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State Agencies South Carolina
The
South Carolina Department of Education, in collaboration with the South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, understands the
critical link between academic achievement and being healthy and works to
improve the health status of youth. The South Carolina Department of
Education supports these efforts by collaborating with schools and school
districts to promote local-level decision making on health education, build
youth assets, and enhance the involvement of families and communities. South
Carolina 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).
South Carolina's Program In Action
Promoting Coordinated School Health with an Emphasis on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco
Use Prevention (PANT)
- Providing professional development for training cadre members on
effective research-based PANT programs and policies.
- Providing training, resources, funding, and technical assistance
regarding PANT to selected school districts disproportionately affected
by chronic disease.
- Collaborating with the South Carolina Association of School Administrators to
develop a School Health Leadership Institute for school and
health department administrators.
- Collaborating with the South Carolina Office of Youth Services Youth Advisory
Board to solicit youth recommendations for PANT program design and
planning efforts.
- Collaborating with Eat Smart, Move More South Carolina to
develop a model School Wellness Policy.
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Maintaining a HIV prevention education training cadre to provide
training, resources, and technical assistance to school districts
disproportionately affected by HIV, STIs, and adolescent pregnancy.
- Providing HIV prevention education training to new South Carolina
teachers.
- Providing training and assistance in HIV prevention education to
community organizations that focus on addressing the needs of young
African American males.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Administering the YRBS to collect health risk behavior data
representative of South Carolina students in middle and high school.
- Disseminating and promoting the use of the YRBS data with state and
local stakeholders.
- Collaborating with other state agencies to develop recommendations
for using multiple data sets, including the YRBS, to improve student
health and academics.
For information on South Carolina's
previous program activities, see South Carolina, 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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