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Find out more about safe routes to school, download physical education curriculum resources and learn more about farm to school and student nutrition.

After School Programs

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver
  Since 1961, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver has been helping kids from tough neighborhoods in the metro Denver area stay out of trouble, stay in school and succeed in life. Not just after-school hangouts, the Clubs are places where young people come to learn, do homework, develop social skills, express themselves creatively, and participate in sports.

• CANFit Healthy Snack Guide
  CANFit offers guidelines for providing healthy snacks in after school programs.  

• Center for Collaborative Solutions - After School Programs
  These resources can help schools build comprehensive after school programs.

Farm to School

• National Farm to School Online
  These resources and tools help schools participate in farm to school programs. 

Physical Education

• Active Living Research
  In schools across the United States, physical education has been substantially reduced— and in some cases completely eliminated—in response to budget concerns and pressures to improve academic test scores. See this document for important findings regarding the impact of cutting physical education.

• National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
  These tools and resources are specifically designed for physical educators.  

• Partnership for Prevention: School-Based Physical Education Action Guide
  This website offers information on the resources and key steps schools can use to increase physical activity among children and adolescents in physical education classes.  

• Treeswing
  Treeswing is filled with physical education and physical activity resources for schools.

Safe Routes to School

• Bicycle Safety Activity Kit
  This activity kit for students, in English and Spanish, was designed by the U.S. Department of Transportation.  

• California Center for Physical Activity: Safe Routes for Kids
  This project trains communities to address walkability on behalf of children and youth.

• CDOT’s Walk to School Colorado
  These tools and resources for Colorado schools and communities were designed by the Colorado Department of Transportation.  

• Federal Highway Administration Safe Routes to School Program
  The FHA's Safe Routes to School Program offers walk to school tools and resources.

• International Walk to School in the USA
  This program offers more walk to school tools and resources.  
   
• KidCommute
  KidCommute is a Colorado non-profit dedicated to promoting sustainable  
  communities through our Boltage program which encourages kids to walk and  
  bike to school. The program is active at four schools in BVSD, 2 in SVSD, and at least one school in DPS (working with Learning Landscapes) and soon in Calhan, Colo., 
  through a Colorado SRTS grant.

• National Center for Safe Routes to School
  This comprehensive website can help educators build safe routes to school.  

• Safe Routes to School National Partnership
  This organization offers additional tools and resources for building safe routes to school.  

• Safe Routes to School: A Community Assessment Tool Training Program
  This training program allows communities to assess the safety of school routes.  

• Safe Routes to School: A Transportation Legacy
  This national task force is dedicated to increasing safety and physical activity among American youth.  

School Nutrition

• Changing Nutrition Standards in Schools: The Emerging Impact on School Revenue
  This report was compiled by the Journal of School Health  

• Food Research and Action Center
  The Food Research and Action Center provides child nutrition information and resources.  

• The Food Trust’s Comprehensive School Nutrition Policy Initiative
  Look here for toolkits, lesson plans and reports for educators.  

• Kaiser Permanente’s Amazing Food Detective
  This video game lets kids solve the mysteries of unhealthy habits, created by Kaiser Permanente Pediatricians and Healthy Professionals.  

• KidsEatWell.org
  The Illinois Board of Education compiled this website of nutrition education resources.

• USDA Educator Resources
  The USDA provides comprehensive tools and resources to help schools improve their nutrition programs.