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Download full textTennessee Department of Education, 2023
Coordinated School Health (CSH) is a framework for addressing health in schools, connects health with learning, and improves students' health and capacity to learn through the support of schools, families, and communities working together. This model encourages healthy lifestyles, provides needed support to students, and helps to reduce the…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Health Promotion, Life Style, Academic Achievement
Scott, Andrew P.; Jones, Katie; Smole, David P.; Labonte, Marc; Aussenberg, Randy Alison; Lewis, Kevin M.; Billings, Kara Clifford; Lindsay, Bruce R.; Boyle, Conor F.; Lowry, Sean; Colello, Kirsten J.; Lynch, Karen E.; Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.; Marples, Donald J.; Davis, Patricia A.; McCarty, Maggie; Dilger, Robert Jay; Mitchell, Alison; Dortch, Cassandria; Myers, Elizabeth A.; Driessen, Grant A.; Perkins, David W.; Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.; Perl, Libby; Fernandez, Bernadette; Peterman, David Randall; Forsberg, Vanessa C.; Rosso, Ryan J.; Fountain, Joselynn H.; Sherlock, Molly F.; Gravell, Jane G.; Skinner, Rebecca R.; Hahn, Jim; Stoltzfus, Emilie; Halchin, L. Elaine; Tang, Rachel Y.; Hegji, Alexandra; Topoleski, John J.; Isaacs, Katelin P.; Whittaker, Julie M. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Since March 2020, a number of laws have been enacted to provide relief to people and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136), both enacted in March 2020; the Consolidated…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Pandemics
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2019
For Chicago to be a strong and vibrant city, it needs to invest in communities, families, and children. Access to a high-quality education and the opportunity to be healthy is key for all children to realize their full potential and contribute to a vibrant city. Studies have consistently documented the powerful connection between health and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Child Health, Access to Health Care
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Direct linkGeorge, Daniel R.; Rovniak, Liza S.; Dillon, Judy; Snyder, Gail – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Academic Health Centers and nonprofit hospitals are exploring strategies to meet Affordable Care Act mandates requiring tax-exempt institutions to address community health needs, which commonly include major chronic illnesses. We explore the implications of this regulatory landscape, describing methods that nonprofit health care institutions are…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Public Health, Nutrition, Health Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017
The School Health Policies and Practices Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. SHPPS 2016 assessed the characteristics of selected components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model: (1) health education; (2)…
Descriptors: School Policy, Health Promotion, Prevention, Health Education
Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, 2023
Each year, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) releases a list of scientific advances that represent significant progress in the field of autism research. The "2021 Summary of Advances" provides short, plain language summaries of the top research breakthroughs selected by the IACC from a pool of research articles…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research, Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2018
Schools are the ideal setting for combining state health and education goals for all children. Children and adolescents spend more time in schools than in any other environment outside of their homes. They also form foundational health habits during their school years. By emphasizing school health and wellness, state leadership can support both…
Descriptors: Child Health, Educational Policy, School Health Services, Educational Environment
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2020
The next President of the United States has an enormous responsibility--and opportunity--to provide an equitable foundation for a new generation of learners. The magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the importance of schools as community anchors that children and families rely on for much more than an education. This document…
Descriptors: Child Health, Government Role, Federal Government, Health Promotion
Brill, Michelle F. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Extension has many opportunities to promote breastfeeding, one of the most highly effective preventive measures a mother can take to protect the health of her infant and herself. This article describes how and why Cooperative Extension can and should partner with federal and state efforts to promote breastfeeding. Members of Rutgers' Family and…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Technical Assistance, Nutrition, Expertise
Gola, Alice Ann H.; Burdg, Jinee – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2018
The FNS Research Corner provides a continuing series to summarize recently completed and current research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in the area of child nutrition. Summaries of recently completed research projects and in-progress research are provided in this article.
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Program Evaluation
UNICEF, 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have far-reaching consequences for 550 million children under the age of 18. This UNICEF Child Alert examines how the disease and measures put in place to contain it are impacting the lives of children across the region, exacerbating existing threats like conflict, climate change and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Conflict, Climate
Burns, Connie S.; Schroeder, Mary M. – Journal of Extension, 2014
A modified flipped classroom model was used to present content on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) to Community Nutrition Educators (CNEs). CNEs read the DGA prior to discussions at staff meetings. The purpose of the readings and discussions was to increase knowledge of the DGA and offer strategies for applying these concepts…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Teaching Methods, Guidelines, Dietetics
Fobbs, Erima – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2015
"Promoting Student Achievement through Improved Health Policy" is a quick primer of the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] CDC's "Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child" model, which highlights 10 important areas for connecting health and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Health Promotion, Wellness, Health Education
Children Now, 2019
The 2019-20 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda for California is the comprehensive roadmap at the state level to ensure that all children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential. California has an obligation to end systemic injustices that create barriers to kids of color, as well as kids living in poverty and undocumented kids, from growing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Poverty, Early Childhood Education
van der Gaag, Jacques; Putcha, Vidya – Brookings Institution, 2013
In an earlier policy brief, "Where is the Learning? Measuring Schooling Efforts in Developing Countries," the authors drew attention to what was labeled "the global learning crisis." While tremendous progress has been made over the past couple of decades to get tens of millions of additional children to enroll in school, progress in improving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Outcome Measures, Developing Nations
