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State Agencies Kentucky
Kentucky
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). Kentucky’s coordinated school
health program (CSHP) provides professional development and technical
assistance on health policy, curriculum, and programming; identifies,
develops, and disseminates resources; collects and analyzes data; and works
to integrate school health goals and strategies into school improvement
plans, in order to support and promote the health of youth in Kentucky.
Kentucky's Program In Action
Promoting Coordinated School Health with an Emphasis on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco
Use Prevention (PANT)
- Partnering with the Barren River District Health Department to
develop a well-coordinated school health program in four school
districts.
- Providing professional development that addresses CDC’s six youth
health risk behaviors to key stakeholders to build support for
coordinated school health programs.
- Conducting quarterly meetings of the Physical Activity Advisory
Council to address physical activity policies and programs.
- Conducting regional Youth Tobacco Conferences with the Kentucky
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program to address prevention
strategies within schools and local communities.
- Participating in the Southern States Collaborative to address common
training needs in the areas of physical activity, nutrition and tobacco.
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Providing professional development for teachers and school staff on
HIV/AIDS and adapted teaching strategies for providing HIV prevention
education to special education students.
- Working with a Youth Action Group to provide HIV prevention
education to high school students.
- Providing professional development on how to implement effective HIV
prevention education for teachers in areas of the state affected most by
HIV/AIDS.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Administering the YRBS to collect data representative of Kentucky
students in grades 9-12.
- Developing an action plan for distributing the YRBS data to state
and local stakeholders.
- Collaborating with statewide agencies and researchers to share and
use YRBS data.
For information on Kentucky's
previous program activities, see Kentucky, 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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