Polk County Smart Options was identified by community leaders as an action, that when combined with other actions in our community, has a reasonable chance of making a difference in Healthy Eating and Active Living in our community. This is a new program in our community.

Polk County Smart Options will be a policy for local restaurants to follow in order to identify healthy menu options that can be considered Polk County Smart Options. 

The priority population for this program is all Polk county residents, and the program aims to make a difference at the policy and environmental level. Implementation will take place in local restaurants and farmer's markets.

This program will increase access and knowledge around healthy food options available to community members. Increasing access to healthy food choices has shown to make significant impacts on the Physical Activity and Nutrition focus area.

The partners for this program include:

Evaluation Plan:

We plan to evaluate the impact of Polk County Smart Options program through the use of Results-Based AccountabilityTM to monitor specific performance measures. We will be monitoring How Much, How Well and/or Better Off Performance Measures. Our evaluation activities will be tracked in the Work Plan table, above. 

Sustainability Plan:

The following is our sustainability plan for this program: 

• Sustainability Component: Increase community awareness of program and demostrate successes
  • In order to ensure this program is successful, we will communicate the need for the program to raise awareness. By raising awareness, we hope other restaurants will join as community supporters and adopt the program.