Promoting the implementation process of Power Food (‘Krachtvoer’), an educational program on healthy nutrition for prevocational secondary schools

Actively promoting the implementation process of health promotion interventions, ensuring their sufficient and appropriate use in practice, requires a planned approach. Many types of implementation strategies can be used for this purpose, selected on the basis of identified determinants of the implementation process in the specific implementation context. Several phases can be distinguished in the implementation process, namely adoption, actual use, sustainability, scaling up, and de-implementation of the intervention. This article describes which implementation strategies have been and are currently used to promote the implementation process of the educational program Power Food (Krachtvoer), an intervention on healthy nutrition for students in Dutch prevocational secondary schools. It also presents visitor data from the Krachtvoer.nu website during the 2019–2020, 2020–2021 and 2021–2022 school years. A reflection on the approach emphasizes the importance of the leading role of the cross-domain project team, the co-creation with users, and the intersectoral cooperation with the national partner network. A national (funding) policy in the Netherlands to support the sustainability of proven effective and well-implementable health promotion interventions is sorely missed.