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 award critiera, along with other 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
- Healthy Lifestyles Award Application (Open March 1 - 31)