Sentences with phrase «school health initiatives»

If you are running school health initiatives, but are looking for help articulating an overall wellness message for your school, this article — and the resources on the CATCH website — will be of particular interest to you.

School - Based Medicaid Programs — June 27, 2016 We signed a letter to CMS urging improvements to school - based Medicaid programs and better school health initiatives.

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«If corporate America wants to make a positive difference on gun violence, it should donate a portion of its profits to mental health treatments and school safety initiatives.

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

He added that he would ask for $ 500 million in mental - health and school - safety initiatives, and he called for a law - enforcement officer in every public school and for mandatory «active - shooter training» for students and faculty.

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

Williams is responsible for facilitating the establishment of numerous statewide and community change initiatives the areas of budget and tax policy, after school programs, older youth transitioning from foster care, poverty alleviation, mental and behavioral health, and neighborhood revitalization.

It put millions of dollars toward school safety and mental health initiatives, though it included a controversial, voluntary program to arm some school employees.

In Bolivia, I saw how sponsorship money has funded everything from guinea pig farms, to after - school programs, to hearing aids, to irrigation systems, to marriage counseling, to maternal health initiatives, to alcoholism support groups, to dams.

Other CIA initiatives have further enhanced the college's position of leadership on these vital issues, including Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives ®, a continuing medical education (CME) conference co-presented by the CIA and the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bHealth; and Menus of Change ®, a ground - breaking leadership initiative launched in 2012 by the CIA in collaboration with select partners who are working to create a long - term, practical vision for the integration of optimal nutrition and public health, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and bhealth, environmental stewardship and restoration, and social responsibility concerns within the foodservice sector and beyond.

The initiative launched at Carlisle College on 19 January, bringing together Carlisle & Cumbria's public health leads, school children and young people pledging to work together to tackle the health crisis brought on by too much sugar.

We create, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that improve health, attendance, academic achievement and raise whole - school standards, equipping all young people with skills for life.

In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

The teenagers leading the initiative work under the supervision of health care professionals and have been giving presentations in several elementary and middle schools in the Houston area.

I tried talking to the teachers and contacting the school's wellness committee but the health initiatives were not high on the principal's list of priorities.

To promote the prevention of, recognition of, and appropriate responses to TBI, CDC has developed the Heads Up initiative, a program that provides concussion and mild TBI education to specific audiences such as health - care providers, coaches, athletic trainers, school nurses, teachers, counselors, parents, and student athletes.

First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition - tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

How It Works: Grassroots Student - led Initiatives Daye is on a student school health advisory committee whose members are from schools participating in the Healthy Schools Pschools participating in the Healthy Schools PSchools Program.

Students at Davis Drive Middle School in Cary are helping the sick and wounded as part of a global health initiative.

Healthy Schools BC Regional Grants aim to build regional capacity amongst health, education and community partners to collaboratively work through new approaches and designs for learning (such as the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well - being.

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She has helped with a number of health and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school commhealth and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school commHealth committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school community.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

It is for these reasons, and in accordance with our Core Values in which we pledge to «support and encourage collaboration with professionals in related fields within medicine, health and education to promote sleep health and sleep safety from birth to adulthood among families and the general public», that we endorse the initiative and efforts of Start School Later.

The White House is set to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide despite uncertainties over how those salad bars might be treated by local health inspectors and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that could prove a major impediment.

The state - funded initiative, first announced last year and focused on a 46.5 - square - mile area of central Brooklyn, funds schools, housing, health care, jobs and more.

Michelle Paterson, for instance, used her background in health care to spearhead fitness and healthy food initiatives in state schools, while Spitzer's wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, founded Children for Children, a kids» volunteering organization.

Governor Cuomo launched the NYS Community Schools initiative in 2013, a statewide program that is transforming schools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation seSchools initiative in 2013, a statewide program that is transforming schools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation seschools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation services.

Buffalo School Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash says the district will make its facilities available to Erie County Health officials for testing and education initiatives.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

That's why the health department promotes Vision Zero, de Blasio's transportation initiative, believing that if the streets were safer, then more kids will walk or bike to school, and that can help fight obesity.

Here is Mayor de Blasio's full Q&A, featuring snow prep and the de Blasio family shoveling arrangements, the mayor's pre - K / middle school program initiative and the governor's competing proposal, Health & Hospitals Corporation challenges, the Rockaway ferry and boardwalk and more.

«I was covering up (the story) because I didn't want the school's name to come up on the radio, its just a new school and I am trying to protect the image of the school, that's all, and I know I have already taken initiative of it, definitely the ministry of health will come out whether the allegation is true or not.

The initiative, which has so far cost $ 386 million, centers on equipping schools with resources to better deal with students» needs outside of the classroom, such as medical and mental health services.

President of the YPI, Akosua Ntiriwaa Anti, who together with some members of the group officially handed over the toilet facility to the school, told Citi News the initiative was to help eliminate open defecation to improve health and hygiene among students.

The budget also includes money for several education innovations championed by the governor, among them $ 15 million for Community Learning Schools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seSchools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seschools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other services.

In addition to vision services, the center will offer medical, dental and mental health services to area public school students as part of the UFT's Community Learning Schools initiative.

The authors note that public health initiatives that could help make the overall environment healthier include restricting the sale of non-nutritious foods in and around schools; menu labeling and providing incentives for food stores to build outlets in local food deserts; creating safe spaces for physical activity that are monitored to reduce the likelihood of crime; and maintaining smoke - free restaurants and public spaces, among others.

However, all too often initiatives are «small and homegrown or based in individual departments,» says Ingram, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

There Salaeha managed committees and interest groups related to school health and infectious diseases, orchestrated state - wide educational programming, and recruited and trained pediatricians and allied healthcare providers to engage in policy initiatives related to pediatric health.

While most initiatives are focused on sequencing patient genomes, Ken Mandl, Isaac Kohane, and Joshua Mandel of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School argue that an individual's genetic information could be put to even better use if it was linked to app - fueled, electronic health record systems.

AllTrials is an international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for Evidence - based Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science and is being led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.

Launched in 2003 by Sid Lerner, Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, working in collaboration with the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

First Lady Michelle Obama is expected to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition - tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.

Our fitness and nutrition panelists liked what they saw, too, but the integration of innovative health initiatives is what put this lively school into the top 10.

That's why, as part of our America's Healthiest 100 Days initiative, Health is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to make schools healthier places.

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Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies lambasted the president's proposal to eliminate funding for long - standing programs such as Upward Bound and vocational education to make room for a high school improvement initiative and new mathematics and science programs.

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