Kathy Cassels

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• Kathy Cassels
• Executive Director

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DASH Visionaries

• Education Sector
• Arlene Burden, Learning Services Vancouver School
  Board
• George Longstaff, PE Specialist Coquitlam School
  District
• Initial focus on curriculum development

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DASH Visionaries

• Community Agency Not for Profit sector
• Carol Matusicky, BC Council for the Family
• Diane Champion Smith, Kaiser Youth Foundation
• Supporting network for health professionals
  working with schools

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DASH Visionaries

• Health Promotion and Services
• Dr. Bill Mackie, Health Promotion Committee BC
  Medical Association
• Sport and Injury Prevention
• Dr. Sharon Bearpark
• Healthy Schools Program

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Comprehensive School Health

• Early model and language
• Curriculum
• Healthy School Environments
• Services for Students

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CSH Components

• Curriculum
• 1988 Sullivan Royal Commission on Education
  recommendation mandated health and guidance
  program in the province
• Establishment of a Provincial Learning for Living
  Advisory Committee
• Key achievement establishes cross sector
  membership and collaborative partnerships

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Milestone 1988 Office of Health Promotion

• OHP develops provincial Healthy Schools
  Promotional Program
• In consultation with Learning For Living Advisory
  Committee, public health staff, teachers,
  students and parents

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CSH Components

• Healthy environments
• 1988 89 a conceptual framework for a Healthy
  Schools promotional program granting awards to
  schools
• Participants included
• Capital Health Region, University of Victoria,
  Camosun College, South Vancouver Island School
  Districts

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CSH Components

• Partnerships
• Healthy Schools Program strengthens collaborative
  partnerships
• 1992 Union Boards of Health, DASH BC and School
  Districts agree to expand the Healthy Schools
  Program beyond Vancouver and Vancouver Island

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Healthy Schools Program

• 1990 97
• Roots lie in the processes that led to the Ottawa
  Charter for Health Promotion and Achieving Health
  for All A Framework for Health Promotion
• Aim to actively involve students in learn and
  practicing skills for decision making in health

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Healthy Schools Program

• Healthy Schools a Resource Guide for Teachers
• Guide reviewed by Ministry of Education Learning
  Resource Branch and distributed throughout BC

• 5 Step Healthy School Process
• Create a shared vision
• Together select a priority issue
• Develop a plan for action
• Put the plan into action
• Evaluate and celebrate

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Milestone 1991 Sharing Success Stories

• Spring 1991 Healthy Schools Bulletin
• 1992 First of several annual Provincial Living
  School Health conferences held in Naramata, BC in
  partnership with DASH BC

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Milestone 1994- 95 Healthy School Coordinator

• Part time Healthy School Coordinators are
  established to
• Conduct orientations to the Healthy School
  process
• Support school projects
• 1997 Healthy Schools transferred to the
  Ministry of Children and Families

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DASH 2002 Mission Advance CSH
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Milestones 2003 - 2006

• 2003 An Ounce of Prevention
• 2003-04 Action Schools! BC
• 2004 DASH IHA Partner in the School Food and
  Nutrition Policy Project
• 2005 Healthy Schools Forum
• Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education
  jointly consult on a Healthy School Framework
• 2005 - Joint Consortium for School Health
• The goal of the Consortium is to strengthen the
  capacities of health, education, and other
  systems and agencies in school health promotion
• Provincial School Health Coordinator

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BC Healthy School Network

• Established to address a variety of academic,
  social and emotional concerns of students through
  a comprehensive school health approach
• Cross sector collaboration between the Ministry
  of Health and Education in partnership with the
  Network of Performance Based Schools and DASH BC
• Year 1 30 schools
• Year 2 70 schools
• Year 3 115 schools

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The Future

• Healthy Living Performance Standards
• A framework to focus and monitor efforts to
  improve student health and a schools overall
  healthy environment
• Healthy School Coordinator
• Network and Community of Practice

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DASH BC Logo Retrospective
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