To support California schools in creating safe and caring school environments and delivering effective instruction and services for students’ health and safety.
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Highlighted Trainings and Programs
Check out the centers' five new free online trainings on School-Based Health Education. Available 24 hours a day, these trainings are a great way to brush up on health topics or to enhance your staff trainings.
Completion certificates are e-mailed after passing a five-question quiz. Try a training on Essential Concepts and Analyze Health Influences, Decision Making and Goal Setting, or choose from many other free trainings.
Physical Activity and Nutrition Integration Showcase
The Network for a Healthy California Bay Area Region is offering a one-day workshop called Walk It Out!
- FRESHMeals@Schools
- Access online and peer-to-peer training and technical assistance brought to you by the Fresh, Regional, Education-Supportive, Healthy Meals at Schools (FRESHMeals@Schools).
- SHAPE (Shaping Health As Partners in Education) Newsletter - June 2013
- The SHAPE bimonthly newsletter focuses on after school snack and supper. It also offers information about training and funding opportunities, initiatives, useful resources, research, and policies.
- Team California for Healthy After Schools
- TCHAS focuses on training and coaching strategies for after school teams to develop healthy after school environments and mentoring skills.
Recommended Resources
- Adolescent Sexual Health Education: An Activity Sourcebook (2008)
- This resource is a compilation of activities from evidence-based sexual health education programs. Activity types include role plays, group discussions, homework, and group activities.
- Secondhand Smoke: Just Say Know (2010)
- In Secondhand Smoke students are given a stronger understanding of how dangerous secondhand smoke is, and learn ways to avoid it through role plays and guided writing assignments.
- Bullying Prevention Handbook, The: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors (2008)
- This comprehensive reference provides an array of bullying prevention information and practical applications for school professionals.
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- California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
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- position or policy of the CDE or CDPH.