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Prevention Education is Health Literacy: How to SHAPE the Conversation

SHAPE America

Ask, Listen, Learn Supports Health Literacy Designed alongside a team of educators and organizations specializing in elementary and middle school, the Ask, Listen, Learn underage drinking prevention program consists of 7 animated videos with accompanying lesson plans and activities that are ready for you to use. Know the Facts.

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You Can Empower Youth to Make Informed Choices About Drugs and Health

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Every single day, youth—like all people—make choices that affect their health, including the use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs. Drug use in students Rates of substance use reported by middle and high school students have declined in recent years and held steady in 2022. They are using chalk to make the drawings.

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Connecting Health Literacy to Youth Vaping Prevention

SHAPE America

Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. Health literacy also applies to understanding the harms of tobacco use. Much of this material is also available in Spanish.

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The Relentless School Nurse: If Only We Could Bubble Wrap Our Students to Keep Them Safe…

Relentless School Nurse

My concern is that the language used is not uniform and further adds to a stressful situation. Lockouts, lockdowns, shelter-in-place, all terms that need clarification in schools. Here are open access resources and downloadable training manuals from the team at I Love You Guys that use S tandard R esponse P rotocol (SRP).

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The Relentless School Nurse: Representative Lauren Underwood Needs the Support of Nurses!

Relentless School Nurse

She is a public health nurse currently in her third term in Congress. As you know, Rep Underwood RN, MPH (FAAN) is up for re-election to her 4th term in new district lines of Illinois 14. The fact is that she needs us, in the last election she spent $7 million. Underwood’s re-election campaign.

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How to Be an Ally and Upstander in Your School

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This is a term coined by Rudine Sims Bishop to embrace multiculturalism in literature. Using this shows different families for our students. Let’s face it. There are a lot of differing views in the world today. I still believe students are looking for a sense of connection and belonging in school.

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

It uses a fitness program called CrossFit to make special classes more difficult and challenging. The video above shows an example of how Crossfit concepts can be used in a high school physical education setting, as a program for students who want to work harder than in their traditional PE classes. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com.