Sign up for the Blue Butterfly campaign from the Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) to receive educational updates, and action alerts that will help you create a healthier home environment for children. 

http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/stud_serv/health_committee/
The Comprehensive School Health Committee has unveiled a new website to provide parents and staff members with information on health and wellness issues. The Comprehensive School Health Committee is a group that operates under the auspices of the Arlington Public Schools. Chaired by Alvin Crawley, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, the committee includes representatives from various Arlington school departments, the Employee Assistance Program, and the Arlington County School Health Bureau, as well as parents. The committee meets six to eight times a year and reports to the APS’s Student Health Advisory Board. The committee members drafted the county’s wellness policy that the School Board adopted in 2006.

http://www.parentsagainstjunkfood.org/index.html
Parents Against Junk Food is a nonprofit organization with a simple mission: Stop the Sale of Junk Food in America's Schools.  We are devoted to eliminating junk food from our public school system. No sodas. No candy bars. No chips. No processed lunch or foods of minimal nutritional value. Let’s ask our public schools to feed both body and mind properly, to take seriously their role as guardians of our children’s health and welfare. It is time to take the corporate profit out of school lunches and replace it with common sense, good nutrition, and the love and care that our children surely deserve.

http://www.healthyvirginians.virginia.gov/Students/index.cfm
The Healthy Virginians initiative was launched in part because schools must play an active role in addressing this epidemic. Creating a healthy school environment, one where learning is supported by good nutrition and increased physical activity, is essential to the success of Virginia’s students.

Healthy Virginians tackles these issues with two programs aimed at fostering better nutritional and physical environments for students.

http://www.healthyschools.org/newsslice.html
An online news service operated by Healthy Schools Network, Inc., to promote healthier students, personnel, school facilities, and communities.

http://www.arlingtonenvironment.org/programs/enviroed/article.htm
An article on some efforts in Arlington to "rediscover the schoolyard" from our friends at Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment.

http://www.parentsaction.org
Formerly the I Am Your Child Foundation, this website, developed by the actor Rob Reiner, focuses on information of interest to parents and currently features materials on health and wellness

http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov
Information on We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition), the National Institutes of Health's national public education program to encourage healthy eating, increase physical activity, and reduce sedentary time in children

ArlingtonHealthyKids listserv
To visit the ArlingtonHealthyKids list, go to http://www.yahoo.com, then click on Groups. If you are already a member of Yahoo and have already subscribed to the listserv, it should ask for your ID and password, then you can go to "My Groups" and find all of our past postings and other helpful links. If you aren't yet a subscriber of the listserv, you can subscribe by sending an email to ArlingtonHealthyKids-subscribe@yahoogroups.com with your affiliation to Arlington listed in the subject line (e.g. "parent at Ashlawn"). If you aren't already a member of Yahoo, you can join on line. You can list two email addresses when joining. Any Yahoo listservs that have you as subscribers pop up when you log in.

www.commercialalert.org
This organization’s motto is “protecting communities from commercialism,” and many of its activities are geared toward schools, including providing information and guidance on keeping junk food out of public schools.

http://www.naturalovens.com/Better_Health/Schools/index.php?PHPSESSID=77
Natural Ovens, the company featured in Supersize Me, offers the Roadmap to Healthy Foods in Schools. The Roadmap is a packet that will help you make a change to healthy and nutritious foods in your school. The packet also includes the 14-minute video that explains the lunch program in the Appleton, WI Alternative High School.