The Team Nutrition Grant Project began in 2003 with the goal to guide and assist schools to create and maintain a coordinated, comprehensive school health program. Such a program integrates a school’s child nutrition programs, with the classroom, the community, and entire school environment. A coordinated, comprehensive school health program (CSHP) can be implemented to create a healthy school environment through a “model” nutrition policy. Using the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Team Nutrition’s Changing the Scene, A Guide to Local Action, the project proposed to implement the model at a state level by forming a state level coalition of key decision makers within the school environment.

Replacing the State’s accounting system involves more than just installing new software with the same capabilities. To fully realize all the benefits of the new accounting system requires re-engineering how business is done, hence the name Business Re-Engineering Arizona. BREAZ is a statewide initiative to transform Arizona’s business processes and replace the State’s current accounting system (AFIS) and a number of agency financial systems. The project will modernize the State’s central accounting system and set the course for how the State will do business for the next 20-30 years. The State is also taking time to review and improve its current business processes. By implementing standard business processes, agencies can operate using consistent policies and procedures and support stronger internal controls and uniform skill sets.