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Chicago, Illinois

FACTS & FIGURES
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Comprehensive Results

Comparisons Between State or District and National Results [pdf 161K]

School Health Profiles
Chronic Disease [pdf 100K]
 Selected Topics [pdf 98K]

School Health Policies and Programs Study
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Childhood Overweight
[pdf 186K]
HIV Epidemic [pdf 270K]
 Tobacco Use [pdf 116K]
Violence Prevention [pdf 116K]
 
FUNDED STATE AGENCY
Illinois
 
PREVIOUS PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Chicago, Illinois — 2003–2008
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Chicago Public Schools*

Vicki Pittman
HIV Program Coordinator

Asthma Management Coordinator—Position currently vacant
 

 
Healthy KidsChicago Public Schools (CPS) in Illinois receives funding from CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to implement an asthma management program, provide HIV prevention education, and conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The goal of the CPS HIV/AIDS Prevention Program is to prevent AIDS by providing information and resources to students, parents, and employees. The goals of the CPS asthma management program are to increase asthma awareness for students, staff, and parents; improve attendance for students with asthma; and create asthma friendly environments that reduce risk factors contributing to asthma episodes in students.

Chicago's Program In Action

Asthma Management

  • Collaborating with community partners to implement a comprehensive asthma awareness plan in schools with high rates of students with asthma.
     
  • Providing trainings for students, parents, teachers, physical educators, and athletic coaches on asthma management strategies.
     
  • Developing and maintaining Individual Health Plans for students diagnosed with asthma.

Providing HIV Prevention Education

  • Conducting HIV prevention education trainings for school staff located in Chicago zip codes with the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections among youth.
     
  • Establishing partnerships between school staff in targeted Chicago zip codes and community-based HIV prevention organizations to provide supplemental resources and services.
     
  • Establishing a monitoring system for the provision of HIV prevention education in Chicago Public Schools, including CPS’s Family Life and AIDS Education curriculum, the HealthTeacher Web-based health curriculum, and other approved HIV prevention education programs.

Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey

  • Collaborating with community partners to select questions for inclusion on the CPS YRBS.
     
  • Administering the YRBS to collect data on youth risk behaviors that are representative of Chicago students in middle and high school.
     
  • Using YRBS results to direct school-based interventions for the prevention of health risk behaviors among Chicago youth.


For information on Chicago's previous program activities, see Chicago, Illinois — 2003–2008.

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Page last reviewed: March 4, 2008
Page last modified: June 4, 2008
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health

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