At a glance
Before you implement food service guidelines, it is important to establish a base upon which to build. Key steps are to conduct a baseline assessment, select your setting, identify and engage leadership, and develop a work plan.
Building a foundation for food service guidelines
Although the steps to building a foundation for your food service guidelines initiative can be done in any order, it helps to start with assessing your food environment. An assessment can identify settings where applying food service guidelines would be most feasible and impactful.
Once you know which settings to support, you can invite representatives to join your food service guidelines partnership team. You will need a diverse team with a variety of expertise to successfully develop a plan for implementing food service guidelines.
On the other hand, you may already have partners on your team who can help you assess the food environment. Again, the assessment can help identify settings where food service guidelines would improve access to healthier foods. You can still invite more partners to your team as you find that additional expertise in another area would help implement your food service guidelines.
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