Healthy Schools Campaign

This OE grant will support the Healthy Schools Campaign to undergo a comprehensive strategic planning process with a focus on brand building, staff development, and the deeper inculcation of a racial equity lens into the work the organization carries out.

Healthy Schools Campaign, a national nonprofit, works to ensure that schools can provide students with healthy environments, nutritious food, health services, and opportunities for physical activity. The organization’s chief goal is to ensure that schools have the capacity to support and sustain healthy learning environments for children. Through this grant, the organization will continue to work with states and school districts to leverage new and sustainable funding for physical and mental health services in schools; provide guidance and resources to the broader field to support scaling and sustaining the expansion of school health services; evaluate the use of chronic absenteeism data to support healthy student growth and development; and highlight the importance of healthy schools in the national discourse. (Substrategy: District Deep Dives and Networks)

The Healthy Schools Campaign has since 2002 worked to advance policies and practices that enhance student learning. The organization’s chief goal is to ensure that schools have the capacity to support and sustain healthy learning environments for children. Through this grant, the organization will (a) work with states and school districts to leverage new and sustainable funding for physical and mental health services in schools; (b) provide guidance and resources to the broader field to support scaling and sustaining the expansion of school health services; (c) evaluate the use of chronic absenteeism data to support healthy student growth and development; and (d) highlight the importance of healthy schools in the national discourse.