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Summary Chart of Adolescent and School Health Tools
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Tool |
Purpose |
Who Uses It |
How It is Used |
Support Materials |
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Food-Safe Schools
Action Guide (FSSAG)
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To help schools work with Cooperative Extension, health
departments, and families in efforts to make schools food-safe. |
Local-, regional-, and state-level school food service directors
and managers
Child nutrition program directors
College/university food service professionals
Health departments and Cooperative Extension staff
School nurses, teachers, administrators, and parents |
A school-level team assesses the school environment by reviewing
the information, resources, and recommendations contained in the
multi-media toolkit. Various audiences (e.g., nurses,
administrators, parents) use the customized materials to
determine actions they can take to prevent, manage, and
strengthen response to foodborne illness. |
Action Guide Tools*
(includes brochures, how-to guides, and PowerPoint
presentations) |
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Health Education Curriculum
Analysis Tool (HECAT)
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To help schools, school districts and others to analyze health
education curricula based on alignment with national health
education standards and characteristics of effective health
education curricula. |
State education and health agency school health education
coordinators and specialists
District-level health education curriculum coordinators,
curriculum specialists, school health advisory councils,
curriculum committees
School-level health education departments, individual health
education teachers
College/university health education teacher preparation
professionals |
A committee completes analysis of preliminary curriculum
considerations (accuracy, acceptability, feasibility, and
affordability) and curriculum fundamentals (teacher materials,
instructional design, instructional strategies and materials),
analyzes the breadth and depth of health-topic concepts and
skills in a written curriculum, and completes a summary
curriculum score that is used to inform decisions about
curriculum selection and revision. Multiple curricula can be
analyzed and compared using the same tool. |
FAQs |
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Improving the
Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States
and Communities
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To help guide individuals and organizations through public
health processes that address the 21 Critical Health Objectives
identified in Healthy People 2010 for adolescents and young adults. |
Individuals and organizations at the state and local levels |
The Guide provides a process for defining problems, identifying
solutions, and evaluating the impact of a coalition’s work. It
provides information on using data to shape programs, bringing
stakeholders together, and sustaining a coalition. |
Promotion and Evaluation Materials* |
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Making It
Happen!
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To provide examples and success stories of 32 schools and school
districts that have implemented innovative approaches to improve
the nutritional quality of foods and beverages sold outside the
school meals program. |
School health advisory committees, wellness committee members,
parents, students, administrators, and food service personnel |
Any individual (e.g., principal, parent, school nurse, food
service director, student) who wants to improve the food and beverage
offerings outside of school meals can use MIH for practical ideas and
examples of how to accomplish changes, how to overcome obstacles that may arise, and
whom to involve. |
Fact
sheets
FAQs |
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Physical Education Curriculum
Analysis Tool (PECAT)
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To enable users to analyze written physical education curricula based on alignment with national standards, guidelines,
and best practices for quality physical education programs. |
District-level physical education coordinators, curriculum
specialists, curriculum committees
School-level physical education departments, individual teachers
College/university physical education professionals |
A committee completes the preliminary curriculum analyses
(accuracy, acceptability, feasibility, and affordability), analyzes the
content and student assessment components of the written curriculum, and
develops a curriculum improvement plan. |
Brochure
FAQs
PowerPoint presentations
User Guide |
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School Health Index:
A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide
(SHI)
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To help schools assess and improve their health and safety
policies and programs in the context of a coordinated school
health program. |
School-level health teams, councils, or committees consisting of
administrators, teachers, parents, students, and community members
College/university health education professionals |
A school health team completes eight self-assessment modules to identify strengths and weaknesses of
school health policies and programs. A step-by-step action plan
to improve prioritized areas is developed. The SHI currently
addresses physical activity, healthy eating, tobacco use
prevention, unintentional injury and violence prevention, and
asthma. |
Brochure
FAQs
Training Manual |
