This five-stage plan offers ideas to guide the closeout of your direct education program and can be adapted to fit your timeline and objectives. The concepts, tasks, and materials included are meant to inspire your transition planning. They should not replace guidance from your State Implementing Agency or program management.

The Partnership Agreement is a sample template that outlines roles and expectations as programs transition from direct education to teacher-led or site-led delivery. It provides a clear, customizable framework to support shared understanding between CFHL staff and partners. Sites can adapt the sample agreement to fit their specific needs, capacity, and program structure.

This supplemental handout is all about flexibility and creativity. It encourages teachers and partners to make nutrition and physical activity lessons their own.

The Sustainability Self-Assessment Tool is a sample worksheet that helps sites reflect on their readiness to continue nutrition education independently. It highlights key areas such as teacher confidence, resource access, integration into school routines, and champion support. Programs can adapt this sample tool to match their unique goals, structures, and sustainability needs.

This tool helps CFHL staff transfer ownership by offering clear, ready-to-use lessons that teachers and community partners can easily adopt and carry forward. It streamlines what they need, making it simple for them to continue delivering nutrition education independently. This sample template can be customized to reflect the specific lessons, activities, and priorities of your program or school site.

The Food Behavior Checklist (FBC) is an evaluation tool to facilitate data collection of nutrition and physical activity behaviors in adult nutrition education programs delivered in English and Spanish, reduce respondent burden for participants and can be used with participants from a wide range of literacy levels