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Helping students to want to make healthy choices and how to make them helps them to build life-long healthy habits. Caregivers and parents often determine students’ ability to make healthy choices at home, so it is important to us to help families learn together and foster discussions surrounding healthy choices to create healthy habits for sustainable success in health and wellness.

BHC’s ‘Healthy@Home’ resources provide sustainable, fun, and informative healthy choice ideas for parents and families. Our goal through providing these resources is to encourage students, families, and school communities to make daily healthy choices that turn into healthy habits for a lifetime! We encourage schools to share Healthy@Home resources regularly with families, by posting links on your school’s website, social media pages, or newsletters. Family education is a key role of your PTO, and BHC’s Healthy@Home resources makes health education for families easy and accessible!

Healthy@Home Lessons

Share these PDFs with your families to help them know what their children are learning at school and to reinforce their health education at home! Each PDF includes an overview of the BHC lesson students learned and health-related resources and family-oriented activities for home, such as a Read-Along, physical activity breaks, healthy celebration tips, recipes, and more!

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Dairy

Fruits & Vegetables

Healthy Snacks

Grains

Breakfast

Protein

Healthy Drinks

The Building Healthy Communities Program is undergoing an exciting transition within our broader school health initiative. We will not be accepting new applications for the elementary school program at this time; instead, we are expanding our impact through Building Healthy Communities: Step Up for School Wellness, a comprehensive K–12 program designed to support school-wide wellness initiatives across all grade levels.

The Building Healthy Communities: Step Up For School Wellness program builds on the success of our elementary model while offering:

Expanded grade-level inclusion (K–12)
Many additional healthy resources available for schools to select
Greater opportunities for school-wide engagement and impact

While we are no longer accepting new applications for the Elementary School Program, we are proud of the many schools and communities that have participated and will continue to support our alumni schools through ongoing access to program resources and materials on this site.

This transition reflects our continued commitment to supporting healthier school communities through innovative, scalable, and inclusive programming. We are grateful for the impact of the Elementary School Program and excited for what lies ahead with Step Up for School Wellness.

For New Schools:

If your school is interested in launching or strengthening a wellness initiative, we encourage you to apply for Step Up for School Wellness resources. This program is now the primary pathway for schools looking to join the Building Healthy Communities network.

APPLY HERE

For BHC Alumni Schools:
We remain committed to our alumni schools and invite you to continue utilizing the resources available on this website to sustain the healthy school environment you built during your year of BHC programing.

BHC alumni schools are also eligible to apply for additional support! Consider applying for Step Up for School Wellness resources related to mental health and social-emotional learning to expand or deepen your school wellness efforts.