Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness programs and strategies for communities are designed to promote healthy living and give information about how to combat health risks in a community. From obesity to diabetes to mental health issues, communities are implementing a variety of programs at the family, school and community level to educate and treat a variety of conditions. A well-informed community is a healthy community.
Resources
November 26, 2018
Promote a healthy learning environment at your school to reduce absenteeism, improve test scores and enhance student and staff productivity.
Focus Areas: Health and Wellness
November 09, 2018
Many health centers across the country are building partnerships with schools to expand access to quality care and address the powerful social, environmental, and economic conditions that unjustly influence health outcomes of low-income children and adolescents in their communities.
Source: The National Assocation of Community Health Centers
Focus Areas: Health and Wellness
October 23, 2018
Initiatives focused on improving aspects of students’ well-being in schools—such as addressing childhood obesity, preventing bullying, and restricting schools’ use of exclusionary discipline—are gaining momentum. However, such efforts are often implemented in silos, without recognition of their interconnections. To advance the common goal of improving social, health, and academic outcomes for all students, coordinated efforts that integrate multiple components of healthy school environments are needed.
Source: Child Trends
When Youth Feel Unsafe: Brief Insights on the Cognitive and Academic Effects of Exposure to Violence
February 22, 2018
This Point of View brief from the Center for Promise provides research insights on a particularly timely topic - violence in America's schools - that is impacting young people in America. Learn more about this topic by reading this brief
Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Health and Wellness
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A recent situation involving a first-grade student in the University City School District prompted teachers and administrators to consider an unconventional approach.
Rather than immediately focus on any instruction or behavior in the classroom, the district sought to provide the student and his family with basic needs – a trip to the doctor, food and toiletry items.
November 14, 2018
One major challenge to achieving a higher baseline of student health across U.S. schools? According to advocates, it’s that federal and state policymakers respond to particular moments of public crisis by passing narrow and targeted measures rather than considering the whole child.
September 05, 2018
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August 23, 2018
Historically, sex education has focused on STI and pregnancy prevention. Now, advocates say that to create a safer, healthier, and more affirmative culture for young people, we need sex ed to focus on pleasure, too.