Sentences with phrase «healthy schools advocacy»

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

Not exact matches

Given my own advocacy for healthy school meals, you'd think I'd be cheering the former piece and criticizing the latter.

In February, SNS worked with the Academy's Policy Initiatives and Advocacy staff in Washington, D. C.in development of a survey sent to SNS members February 21 to help assess the impact implementation of the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) had on school nutrition programs.

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive response to interventions; promote health and safety including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning.»

CAF programs include Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, Project Produce, Parent Advocacy Initiative, Healthy Breakfast for Kids, as well as The Lunch Box, an online resource that provides free step - by - step guides, tools, and recipes to help schools improve their food prSchools, Project Produce, Parent Advocacy Initiative, Healthy Breakfast for Kids, as well as The Lunch Box, an online resource that provides free step - by - step guides, tools, and recipes to help schools improve their food prschools improve their food programs.

Advocacy From attendance and behavior to academics and overall performance, research shows healthy children do better in school.

Among those helping schools deliver those messages is Action for Healthy Kids, an advocacy group representing multiple disciplines, united in the mission of improving children's health.

They learn the importance of all six parent involvement standards — communicating, parenting, student learning, volunteering, school decision making and advocacy, and collaborating with community — and the importance of sending their children to school healthy, fed, with completed homework, and ready to learn.

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive student response to interventions; promote health and safety, including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning (National Association of School Nurses [NASN], school nurses facilitate normal development and positive student response to interventions; promote health and safety, including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning (National Association of School Nurses [NASN], School Nurses [NASN], 2010).

As a parent volunteer and Vice President of Environmental Health for Sustainable Novato, her advocacy work has spawned numerous local initiatives and inspired other Marin county schools to create healthier learning environments for students.

CASP's Mission is to provide high quality educational and leadership programs, that maintain high standards of practice for school psychologists through legislative advocacy, professional development, communications, publications, ethics guidelines, and direct services to members, to enable the growth and development of the profession, and to ensure safe, healthy, and successful outcomes for the children, schools and communities we serve.