Not exact matches
Guest Writer - Merilee Kern Children's
health advocate,
health industry veteran and two -
time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and
educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids.»
oh and I'm a highly qualified
educator with experience of
health and education from birth to adult including special needs, with 17 years full
time experience, now at home on maternity leave and thinking of giving up my very well paid and highly skilled job to raise my 9 month old twins who are already starting to walk.
WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Board of
Health wants to recognize volunteers whose time and talents this past year made outstanding contributions to public health in Westchester, and encourages community leaders, educators, healt
Health wants to recognize volunteers whose
time and talents this past year made outstanding contributions to public
health in Westchester, and encourages community leaders, educators, healt
health in Westchester, and encourages community leaders,
educators,
healthhealth prof
As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full -
time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas:
health and wellness,
educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning
time, parent supports and community outreach.
Dr. Shaver also spends her
time as an active volunteer, working with the American Red Cross, and the Peace Corps, including four years served in the Central African Republic as a public
health educator.
At the same
time it propelled me into a Masters degree and my true calling as a hormone
health educator.
For almost 20 years ERIC has trained
health and education staff to understand and treat children's bowel and bladder problems, but for the first
time the charity is launching a training day designed solely for
educators.
As a recent New York
Times article noted, «Today, you'd be hard - pressed to find a
health professional, a sleep scientist, or
educator who would defend starting high school in the 7 a.m. hour, now the norm for many U.S. high schools, as good for physical or mental
health, safety, or learning.»
«So many
times all this falls on the schools or the church or the home,» Linda Sloan, a Charlotte
health educator, told members of the National Association of Pupil Personnel Administrators.
My surveys of thousands of mental
health professionals and
educators show that their own children at home are four
times more likely to be hit daily by a sibling than by another child in school.
The rules define good cause as: a serious illness or
health condition of the
educator or an
educator's family member; the
educator's relocation to a new city following the change in employer of the
educator's spouse or partner; or a change in the
educator's «family needs» that require the
educator to relocate or «devote more
time than allowed by current employment.»
6 At the same
time, however, the 2015 National Survey of Student Engagement reported that students who were enrolled in
educator preparation courses rated the challenge level of their courses higher than any group other than those preparing for
health professions.7 This demonstrates a misalignment between high - achieving undergraduate students and students in teacher preparation programs and a disconnect between their respective views of the rigor of teacher training.
They are: integrated student supports that include
health care and other social services, expanded learning
time and opportunities, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership and practices — both among
educators and between
educators and family and community partners.
They help students manage their
health conditions and address many of the home and social factors other providers and
educators may not realize are issues or have the
time to address.
Our team consists of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, assistants and
educators that volunteer their
time and expertise to set up and run our Animal
Health Care Clinics.
If you know that joining the global community of Certified Chopra Center
educators is right for you, you may sign up for the Certification Program, Enrichment Program, and Perfect
Health at the same
time.
Before becoming a full -
time educator, Dr. Harrison worked for over 20 years in the
health care field as an administrator.
Her professional experiences include serving as the state safe aging coordinator for the department of public
health, various positions as a campus
health educator, and currently she teaches full
time in the department of
health promotion at Eastern Kentucky University.
Allocating
time to learn, think, plan and discuss together helps
educators participating in KidsMatter to better understand mental
health and wellbeing and then decide what actions will make a difference in their contexts.
I saw this happen first - hand in high school through my
time as a peer sexual
health educator with Planned Parenthood.
And so having a mental
health diagnosis, let's take depression for example, will help
educators and families get together and understand that the child is feeling really flat, not motivated and sad a lot of the
time.
On Wednesday November 11th, 2015 we joined KidsMatter Facilitator Kerry Bidwell, Lyn O'Grady and Kathy Hogan and explored how becoming concerned about a child's mental
health can happen quickly or develop over
time and what
educators can do to provide valuable insights and feedback to carers, documentation and further links with
health and community professionals.
ecoming concerned about a child's mental
health can happen quickly or develop over
time and what
educators can do to provide valuable insights and feedback to carers, documentation and further links with
health and community professionals.
Our expert
educators can provide one -
time presentations or a series of presentations to your group on a variety of topics in an effort to encourage lifelong
health.
It has been tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of professionals who serve children and families including child welfare workers, homelessness services providers, music and movement therapists, early childhood
educators, home vistors, behavioral
health case managers and out of school
time providers.
Debbie Barr is a speaker,
health educator, and the author of multiple books, including Keeping Love Alive As Memory Fades (coauthored with New York
Times bestselling author Gary Chapman).
Parent
educators may have a difficult
time maintaining healthy boundaries when working with families under stress; we too, may be coping with stress and / or mental
health issues that become acute during the winter months.
Diana Kamila, is a certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training Consultant who has served as a long -
time educator, administrator and Senior Teacher at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine,
Health Care and Society (CFM) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester Massachusetts.