Let's Go! / 5-2-1-0 Goes to School                           Overview

Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 Goes to School is a program aimed at increasing healthy eating and physical activity in

the school environment. The program endorses the “5-2-1-0” message, which emphasizes the importance of:

                                  


Through use of the Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 Goes to School framework, schools, teachers, nutrition programs, and parents can create a healthier school environment. Listed below are 10 key strategies that can be used individually or collectively in schools to address the policies, practices, and environments that influence healthy lifestyle behaviors.


10 Strategies for Success:

  1. Encourage healthy choices for snacks and celebrations.
  2. Participate in local, state, or national initiatives that promote physical activity and healthy eating.
  3. Include community organizations in wellness promotion.             
  4. Involve and educate families in initiatives that promote physical activity and healthy eating.
  5. Encourage water and low fat milk instead of sugar-sweetened drinks.
  6. Discourage the use of food as a reward; use physical activity as a reward.
  7. Incorporate physical activity into the school day.
  8. Develop a 5-2-1-0 friendly staff wellness program.
  9. Collaborate with School Nutrition Program.
  10. Implement or strengthen a wellness policy that supports the 5-2-1-0 strategies.

Schools participate on a voluntary basis. Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 Goes to School staff works individually with schools to help them choose strategies that directly relate to the schools needs. In the first year, we generally recommend that schools choose 1-3 strategies to work on. Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 Goes to School provides the resources to implement the strategies.

In addition to support from the Founding Partners, Let's Go! also receives significant support for the 5-2-1-0 Goes To School program from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation as a part of their Growing up Healthy initiative. This message is also funded in party by the Mattina R. Proctor Foundation and The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center.

Please refer to the 5-2-1-0 Goes to School Flowchart for more details how schools work with 5-2-1-0 Goes to School. For more information about 5-2-1-0 Goes to School, please contact Rick Fortier via phone at (207) 662-6472, or by email at fortir1@mmc.org.

Where is 5-2-1-0?

5210 Goes to School is being use in increasingly more places across the State. Other states have even started using our model. Check out the maps below for pinpoints of where 5210 Goes to School is being used:

Where is 5210? Maine Map

Where is 5210? National Map

 

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