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Education Prevention Partners follow these strategies: 
Promote Healthy Behaviors
Physical Activity
- Increase opportunities for daily physical activity as part of coordinated school health programs.
- Collaborate with community organizations to provide more information and opportunities for physical activity in the community.
- Make school and university physical activity facilities affordable and accessible to under served, disenfranchised populations, especially in evening and weekend hours.
- Identify and promote a central resource for consistent, reliable information and training related to physical activity.
- Provide students with education about the multiple benefits of physical activity, and about how to determine the effectiveness of messages on physical activity and nutrition.
Nutrition
- Adopt policies encouraging the sale of foods in accordance with Dietary Guidelines for Americans in school vending machines and cafeterias.
- Develop and implement an evidence-based nutrition curriculum in the context of a K-12 coordinated school health program, including a family education component. Use nationally recognized school nutrition policy and planning tools including Team America, Eat Smart Play Hard.
- Improve school menus to provide healthy, low-fat food options that reflect the cultural backgrounds of students and faculty.
Tobacco Use
- Implement evidence-based tobacco prevention programs in the context of the Delaware Health Education Curriculum Network.
- Encourage smoke-free environments in accordance with Federal and local regulations.
- Involve families in support of school-based programs to prevent the use of tobacco products.
- Support development and implementation of science-based youth smoking cessation efforts.
Alcohol and Drug Use
- Provide alcohol- and drug-free activities for adolescents (aged 12?7 years) and populations in educational environments.
- Implement skill-focused, science-based, age-appropriate drug abuse prevention programs as part of coordinated K-12 school health programs.
- Establish partnerships between schools and families to change or support healthy value systems early on and develop activities focused on families, community, and school.
Responsible Sexual Behavior
- Implement skill-based, science-based, age-appropriate, and culturally competent sexuality education programs as part of coordinated K-12 school health programs.
- Establish partnerships with families to support a culturally appropriate healthy value system at an early age and develop activities with families and communities focused on self-esteem and self-care.
- Advocate for sexuality education.
Promote Healthy Communities
Environmental Quality
- Integrate environmental quality education into school curriculum for grades pre-school through college to teach and develop social responsibility for a healthy environment.
- Evaluate and remediate childcare centers, school buildings, and grounds to ensure their environmental quality.
Violence
- Implement in pre-school through college settings an evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum on anger management, conflict resolution, violence prevention, stress management techniques, and appropriate behaviors.
- Provide referral services for violence prevention and intervention.
- Provide education on recognition/intervention for family violence, child abuse, and sexual assault in families or intimate relationships.
Education
- Provide alternative education opportunities to reach populations experiencing educational disparities including alternative ways to obtain a GED through expanding hours and locations.
- Assess and identify at risk children early and provide early education, mentoring, and positive reinforcement. Include parental involvement.
- Conduct faculty focus groups to develop local and culturally specific strategies to increase parent participation in child education with special emphasis on minority populations.
Prevent and Reduce Diseases and Disorders
Mental Health
- Develop life-skills training programs to promote healthy lifestyles and enhance individuals' mental health by increasing social, coping, stress management, and conflict resolution skills.
Injury and Disability
- Educate and promote home safety and safety in the school environment (utilize researched based injury prevention curricula in the schools).
- Expand school nurse database to track specific injuries.
Preventive Services Use
- Educate students and faculty about the importance of health care consumerism, self-care practices, and appropriate health care strategies.
- Emphasize the importance of consumers taking an active role in their own health care.
- Encourage immunizations across the life span
Infant Health
- Research and/or develop science-based, age appropriate, and culturally appropriate curricula for family life education programs.
- Develop school policies on family planning education.
- Support the collaborative implementation of school-based wellness centers.
Improve Health Systems
Access to Health Care Services
- Participate in education activities aimed at informing and encouraging the appropriate use of health care service.
- Establish health career mentoring programs in schools with high minority student populations.
- Establish curriculum tracts in high schools and colleges to prepare students for admission to medical schools, schools of dentistry, schools of nursing and training programs for other health professions.
- Partner with regional medical schools to orchestrate reforms necessary to increase the number of students enrolled in predominately minority high schools and colleges who are interested and able to pursue health careers.
- Establish specialty (charter) high schools for the health professions to attract and prepare students in under-represented minority communities for health careers.
- Improve the cultural and consumer sensitivity of health professional students through awareness and education.
Information on this website is for reference only. For medical advice,
diagnosis and treatment, consult your doctor. Be Healthy Delaware ?2005.
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