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 News, Tips and Ideas

•  Looking for Data to Support Your School Wellness Activities?
  Youth Risk Behavior data is available at your fingertips! 
• Healthy Kids are Successful Learners 
  Making the Argument for Health in School Improvement
• New Year, New Opportunities: Energizing Your School Wellness Council
  In the excitement and rush of the start and first few months of school, it may feel difficult to find time to gather your school wellness council. However, thinking through opportunities as school begins will help you get started on your Healthy Schools Program Action Plan.
• Working on Wellness: Finding Funding
  The current economic climate has led to numerous cuts in family and school budgets. How can schools trying to do what is right for students, staff and families avoid cuts to health and wellness programs and activities?
• Schools as Places for Community Physical Activity
  Joint Use policies help connect school facilities to larger community.
• Measuring Student BMI
  Important issues to consider before you start measuring student BMI at your school.
• Cupcakes to Carrots: Getting Input from Families
  The strength and success of many school programs and policies can be related to the support they receive from families. 
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Webinars

• The Power of a Culturally Diverse School Council: Successes in Implementing School Change 
  This webinar provides ideas for successful school wellness councils with diverse membership including active participation from students and community members.
• Sustaining Your Wellness Efforts: A New Look at Policy and Systems
• Facilitating Meetings: Effective School Wellness Councils
• Engaging Families in School Health and Wellness: Making School Wellness Councils “Family Friendly”
• Taking Action – Policy and Systems
  This recorded Webinar provides an overview of Policy and Systems, helps you identify action steps based on best-practices, provides tips for implementation and/or proven ways to spend (or request) grant funding based on best-practices, and identifies resources to help you along the way.
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Success Story

Creating a Healthy School is “Important Work, Not More Work”
Carson City High School - Carson City, Nevada
 “What we really liked about the Healthy Schools Program is that it allows you to look at the whole school, and not just one department,” said Erin Been, health and physical education teacher at Carson City High School.

Families Embrace Healthy Changes at School and Home 
East San Jose Elementary School - Albuquerque, New Mexico  
East San Jose Elementary School knows that when parents are involved in their children’s education, everyone benefits. Students with involved parents are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in more advanced programs, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior and adapt well to school. Including and engaging parents on school wellness councils also results in better outcomes as parents feel empowered to help make healthy changes in the school environment. 

School Recognizes Importance of Including Community
Lotts Creek Community School - Knott County, KentuckyIn the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky, where higher than average incidences of obesity and diabetes prevail, a new attitude towards wellness is starting to emerge thanks to the Lotts Creek Community School wellness program.

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