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3 Things Schools Can Do to REALLY Improve Student Health

SHAPE America

If you were to travel across the United States asking schools how they approach health education, you’d get a VERY wide range of responses. Implementing systems to increase student access to health care. Providing Quality Health Education, Including Sexual Health Education. Some schools avoid the topic altogether.

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5 Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in School

SHAPE America

It is, I believe, an essential part of our work as health and physical educators. LGBTQ+ students who experienced higher levels of in-person victimization because of their sexual orientation felt lower levels of belonging to their school community, performed poorer academically, (2.83 This is lifelong work.

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