Establishing and supporting a healthy lifestyles position within your PTA signals your commitment to building healthy schools, healthy families, and healthy communities.

Get Started

• Register as an executive board member with Texas PTA within 15 days of election or appointment.
• Complete mandatory training within 30 days of election or appointment.
• Meet with the outgoing healthy lifestyles VP/chair to obtain their procedure manual and history of the role.
• Join your PTA
• Review your PTA’s Bylaws and Standing Rules (if applicable).
• Review the Basics Healthy Lifestyles Resource Guide for detailed support and best practices.
• Review the resources in the Healthy Lifestyles Toolkit, for ideas on incorporating a healthy lifestyle theme into your PTA efforts.
• Develop a Plan of Work and submit to the Executive Board for approval. 
• Sign the Confidentiality, Ethics and Conflict of Interest Agreement provided by the secretary.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an advocate for incorporating a healthy lifestyle theme into your PTA efforts.
• Serve as a liaison between your PTA and the community regarding health-related issues.
• Develop learning and engagement opportunities for everyone in the school community.
• Assess your community's needs through conversations with school staff, PTA leaders, parents, and students; consider using an online survey.
• Create a Healthy Lifestyles Team that may include your principal, PTA president, counselor, PE department, cafeteria manager, and parents.
• Network with PTA Healthy Lifestyles Leaders in your community to learn of their efforts and to collaborate on common goals.
• Learn and share information about your district’s wellness policy and ask to attend School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) meetings.
• Ask to participate in your school’s Campus Improvement Committee to provide a school health perspective.

 Resources

• Basics Programs Resource Guide: English | Spanish
• Basics Programs Quick Start Guide: English | Spanish
• View Sample Plan of Work: English | Spanish 
• Healthy Lifestyles Toolkit