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Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity

Working with communities to improve nutrition and physical activity and advance health equity.

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Landmark Center/401 Park 
401 Park Drive 
4th floor West 
Boston, MA 02215 

Resources

Browse resources related to our key priority areas — healthy eating, physical activity, drinking water, sugary drinks, and unhealthy food and beverage marketing — grouped by setting: schools, early care and out-of-school time, and communities. 

Featured Resources

Eat Well & Keep Moving: An Interdisciplinary Elementary Curriculum Nutrition and Physical Activity (Third Edition)

Designed for fourth & fifth grade students, this school-based program equips children with the knowledge, skills, and supportive environment they need to lead healthier lives.

Out-of-School Nutrition & Physical Activity (OSNAP) Initiative Implementation Guide

This guide is designed to help organizations that serve children implement OSNAP, a program designed to improve physical activity and nutrition practices and policies. 

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Curricula & Trainings

Fact Sheets

Tools & Guides

  • 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. 

Research Briefs & Reports

Books & Book Chapters

Curricula & Trainings

Fact Sheets

Tools & Guides

  • OSNAP Daily Practice Assessment Tool 
    This form can help out-of-school/afterschool program staff see where their program is currently at regarding the Out-of-School Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative (OSNAP) standards. This form will help identify areas an organization can take action on to improve the health of kids. 
  • OSNAP Policy Self-Assessment Tool 
    This self-assessment tool can help you keep track of your program’s policies for nutrition, physical activity, and screen time. You can use this tool for two purposes. First, the tool can help you identify what policies you already have that meet your goals as well as what policies you may want to write. Second, the tool can you help you see where your policies are, and may help point out where a more formal policy might be needed. 
  • OSNAP 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 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 Implementation Guide 
    This guide is designed to help organizations that serve children implement OSNAP, a program designed to improve physical activity and nutrition practices and policies. 
  • OSNAP 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. 

Research Briefs & Reports

Research Briefs & Reports

Fact Sheets

Tools & Guides

  • CHOICES Strategy Profiles 
    These profiles describe the estimated benefits, activities, resources, and leadership needed to implement a variety of strategies to improve child health, which can be useful for planning and prioritization purposes. 

Books & Book Chapters