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JrO1AT W® Suggested (but not limited to) <br /> strategies to consider for application <br /> Schools: <br /> • Safe Routes to School: We are partnering with schools, parents and communities so that more kids <br /> can walk and bike to school safely and easily. <br /> • Active school day: We are partnering with schools, parents, and students to encourage what is known <br /> as "Active Schools."This includes offering more recess, quality physical education, and activity breaks <br /> in the classroom, among other strategies. <br /> • Healthy school foods: We encourage partnering with schools, parents, and students to increase the <br /> availability of fruit and vegetables and decrease sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars in school <br /> lunches, breakfast programs, snacks, and food in the classrooms. <br /> • Farm to School: We can connect local farmers to schools to increase the number of local fruits and <br /> vegetables children eat during the school day while also lowering their intake of sodium, saturated fat <br /> and added sugar. <br /> Community: <br /> • Active living: We want to collaborate on making safer crosswalks, more bike paths, and more sidewalks <br /> in which will make it easier to not only get active, but to get around. <br /> • Healthy eating: We are encouraging partnerships with community members and to enhance farmers <br /> markets, as well as healthier food in vending machines and concessions, corner stores, and <br /> community gardens in order to give people more access to healthy foods, at a more affordable price. <br /> Tobacco: <br /> • Tobacco-free outdoor spaces: We encourage working with outdoor spaces around Crow Wing County <br /> to become tobacco free. <br /> • Tobacco-free campuses: We encourage working with colleges around Crow Wing County to become <br /> tobacco-free.Tobacco-free campuses role model tobacco-free living as the norm, both supporting non- <br /> tobacco users from smoking and encourage those who do smoke to quit. <br /> • Tobacco-free housing: We are encouraging working with multi-housing units around Crow Wing <br /> County to become tobacco free. <br /> • Tobacco reduction in the mental health setting: We are encouraging working with mental health <br /> workers and homes in assisting with the reduction of tobacco use and the education of tobacco <br /> cessation. <br /> Workplace Wellness: <br /> We would like to partner with businesses to help them start and build their worksite wellness programs. <br /> We can help employers who want to encourage physical activity, healthy eating, encourage breast <br /> feeding, tobacco cessation and policy support, as well as stress reduction. With this the goal is to <br /> maximize productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lower health care costs. <br /> Health care: <br /> We would like to help link with community services and state and local prevention efforts, as well as <br /> clinicians to help reduce obesity, lower tobacco use and exposure, and support breastfeeding for families. <br /> Mental Fitness: <br /> We would like to build networks throughout the county to equip citizens in achieving resilience, increase <br /> the practice of intentional choices to reduce stress and anxiety, and educate to increase the community <br /> knowledge on mental fitness so individuals can make positive choices regarding their overall health. <br /> Crow Wing Energized Healthy Communities Grant Application Form page 2 of 6 <br />