Health Education and Promotion Work Group

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Health Education and Promotion Work Group

• Vision is to improve the health, safety, and
  wellbeing of Kane County residents

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Health Education and Promotion Work Group

• Initial Focus of Work Group
• Needs Assessment (What is everyone doing
  already?)
• School District
• Business
• Community resources
• Faith based

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Health Education and Promotion Work Group

• Results of Needs Assessment prompted four Goals
  to work towards
• 1) Put together a Health Education Survey for
  all school districts
• 2) Formulate and distribute a Corporate
  Wellness Plan
• 3) Distribute information to Faith Groups and
  request that they communicate their wellness
  needs
• 4) Put together a Speakers Bureau List

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HEALTH EDUCATION A U46 SCHOOL DISTRICT INITIATIVE

• What schools are doing to promote health and
  wellness for staff, students and families

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The Role of Schools in Wellness Promotion

• Health Education
• Physical Education
• Nutrition Education and services
• Health services
• Environmental Health
• Health promotion for staff
• Health promotion for families and communities
• Emotional Health promotion

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STUDENT WELLNESS POLICY

• Vision statement
• The school district recognizes the positive
  relationship between good nutrition, physical
  activity, and the capacity of students to develop
  and learn. To that end, student wellness shall
  be promoted through the districts educational
  programs, activities and meal programs.

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Section 204 of Public Law 108-265

• School Wellness Policy must include
• Goals for nutrition education
• Goals for Physical Activity
• Goals for other school-based activities designed
  to promote wellness
• Nutrition guidelines for all foods available in
  school
• Guidelines for reimbursable school meals
• A plan for monitoring and implementing the
  wellness policy

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Health Education

• Curriculum Based
• Elementary
• Middle School
• High School

• Non-Curriculum Based
• Specialty speakers
• Related services
• Presentations
• Before and after school programs

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Health Curriculum cont.

• At elementary level, health is a subject but
  taught inconsistently.
• Fifth grade consistently presents human
  development.
• Sixth grade consistently presents life choices
  education.

• Middle school presents health education as a unit
  in PE in 7th and 8th grade.
• High School curriculum contains 1 semester of
  Health as a required class.
• Health Occupations is offered as an elective.

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Physical Education in schools

• Illinois law states that physical education be
  offered to students daily in all grade levels,
  shall be developmentally planned, and fosters
  development of movement skills, enhances fitness,
  increases knowledge, encourages team building
  skills and healthy lifestyle habits.

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Physical activity options

• Planned physical education classes once weekly in
  elementary level
• SPA on a daily basis inconsistent
• due to time constraints for academics.
• Daily PE class in middle and high school
• Before and after school programs offered
  involving interscholastic athletics and physical
  activity clubs
• Community based programs involving physical
  activity and health education brought into the
  schools
• Related services personnel developed physical
  activity programs for students and staff
• Website physical education instruction to
  encourage life-long physical activity choices

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Nutrition Education and Services

• Nutrition Education is provided as a
  developmentally appropriate curriculum throughout
  a students academic career
• School nurses develop nutrition lessons and
  programs that are aligned to state educational
  goals
• Community based nutrition programs brought into
  the schools as an adjunct to curriculum

• Pre-School Level
• Elementary Level
• Middle School Level
• High School Level

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Healthy Choices Program

• Certified School Nurses Team2 tracked BMIs for
  8 schools including 7,074 students
• Statistical analysis showed that 5th grade
  through 7th grade were significantly less likely
  to be normal weight

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Healthy Choices Program cont.

• School nurses in Team 2 provided nutrition
  education to students in their schools.
• Schools nurses contacted Food Services to discuss
  more nutritionally based school meals.
• School nurses provided a study of beverage
  choices for middle school students showing that
  students were just as likely to purchase water as
  soda.
• School nurses organized a Health Fair in
  collaboration with Sherman Wellness for two years
  in a row with over a thousand participants.
  Healthy Choices Week proclaimed in April 2004

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Nutrition Services

• Illinois School Lunch and Breakfast Program
• Free and Reduced Program/Reimbursable Meals
• Meals must meet the federal regulations and
  contain appropriate size/serving of
• 1 to 2 meat/meat alternatives
• Bread/grain
• 2 servings of fruit/vegetable
• Fluid milk

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Nutrition Services cont.

• Meal items must meet following criteria total
  calories from fat cannot exceed 35, total amount
  of sugar by weight does not exceed 35, total
  caloric count cannot exceed 200 for any one item.
• Beverage items include only 1)Flavored or plain
  whole, reduced (2), low fat (1) or non fat
  fluid milk, 2) Reduced fat and enriched
  alternatives to dairy, 3) Fruit and vegetable
  drinks containing 50 or more fruit/vegetable
  juices, 4) Water, 5) Fruit smoothies that contain
  less than 400 calories and no added sugar and
  made from fresh fruit or fruit drinks that
  contain 50 fruit juice

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Nutrition Services cont.

• School Wellness Policies must contain nutrition
  standards that can mirror the state food and
  beverage requirements but can be written to be
  more restrictive than state requirements.
• New legislation for banning junk foods sold in
  schools during the school day.

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Health Services U46

• 42 certified school nurses
• 22 Direct Service Nurses
• 10 Health Clerical and Secretaries
• 4 Vision and Hearing Technicians
• Health Services provides comprehensive
  adaptations for students with acute and chronic
  health concerns to promote optimal academic
  success
• Health Services maintains research based health
  promotional programs and data analysis
  utilization ti determine best practice in schools

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Environmental School Health

• Schools must maintain safe and healthy
  environments for students and staff.
• Chief Safety Officer and Plant Operations
  Department develop safety standards and do
  regular inspections to maintain health and safety
  code adherence

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Health Promotion for Staff

• Human Resources Department provides health
  insurance programs for staff
• Recent focus on Wellness Screenings provided to
  employees to promote optimal health
• Flu vaccine clinics offered yearly
• Other vaccines available to certain employees who
  may be at risk for communicable disease
• Before and After school programs created at some
  sites through Health Services Department or
  community based resources

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Health Promotion for Families

• School Based Health Clinics at four sites within
  U46 School District provide low cost, easily
  accessible health care for students and families
• Many schools provide healthy extracurricular
  activities for students and families to promote
  healthy choices
• Extracurricular organized sports programs
  provided at the secondary school level
• Health Services developed programs for students
  and families
• U46 Health Services website online provides up to
  date health information and resources for
  students and families
• Community based programs provided at school sites
  promote healthy living

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Emotional Health

• U46 School District provides Social Services
  Department and social workers at every site to
  address student needs for emotional support to
  promote academic success
• School based Health Clinics looking to provide a
  mental health component in the near future