Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
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Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships is an innovative approach to preventing teen dating violence and abuse by teaching 11 to 4 year-olds about healthy relationships.
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School District Wellness Policies
February 28, 2013 | Report
A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Bridging the Gap program finds that progress to improve school district wellness policies has stalled.
Child-Directed Marketing Within and Around Fast-Food Restaurants
December 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The fast-food industry spends $660 million to market its products to children and adolescents each year and spends the most on toys for kids’ meals—$360 million for the cost of toys alone. These efforts help fast-food restaurants sell more than 1.2 ...
Sports Participation in Secondary Schools
October 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Participating in school sports is an important means to increase physical activity among adolescents. This brief examines participation during the school year by secondary school students in interscholastic sports (played against teams from other sc ...
Zoning for Healthy Food Access Varies by Community Income
April 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Zoning and land use laws allow or prohibit different types of food outlets, such as supermarkets, farmers’ markets, fast-food restaurants, and convenience stores, in a community. As such, these laws affect people’s access to healthy affordable foods ...
Can E-Gaming Be Useful for Achieving Recommended Levels of Moderate-to-Vigorous-Intensity Physical Activity in Inner-City Children?
January 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Active videogames provide an effective adjunct to traditional PE classes for reaching recommended activity levels in children. It is recommended that children engage in 60 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA) most days ...
Locating Family Mental Health Services in Shopping Malls and Schools
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
Free to Grow
January 1, 2006 | Book
Recommended Reading Evaluation of the Free to Grow Initiative: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities Executive Summary: Protecting Children from Substance Abuse Protecting Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to ...
Criteria Help Schools Evaluate Interventions for Preventing and Reducing Childhood Obesity
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Action for Healthy Kids worked with experts in education, health, physical education and nutrition to test and apply a set of evaluation criteria for the best school-based interventions that address childhood obesity.
Are Condom Availability Programs in Seattle Working to Reduce Disease?
December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Seattle Public School District 1, Seattle, conducted an evaluation of an HIV/AIDS prevention and condom-availability program at public high schools in Seattle.