Healthy Schools Campaign
For The Support Of Social, Emotional, And Physical Student Development
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/20/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
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 Healthy Schools Campaign will make explicit connections between the social, emotional, and physical wellbeing of students and deeper learning by building awareness, documenting effective practices, and developing tools for educators.
About the Grantee
Address
190 South LaSalle, Suite 1508, Chicago, IL, 60603, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for making connections between teaching, learning, and student health
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)
for tools and resources that help school districts connect student learning to health and wellness
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.
