health promoting schools how can it work for you ?
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Health Promoting
Schools
How can it work for you?
What is HPS?
• Health promoting schools is a holistic and comprehensive approach to promoting health that integrates health promotion within the whole context of the school.
School Health is…
• Youth Engagement
• Physical Activity
• Healthy Eating
• Social Inclusion
• Emotional Wellbeing
• Social Justice
Benefits
• Student Achievement
• Literacy
• Citizenship
• Cohesive Communities
• Healthy Families
• School Connectedness
• Employability
Great things are happening everyday in your schools that meet
the criteria of HPS.
• Outdoor Classrooms• Greenhouses• Youth Health Centers• Healthy Foods at School Programs• Alternative Learning Opportunities for
students (student PLC’s)• Community and Family involvement
What does HPS look like at your school?
• Funding to support programs
• Resource people
• Action Team
• Tools and processes to help identify priority areas
• Create action plan
• Implementation
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