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Jonathan Langner; Krista Langston; Ally Mrachek; Bonnie Faitak; Pamela Martin; Alexa Cueto; Jennifer L. Clampitt; Christopher R. Long; Amy Bartow; Susan Bodey; Pearl A. McElfish – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Nutrition plays a vital role in children's physical and emotional health. More than half of school age children's calories are provided in the school food environment, making school interventions an opportunity to address child nutrition. Methods: The Creating Health Environments for Schools (CHEFS) program is designed to leverage…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Public Schools, Dining Facilities
Afterschool Alliance, 2025
Physical activity and healthy eating are instrumental to a child's overall healthy development, resulting in a number of positive outcomes, like better academic performance and lower risk of depression. Yet, most young people are not meeting the recommended daily amount of physical activity, are not eating enough vegetables or fruits, and are…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior, Eating Habits, Child Development
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Valeria Cavioni; Luisa Broli; Ilaria Grazzani – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2024
The importance of enhancing social and emotional skills in educational settings has gained prominence, with many countries and organizations embracing the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) framework to equip individuals with the tools needed for shaping a self-identity, emotional regulation, goal achievement, empathy, nurturing relationships,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Guidelines, Educational Policy, Cross Cultural Studies
Kristin Geiser; Elena Elliott; Derric Heck; Kristen Jackson – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2022
Redwood City School District (RCSD) has a long history of attending to the needs of its students and their families, and it has responded to the current incidence of mental health challenges among youth by setting a goal that by June 2024, every student will receive "appropriate social-emotional supports designed to meet their needs. The plan…
Descriptors: School Districts, Mental Health, Health Services, Social Emotional Learning
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Wolf, Lesley; Vigna, Abra J.; Inzeo, Paula Tran; Ceraso, Marion; Wolff, Tom – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Policy, systems, and environmental change are now widely accepted as critical to sustaining improvements in community health. Evidence suggests that such systems-level change is most effective when driven by community-based partnerships. Yet, after more than three decades of building community-based partnership work, health inequities have…
Descriptors: Public Health, Community Involvement, Social Differences, Case Studies
Kendziora, Kimberly; Mack, Amy R.; Jones, Wehmah; Pate, William E., II – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2018
Schools can work toward achieving safe, positive environments by integrating a behavioral support framework for students with a systematic approach to identifying students in need of mental health services. This study of the U.S. Department of Education's School Climate Transformation Grant (SCTG) program examined how participating states and…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Grants, Mental Health
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2018
The Now is the Time initiative, introduced following the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, includes among its goals making schools safer and increasing access to mental health services. To address these aims, the U.S. Department of Education launched its School Climate Transformation Grant (SCTG) program, which aims to promote more…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Grants, Mental Health
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Schober, Daniel J.; Carpenter, Leah; Currie, Venita; Yaroch, Amy L. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: The purpose of this evaluation was to examine the effects of the LiveWell@School Food Initiative (LW@SFI), a Colorado-based childhood obesity prevention program that partners with school districts to enable them to serve more scratch cooked foods through culinary training, action planning, and equipment grants. Methods: This evaluation…
Descriptors: Food, Health Behavior, Cooking Instruction, School Districts
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Liu, Chieh-Hsing; Chang, Fong-Ching; Liao, Li-Ling; Niu, Yu-Zhen; Cheng, Chi-Chia; Shih, Shu-Fang; Chang, Tzu-Chau; Chou, Hsin-Pei – Health Education Research, 2015
In 2011, the Taiwan government expanded its support of school-district/university partnership programs that promote the implementation of the evidenced-based Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program. This study examined whether expanding the support for this initiative was effective in advancing HPS implementation, perceived HPS impact and perceived…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Foreign Countries, School Districts, Partnerships in Education
Adams, Caralee – Instructor, 2012
After a decade of budget cutbacks for physical education, teachers have noticed a negative impact on their students' academic performance. And they're doing something about it. The author discusses how teachers and parents are launching programs to get kids on their feet and back into shape.
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Parent Participation, Comprehensive School Health Education
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Griebler, Ursula; Nowak, Peter – Health Education, 2012
Purpose: Participation is a core value for health promoting schools. Student participation at schools is often implemented in various forms of councils. The aims of this article are to summarise the effects of student participation in student councils, to show who benefits most and to discuss characteristics that make student councils effective.…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Student Participation, Student Government, Social Environment
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Nagler, Eve M.; Pednekar, Mangesh S.; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula; Sinha, Dhirendra N.; Aghi, Mira B.; Pischke, Claudia R.; Ebbeling, Cara B.; Lando, Harry A.; Gupta, Prakash C.; Sorensen, Glorian C. – Health Education Research, 2013
This article provides a theory-based, step-by-step approach to intervention development and illustrates its application in India to design an intervention to promote tobacco-use cessation among school personnel in Bihar. We employed a five-step approach to develop the intervention using the Social Contextual Model of Health Behavior Change (SCM)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Behavior Change, Smoking
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Helfrich, Christine M.; Fetsch, Robert J.; Benavente, Janet C. – Journal of Extension, 2011
The prevalence of overweight children and adults has been increasing steadily over the past three decades. Behaviors related to diet and nutrition are often established in early childhood. Toddlers most often develop healthy eating habits through parent modeling. Due to the steady increase in obesity in children, there is a clear need for…
Descriptors: Obesity, Nutrition, Child Rearing, Eating Habits
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Sonn, Brenda; Santens, Anneleen; Ravau, Sarah – Perspectives in Education, 2011
The participation of learners in school life and learner voice is important for learner development and the implementation of school interventions. In this paper we argue that learner participation and learner voice in school-community interventions contribute to learners' development of a critical consciousness and to their understanding of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Drug Abuse, Participatory Research
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Buijs, Goof J. – European Journal of Education, 2009
Education and health have shared interests. Unifying these allows schools to become better places to enjoy learning, teaching and working. Health promoting schools have shown evidence of improving the health and well-being of the whole school community. At the European level, the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) network is one of the most…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Educational Indicators
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