November 7, 2012
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The Healthy Schools Program provides technical assistance to help schools engage administrators, teachers, parents and vendors in increasing access to physical activity and healthier foods for students and staff.
October 17, 2008
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest analyzed the economic impact of school vending machine contracts and identified alternative fund-raising methods that do not compromise student health.
October 1, 2004
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The National Dairy Council developed the Healthy School Heroes Awards, through which 27 individuals received public recognition for exemplary work to create health-promoting schools in 2002.
November 19, 2012
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The Connecting With Care project of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention demonstrated that it was economically feasible to bring full-time, mental-health clinicians to schools in the low-income Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Roxbury.
November 22, 2011
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The Princeton Center for Leadership Training partnered with 13 New Jersey high schools to implement Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention curriculum, as part of the New Jersey Health Initiatives program.
November 21, 2011
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Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
November 4, 2011
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The Louisiana Public Health Institute set up and maintained an electronic health information management system in 10 school-based health centers in Greater New Orleans.
October 8, 2010
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The The Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine developed a toolkit and provided training to help raise awareness and educate communities on combating childhood obesity.
December 22, 2008
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In response to dramatic increases in the number of Arkansas children and adolescents who are overweight or at risk for overweight, the Arkansas legislature passed Arkansas Act 1220 of 2003 to Combat Obesity.
March 25, 2013
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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.