This report from the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education, and released by the White House, outlines ten strategies to promote health and reduce obesity through lifelong participation in enjoyable and safe physical activity and sports. Included is a bibliography and appendices of helpful materials.
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CHHCS is a nonpartisan resource center at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. CHHCS builds on a 20-year commitment to achieve better health outcomes for children and adolescents through school-connected health programs and services. This web site combines information on the core issues that students, young and old, bring to school with guidance on organizational and financing challenges that health and education officials confront in building effective school health services and health promotion programs. Along the way the site also provides updates on other key issues such as the health needs of immigrant and refugee children, school drug testing, children’s health insurance, school lunches, HPV vaccinations, eating disorders, and scoliosis screening.
http://www.healthinschools.org/
The child nutrition programs work individually and in concert to provide a nutritional safety net for children and together account for one-quarter of USDA's domestic food and nutrition assistance outlays.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/ChildNutrition/
The CDC’s Healthy Youth! Website contains a variety of resources on school-health, health topics, data & statistics and information on funded partners.
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/
The National Association of School Nurses supports the health and educational success of children and youth by developing and providing leadership to advance school nursing practice by specialized registered nurses.
http://www.nasn.org/
The RealBenefits web-based application performs very sophisticated and accurate eligibility screening for state and national benefit programs.
http://www.realbenefits.org/wv/index.php
This publication provides a brief overview of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's School-Based Health Care Policy Program.
http://www.schoolbasedhealthcare.org/
The School Health Index (SHI) is a school's self-assessment tool, and it should not be used to compare schools or evaluate the staff. There is no such thing as a passing grade on the SHI, but rather the scores should be used only to help understand the school's strengths and weaknesses and to develop an action plan for improving the health policies and programs.
https://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/shi/default.aspx
The AAP Committee on School Health was established soon after the Academy began in the mid-1930s. For nearly 75 years, the Committee on School Health served as the authority on matters of school health and was responsible for developing the Academy’s early policy on related matters. These policies addressed a wide range of issues affecting pediatricians and schools including health and illness management issues as they relate to the school and to the child’s educational potential, as well as the pediatrician’s role in the school setting. The Section on School Health was founded in 1987 to support its members, general pediatricians and other pediatric health care professionals in their work to improve the care of children in school. The Section worked closely with the Committee on initiatives to provide support and education for physicians working in or with schools on various issues. Each year, the Section offered enlightening educational programs at the AAP annual meetings and met to discuss and develop new ideas to improve the care of children during the school day.
http://www.aap.org/sections/schoolhealth/
The Search Institute provides resources on how to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 Developmental Assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
http://www.search-institute.org/
Today SIECUS continues its fight for comprehensive sexuality education and sexual health promotion. By giving families, educators, and policymakers access to fact-based sexuality information through publications, websites, trainings, and myriad other resources, SIECUS is keeping Dr. Calderone’s vision a reality right now—and well into the future.
http://www.siecus.org/
VERB It's what you do is a national, multicultural, social marketing campaign coordinated by CDC. Its mission is to increase and maintain physical activity among tweens (youth age 9-13). The website is filled with activities and resources for parents, teachers, organizations, and students.
http://www.cdc.gov/youthcampaign/index.htm
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