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Investing in Student Health: The Importance of Partnerships
Investing in Student Health: The Importance of Partnerships
This video outlines CDC’s recommended approach to school health to reduce risk behaviors and improve academic performance. It describes how students can benefit when school districts invest in health education, health services, and safe and supportive school environments. It also encourages families, school health leaders, and community partners to support this investment in student health as an investment in the future.
DASH Program Overview
Their Future is Our Future: 30 Years of Investing in Adolescent Health
CDC is a leader in developing and promoting data-driven ways to make students safer and healthier. Since 1988, the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) has worked with education agencies, health agencies, youth-serving organizations, and parents to help teens adopt healthy behaviors and avoid becoming pregnant or infected with HIV or STDs. We look back across three decades of progress in translating the science into programs, policies, and practices that can improve students’ lives.
The WSCC Model
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model: 3 Min. 36 Sec.
This video describes how the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model informs HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention. CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) works closely with youth-serving education and health organizations to ensure programs, policies, practices, and research integrate the WSCC model’s school components.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model: 1 Min. 6 Sec.
This video describes how the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model informs HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention. CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) works closely with youth-serving education and health organizations to ensure programs, policies, practices, and research integrate the WSCC model’s school components.
What Is YRBS?
What Is YRBS?
Celeste Jorge, epidemiologist at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, introduces us to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the value of its data. She explains how the information collected from YRBS can be used to help students make healthy choices to become healthy adults.
Digital Short 1
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is used to learn what adolescents face.
Digital Short 2
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) can steer youth toward the right path.
Digital Short 3
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) can be used to help protect adolescents.
Back-to-School: A Time to Think about Health & Academics
Back-to-School: A Time to Think about Health & Academics
New data released by CDC confirms that regardless of sex, race/ethnicity and grade-level, high school students reporting lower academic marks also reported greater health risk behaviors.
Back to School Facebook Event: Health & Academics
CDC experts Dr. Catherine Rasberry and Dr. Georgianne Tiu discuss the connection between teen health and academic achievement.
Public Health Grand Rounds
Beyond the Data - Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness
During adolescence, teens form new friendships, develop social skills, and learn behaviors that will last the rest of their lives. While today’s adolescents are making better decisions about their sexual behavior and substance use, some behaviors are a cause for concern. Find out which behaviors teens need help with and listen to Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. Kathleen Ethier discuss why schools and communities are an important resource for the health and safety of adolescents.
Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness
Today’s adolescents are engaging less in some risky behaviors, yet they need help in other areas as they navigate the teen years. Listen as Dr. John Iskander and Dr. Kathleen Ethier discuss the recent results of a national Youth Risk Behavior survey to learn about the progress being made and the challenges that remain
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