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State Agencies Maine
The
Maine Department of Education 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).
The Department partners with the Maine Department of Health and Human
Services Center for Disease Control and Prevention to provide resources,
technical assistance, and professional development for school staff.
Maine's Program In Action
Promoting Coordinated School Health with an Emphasis on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco
Use Prevention (PANT)
- Creating an inventory of all state agencies and programs addressing
school health.
- Analyzing data to identify health disparities and using the finding
to determine priority areas for coordinated school health programs.
- Establishing a coordinated school health professional development
training team to provide educational sessions and technical assistance
to local education associations and school health coordinators on model
programs and promising practices.
- Producing and disseminating new tools for state and local partners
to promote CSHP and PANT statewide.
- Providing training and technical assistance to local education
agency administrators to enhance the knowledge, skills, and leadership
capacity needed to implement a CSHP.
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Collaborating with state and local stakeholders, including youth, to
develop a strategic plan for HIV prevention education.
- Providing professional development opportunities and technical
assistance for schools and youth-serving agencies to implement HIV
prevention education for youth in high-risk situations.
- Collaborating with state and local partners to develop an HIV
program evaluation tool.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Developing Maine’s Integrated Youth Health Survey by integrating the
YRBS with the Maine Youth Alcohol and Drug Use Survey.
- Administering the integrated Youth Health Survey to collect health
risk behaviors representative of Maine students in grades 7-12.
For information on Maine's
previous program activities, see Maine, 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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