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Coordinated School Health...The Real Reform (Powerpoint Presentation) by Pat Cooper, Ed.D., 2007 Coordinated School Health Conference

CDC video: Encourages people to cough and sneeze according to the infection control guidelines.

Empowering Youth
A manual for use in after school programs and classrooms with youth 11-18 years old. It contains current nutrition and physical activity information to enhance leader knowledge; fun, hands-on activities that teach nutrition concepts; ideas to include nutrition education and physical activity into youth programs and events; resources to help youth develop a nutrition or physical activity related community project; tips, worksheets, handouts, discussion prompters and more!

Grade-Level Expectations, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Healthy Children, Successful Students: How to Get Involved

Healthy Eating at Warsaw School District (Powerpoint Presentation) and Health Schools TV News Clip by Claudia Gott, 2007 Coordinated School Health Conference

LifeQuest Expedition: Program Brochure 2005-2007 or website

Missouri Missouri Center for Safe Schools - UMKC
The center provides training and certification for school district safety coordinators.

Missouri School Health Profiles: 1994-2004

Missouri Youth Risk Behavior Survey: 1995-2005

Missouri Eat Smart Nutrition Guidelines, PreK-12th, 2nd edition are now available to the public.  These voluntary guidelines are tools to serve public and private schools wishing to further progress on the route to healthier foods and environments for our children, present and future.  See executive summary.

Missouri Families Eating Smart & Moving More

Missouri Familias Comiendo Inteligente y Moviéndose Más

MOAHPERD Health and Physical Education Survey: The purpose of this survey was to secure data about health and physical education program practices including scheduling, time allotment, electives, and opportunities for non physical education activities, in Missouri schools.

  1. Summary
  2. Database of survey responses (Microsoft Access)

Nutrition Essentials
Nutrition Essentials is a series of lessons that will help you make healthful eating and physical activity choices. It provides several tools which give you information you need to make educated choices. Nutrition Essentials contains 5 posters:

Nutrition Essentials also includes an interactive CD, NutritionDecision, with games and nutrition education information. Nutrition Essentials can be ordered for Team Nutrition Middle and High Schools.

Poison Prevention Lesson Plan:  Students will learn about the problem of poisonings in the United States. The lesson and activities are geared to teach poison prevention. The discussion focuses on incidents that occur in the home and is appropriate in preparing students for preventing poisonings from happening.

Promoting Healthy Weight in Missouri's Children
A Guide for Schools, Families and Communities

Promoting Mental Health in Missouri’s Children
A Guide for Schools, Families, and Communities

Preventing Obesity and Other Chronic Diseases

School Employee Health & Fitness Celebration

School Fundraisers can be Fun and Profitable

School Health Advisory Council Documents:

Taking the Fizz Out of Soda Contracts: A Guide to Community Action

SuccessLink:  The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and SuccessLink collaborate in an effort to disseminate the best practices from schools across Missouri. This project solicits, recognizes, disseminates, and promotes exemplary and innovative practices that have been developed and successfully implemented in Missouri.

Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week

The Link - Domestic Violence

The Link - Animal Abuse and Family Violence

ToxMystery: Features an animated game that helps elementary students learn about common household hazards. Students enter a house and go room to room, mousing over items, clicking on those that move, and answering questions. Lesson plans and parent resources are included. (National Library of Medicine)

Youth Sports Tooklit from CDC

To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with 26 leading organizations, developed the new "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" tool kit for youth sports coaches, parents, and athletes. The tool kit offers important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion-a type of traumatic brain injury-to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports.

Toolkit contains:

  • Fact sheet for coaches, parents, and athletes on concussion;
  • Clipboard with concussion facts for coaches;
  • Magnet with concussion facts for coaches and parents;
  • Poster with concussion facts for coaches and sports administrators; and
  • Quiz for coaches, athletes, and parents to test their concussion knowledge.

Order or download the The "Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports" tool kit free-of-charge.

Well Aware
The Department of Mental Health and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education have partnered to develop a new suicide prevention publication to inform Missouri school leaders of the link between mental health and academics.

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