HEALTHY KIDS LEARN BETTER A Coordinated School Health Approach

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HEALTHY KIDS LEARN BETTERA Coordinated School
Health Approach
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Healthy Kids Learn Better
PartnershipVision Statement

• All youth in Oregon are healthy and successful
  learners who contribute positively to their
  communities

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Healthy Kids Learn Better PartnershipMission
Statement

• Working together to promote education health
  opportunities skills for all youth in Oregon
  by
• Assuring diverse communities are engaged in all
  planning, implementation, and evaluation
  activities
• Providing and fostering leadership for the
  development of Coordinated School Health
• Building linkages between schools and communities
  to coordinate resources, services, and policies
  that create safe, supportive, and inclusive
  environments
• Promoting effective and sustainable partnerships
  among education, health, social service and other
  organizations
• Monitoring progress through ongoing assessment
  and evaluation, resulting in data-driven decision
  making

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Healthy Kids Learn Better State-Level Structure
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Coordinated School Health Blueprint Development
Work Group

• Interagency partnership to develop a state-level
  CSH Blueprint for Action with extensive
  stakeholder input.

• Partners
• Department of Education
• Health Division
• Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
• Commission on Children and Families
• Higher Education

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Coordinated School Health External Partners Work
Group

• External Partners serve as ambassadors to the
  HKLB Partnership and are currently developing and
  implementing an awareness campaign on the
  potential for CSH to positively impact
  educational outcomes for local decision makers.

• Partners
• ACS
• OR Dairy Council
• OAHPERD/OAHE
• ORSHEC
• Native American Youth Association
• OR School Nurses Association
• Planned Parenthood
• Red Cross
• OEA
• OR Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking
• OR Poison Control
• OR Lung Association
• OR Coalition to Promote PA

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HEALTHY KIDS LEARN BETTERA Coordinated School
Health Approach
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Healthy Schools Network Advisory Group

• Advisory and board member education activities
  led by state and local school board members

• Partners
• Oregon School Boards Association
• State Board of Education
• NASBE
• NSBA

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Healthy Schools Network Advisory Group

• OSBA Annual Conference Pre-Session on School
  Health
• Recognition for districts with comprehensive
  tobacco-free schools policies
• Healthy Nutritional School Environment Lunch Box
• Regular communication and meetings

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Data and Surveillance Work Group

• Partners that guide, develop and implement the
  data and surveillance system for collecting
  information on youth risk behaviors, well-being
  indicators and the status of school health
  programs

• Partners
• Department of Education
• Health Division
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
• Oregon Research Institute
• Portland State University
• Commission on Children and Families

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Data and Surveillance System

• Oregon Healthy Teens Survey
• A single, combined survey that meets the
  requirements for YRBS and Monitoring the Future
• Proctored by ORI research associates
• Passive consent

• Expanded School Health Profiles
• A single, combined survey that meets the
  health-related data needs of ODE and its state
  agency partners.
• Expanded modules include questions on health
  services, mental health and counseling, and child
  nutrition programs

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Connections to Governors Initiatives

• Senate Bill 555
• Requires county human and health service
  agencies jointly plan and implement programs.

• Oregon Childrens Plan
• Provides proactive, comprehensive screening and
  services to all children from 0-8 years old

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Local Efforts

• CSHP local demonstration sites
• Expanded assistance to local schools and
  communities on coordinated school health and
  health education issues
• Special projects
• Training on research-based curricula and health
  education standards and assessment

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Local CSH Demonstration Sites

• HKLB staff are guiding four Comprehensive
  School Reform Demonstration schools through a
  nine-step process to develop a CSHP and examine
  its impact on educational outcomes and health in
  low performing, high poverty schools

• ODE provides each school with 10,000 to
  support the development and implementation of a
  CSHP through a site-based Healthy Kids Learn
  Better Teams.

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Local Efforts

• Expanded capacity to provide assistance to school
  districts interested in developing a CSHP
• Examples
• Development of local Healthy Kids Learn Better
  Teams
• Data-driven decision making on student health and
  well-being priorities
• Program planning and development
• Schoolwide integration of prevention messages

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Local Efforts

• Expanded capacity to provide technical
  assistance on health education issues
• Cadre of trainers to provide low cost training on
  research-based curriculum and standards and
  assessment
• Curriculum planning and selection
• Coordinated professional development series
• Regular electronic and mail communications to
  share new information and upcoming opportunities

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Special Projects Physical Activity

• Opportunities for schools to promote physical
  activity among pre-teens (9-13 year olds)
• - professional development series on the
  implementation of new PE standards
• - mini-grants to elementary and middle
  schools for assessing safe walking and
  biking routes to school.
• - marketing toolkit for promoting the
  importance of physical activity for pre- teens.

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Special Projects Tobacco Prevention

• Expanded assistance and training for school
  districts on developing and implementing
  Comprehensive School-Based Tobacco Prevention
  Programs
• - curriculum training
• regional workshops

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Early Challenges

• Staffing and capacity
• Keeping HKLB on the radar screen of agency
  heads
• Getting past the priority but syndrome with
  policymakers and administrators
• Balancing motion with progress

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Early Successes

• Improved working relationships and increased
  meaningful collaborations have enhanced services
  and opportunities for local schools and
  communities
• Combined and expanded youth data and surveillance
  system
• OSBA Pre-Session and State Board Presentation
  an early shift in attitude
• Integration of health and well-being indicators
  into required district and grant planning
  processes