TOOLS FOR CHANGE

Assess your policies and programs and learn how to improve them.

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My policy assessment

Getting started

The first step is to gather all of your policies and have them in front of you so you can assess them. These policies can be found in program documents such as those listed below. Check off the documents your program has?

Getting Started

  • Tip: Policies are usually found in family or staff handbooks (formal policies) or scattered throughout newsletters and flyers given to families, training materials for staff, or schedules and menus (informal policies). While informal policies are helpful for reinforcing and communicating formal policies and recommended practices, formal policies are especially important because they can provide a “last word” on a particular subject.

 

This work and the Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HPRC) is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1U48DP001946 and U48DP006376), including the Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network, as well as support from the Donald and Sue Pritzker Nutrition and Fitness Initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (#66284). The findings and conclusions are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other funders.

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