, Sept 2017 – Water Access & Health Disparities in the U.S.
Lead author Carolyn Brooks, Dr. Anisha Patel, and Kelley Dearing-Smith discuss a massive public health problem which is rarely mentioned and probably underestimated — unequal access to water in the United States –in this podcast with the American Journal of Public Health hosted by Alfredo Morabia. Learn more about this research here.