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State Agencies Idaho
Idaho
receives funding from CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to
promote coordinated school health, provide HIV prevention education, and
conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Idaho’s Coordinated School
Health Program (CSHP) is a collaborative effort between the state’s
Department of Education and Department of Health and Welfare. Idaho's
HIV/AIDS Education Program works with schools, school district staff, state
and local health departments, professional organizations, and nonprofit
organizations to provide teachers and school staff with the knowledge and
skills needed to ensure effective implementation of HIV prevention
education.
Idaho's Program In Action
Promoting Coordinated School Health with an Emphasis on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco
Use Prevention (PANT)
- Strengthening collaborative partnerships at the state level to
provide support to schools, communities, and local organizations in
developing and implementing a coordinated school health program.
- Providing technical assistance to school districts to further
develop, implement, and evaluate their school wellness polices.
- Convening a statewide summit to identify available student health
data and gaps in data collection.
- Creating school improvement plans for physical activity, nutrition,
and tobacco use prevention using results from the School Health Index
(SHI).
- Providing technical assistance to help districts evaluate their
physical education curricula using the Physical Education Curriculum
Analysis Tool (PECAT).
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Maintaining and updating a statewide professional development cadre
to conduct regional workshops for teachers and staff on HIV prevention
strategies.
- Conducting regional workshops on HIV/AIDS prevention to ensure that
new teachers and staff receive accurate information.
- Collaborating with community-based agencies to provide HIV
prevention education to high-risk youth, including out-of-school youth.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Collaborating with the Governor's Commission, members of the school
board from the state’s largest school district, and the HIV/AIDS
Materials Review Panel to select and administer the YRBS survey
questions.
- Administering the YRBS in high schools throughout Idaho to obtain
data representative of students in grades 9-12.
- Developing a marketing plan to distribute the YRBS results to
schools, health departments, legislators, and other youth-serving
agencies.
For information on Idaho's
previous program activities, see Idaho, 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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