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Local Agencies New York City,
New York
The
New York City (NYC) Department of Education in New York receives funding
from CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to implement an asthma
management program, provide HIV prevention education, and conduct the Youth
Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The goals of the NYC Department of Education’s
HIV prevention program include increasing the number of staff who are
trained to provide HIV/AIDS instruction within a comprehensive health
education program, ensuring that students are learning skills that enable
them to prevent risk behaviors, and monitoring critical health behaviors
through the YRBS. The goals of the NYC Asthma Support Services in Schools
and Transitional housing (NYC ASSIST) project are to improve identification,
connection to treatment, and care coordination for children with asthma
living in transitional housing and attending NYC public schools; and to
reduce emergency room visits, hospitalization, and school absences among
this population.
New York City's Program In Action
Asthma Management
- Providing training and technical assistance to school nurses and
other professional staff to increase the skills of students and families
in managing asthma, with a focus on reaching students living in
transitional housing and homeless shelters.
- Partnering with the NYC Asthma Training Institute to provide asthma
training for school administrators and teachers to promote
asthma-supportive school environments.
- Partnering with the NYC American Lung Association to train school
nurses on conducting Open Airways for Schools asthma self-management
programs for students with asthma.
Providing HIV
Prevention Education
- Conducting citywide professional development for administrators,
teachers, and other school staff on the updated HIV/AIDS curriculum,
related policies, and teaching strategies, with an emphasis on reaching
the highest-risk neighborhoods in the city.
- Conducting trainings for parent coordinators to introduce them to
district HIV prevention curricula, related policies, and strategies that
can be used when communicating with their children about HIV/AIDS.
- Developing and implementing a tracking system to ensure all schools
comply with city policies for HIV prevention education, measure teacher
preparedness to teach HIV/AIDS lessons, and identify schools delivering
high quality programs.
Conducting the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- Administering the YRBS to collect data on youth risk behaviors that
are representative of NYC students in grades 9–12.
- Collaborating with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
and other community partners to review questions, administer the survey,
and analyze and disseminate survey results.
- Using YRBS data to guide the Department of Education’s program
planning and partnerships with other agencies and community-based
organizations.
For information on New York City's
previous program activities, see
New York City, New York — 2003–2008.
For data from other states, territories, or localities, see
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