A Couple of Things that are Working

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A Couple of Things that are Working

• Fort Worth Independent School Districts
• Coordinated Health

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Presentation to Tarrant County Medical Society
Committee

• How Through a connection with the Health
  Services Director, I was invited to speak to
  their Public Health School Advisory Committee
  
• The topic Senate Bill 530
• Audience Pediatricians, family nurse
  practitioners, Nurses from public private
  schools, Health Departments, and Medical Schools

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• Result
• Private school connection for our county SHAC
• Pediatricians very interested in fitness
  assessment, esp. weight
• Raised issues I had not thought of about parent
  response to fitness assessment
• Asked to write a piece for their newsletter
  explaining tests so doctors and nurse
  practitioners could better respond to parent
  inquiries

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Connecting with Parents in Middle School

• Using our Texas Fitness Now Grant Funds, we
  purchased pedometers for all of our 6th graders
  at the selected schools.
• Their assignment
• wear the pedometers every day-all day-including
  weekends
• log their steps in their fitness journal everyday
  in PE or Health class
• share with their parents and siblings on weekends
  and evenings-and include these in their step
  count.

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• Result
• Recent phone call from 6th grade parent
• My son dropped his pedometer getting into my
  car, and then I drove over it! Can I pay the
  replacement charge right away? He doesnt want to
  lose any days towards his step count!
• This was very exciting!