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Governor Rounds’ Healthy School Award
Recognition Program |
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Governor Mike Rounds is pleased to announce the
5th Annual Healthy School recognition award.
This award provides public schools with local
and state recognition for their leadership in
the area of school health programming including
the areas of nutrition services, health
services, health education, physical education,
counseling services, family and community
involvement and health promotion. Selected
schools will serve as models for other schools.
The recognition awards will be given to schools
at four levels: 1) elementary, 2) middle/junior
high 3) high school and 4) district-wide. The
top winners at each level will receive a banner
and a $5,000 Recognition Award.
The application for the Healthy School
recognition award will be available on February
4, 2008. The deadline for submitting
applications is April 15, 2008. Public school
superintendent/CEO, assistant superintendent,
principal or assistant principal can download a
copy of the application at
http://doe.sd.gov/oess/schoolhealth/index.asp.
If you have any questions, contact Kari Senger,
Coordinated School Health, South Dakota
Department of Education by e-mail to
kari.senger@state.sd.us
or by phone (605) 773-4257
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Get Ready for Your Spring Walking Program |
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Get ready for your spring walking programs by
registering for the South Dakota Schools Walk
program! Register online at
http://doe.sd.gov/oess/schoolhealth/sdwalks/registration/
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Schools will receive water bottles for their
participating K-2 students and wrist sweat bands
for their participating 3-6 students. For taking
the initiative to sign up their class, teachers
will receive a Coordinated School Health post-it
notepad. The Schools Walk Healthy Habits
Calendars, as well as tips and ideas for
implementing the calendars, is available at:
http://doe.sd.gov/oess/schoolhealth/sdwalks/calendar/index.asp
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Coordinated School Health in the South Dakota
Departments of Education and Health promotes the
South Dakota Schools Walk program as a means of
fighting childhood obesity by motivating young
people to increase their level of physical
activity. The idea is to get kids walking on a
daily basis!
South Dakota School’s Walk is designed for
students in K-6. However, this does not exclude
students of all ages from participating. By
taking part in the South Dakota Schools Walk
program, your school, along with others, will
work to create healthier and more physically
active communities.
For more information about the South Dakota
Schools Walk Program contact Colleen Reinert,
Coordinated School Health at the Department of
Health at 773-6189. |
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Student Health and Academic Achievement Web Page |
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The
CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH) are pleased to announce the release of
the Student Health and Academic Achievement web
page. You can access the site at
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/health_and_academics/index.htm
The
Student Health and Academic Achievement web page
highlights the strong association between the
academic success of America's youth and their
health. Included is a link to the November 2007
Journal of School Health article entitled
Coordinated School Health Programs and Academic
Achievement. The article examines evidence that
school health program interventions that fit
within the 8 components of the Coordinated
School Health Program (CSHP) model improve
academic success among students.
The
Student Health and Academic Achievement web page
will be expanded to include:
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One-page fact sheets highlighting
significant associations between health-risk
behaviors and academic grades based on YRBS
data.
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o PowerPoint slides containing graphs of all
the significant associations among
health-risk behavior variables and academic
grades based on YRBS data.
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Presentation slides and scripts on health
and academic achievement.
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South Dakota Youth Tobacco Survey |
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The
South Dakota Department of Health would like to
extend its sincere gratitude to all the schools
that participated in the survey this year! The
South Dakota Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) is a
school-based survey of middle school students,
conducted every other year, in schools across
South Dakota. The YTS is a surveillance
component of the South Dakota Tobacco Control
Program, whose mission is to protect people from
second hand smoke and reduce tobacco use in
South Dakota. The YTS was developed to provide
systematic state-wide surveillance of youth
tobacco use. It provides data that can be used
to: 1) evaluate tobacco control programs; 2)
monitor trends in youth tobacco use; and 3)
compare tobacco use among different regions
across the state.
The
data will be analyzed and results will be
available at a later date. Results from the
survey completed in 2005 are available on the
website at:
http://doh.sd.gov/Tobacco/PDF/SDYouth2005.pdf. |
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School Based Vaccination Clinics |
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The
initiative to vaccinate all children with
influenza vaccine will continue for the 2008-09
influenza season. One of the ways to increase
the uptake of influenza vaccine is to conduct
school based vaccination clinics. The SD
Department of Health would like anyone with
interest in conducting a vaccination clinic to
contact us. We may be able to offer the
traditional influenza vaccine shot as well as
the intranasal type of vaccine. We would also be
interested in which vaccine presentation you
would prefer when conducting a clinic in a
school setting. Please contact Tim Heath at
605-773-5323 or by email at
Tim.Heath@state.sd.us
for more information or to express interest. |
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