District Wellness Plan
District Committee Members:
- Sheri Cranford, Culinary Services Office Manager
- Aaron Hansen, WSD Assistant Superintendent
- Leslie DeShazer, Birth-5 Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA)
- TBD, School Counselor
- TBD, District Nurse
- TBD, Classified Staff Representative
- TBD, Student Representative
- Margaret McCarthy, Drug Free Community Program Coordinator Unite! Washougal Community Coalition and Community Partner
2023-24 Wellness Goals:
1. Improve the quality of school food by emphasizing healthy fresh foods
- Cooked on site from scratch
- Locally or regionally sourced (as much as possible)
- Presented attractively and sustainably
2. Implement a school pantry program to promote student nutrition during times when school food is not available.
- Provide staples to families in need
- Develop discreet methods of distribution
3. Partner with the Washougal Schools Foundation to increase participation in the STRIDE for Education run in May.
- TBD
- TBD
4. Host Wellness Fair for WSD Staff
- TBD
- TBD
Guiding Policies and Procedures:
- 6700 Nutrition and Physical Fitness
- 6700P Nutrition and Physical Fitness
- 5515 Workforce Secondary Traumatic Stress
Activities the committee is working toward sharing with our staff and school community
- Monthly health and wellness messages/newsletter
- Incentive-based program-SmartHealth
- SmartHealth webinars
- Stress Management workshops online
- Club 8 wellness opportunities for students after school
- District and building level staff activities open to all staff
- Increase awareness of newly designed Culinary program
Focused activities for Wellness Committee to promote annually include the following:
- Work towards promoting an aspect of health/wellness each month with an activity
- Promote SmartHealth enrollment through activities. Promote via email, etc.
- Include staff in STRIDE Event to benefit the WSD Foundation; Track participation of students & staff
- Wellness Fair 2 times a year
- Promotions of the Culinary Program to increase participation.
Community Engagement
- Pure Wellness, Ripple, Kaiser, SEBB, Smart Health, etc.
- SEBB – SmartHealth
- Washougal School District Foundation
- WA Health Care Authority
- Website content creators, Latino/a Community Event organizers