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Table 1 It's Your Move Action Plan outline

From: The process evaluation of It's Your Move!, an Australian adolescent community-based obesity prevention project

Objectives

Key Strategies

1. To build the capacity of families, schools, and community organisations to promote healthy eating and physical activity

Identify resources

Develop and maintain the necessary

structures and relationships

Provide ongoing training for students, staff & others

Develop the programs, policies & activities

2. To achieve a high awareness of the projects key social marketing messages

Develop and implement a social marketing plan

3. To evaluate the process, impact and outcomes of the It's Your Move! Project

Formative evaluation

Process evaluation

Impact and outcome evaluation

Dissemination

4. To significantly decrease the consumption of high sugar drinks and to promote the consumption of water

School canteen/vending machine policies

Curriculum

Parent information

5. To significantly increase the proportion of young people eating breakfast

Promote time management skills for young people

Parent information and motivation

6. To significantly increase fruit and vegetable consumption

Canteen availability/promoting/pricing of fruit and vegetables

Programs and activities

Parent information on fruit and vegetables

7. To significantly increase the healthiness of school food

School food policies

Canteens (availability, promotion, pricing)

8. To significantly increase active transport

Parent information

School Policies (drop-off zones etc)

9. To significantly increase participation in organised sports and other active recreation

Parent education (support, role models)

School policies on participation

Change school rules/systems to support facility/equipment use

Partnership programs with clubs

10. To create an acceptance of different healthy body sizes/shapes and decrease episodes of inappropriate dieting

Develop social marketing messages with students to promote healthy bodies in all

shapes and sizes, and discourage inappropriate 'dieting' practices

Curriculum integration