John D' Bower MD School Health Network

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John D. Bower MDSchool Health Network

• Making the Connection
• Health and Student Achievement

Anne Travis The Bower Foundation
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The Bower Foundation

• Health focus
• Mississippi
• Goals
• Access to healthcare services
• To promote health
• To advocate for informed health policy and health
  education
• Strategic Approach
• Few Projects
• Childrens Health
• Health Policy
• Water fluoridation
• Closely managed/monitored grants
• Sustainable impact
• Return on Investment

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Why Children and Schools?

• WHY Children?
• Good return on grant investment
• Healthy Children can achieve
• WHY Schools?
• Schools can have the greatest impact on student
  health and make the most efficient use of scarce
  resources by developing the coordinated school
  health programs that bring together the people
  responsible for all of a schools health-related
  activities.
• Centers for Disease Control

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Why Children and Schools?Center for Disease
Control

• Establishing healthy behaviors during childhood
  is easier and more effective than trying to
  change unhealthy behaviors in adults.
• Schools have a critical role to play in promoting
  the health and safety of young people.
• Schools are an opportunity to reach children.
• Schools provide an opportunity to practice
  healthy behaviors such as healthy eating and
  physical activity.
• Studies have shown that school health program can
  reduce health risk behaviors among young people
  and positively impact on students academic
  performance.

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Investment in Childrens Health

• Since 1996
• Total Grants Committed 21,142,000
• School Health Grants 7,589,000
• 36
• School Nurses
• Office of Healthy Schools
• Start Up Grants
• Vending Machine Revenue Assessment
• Network Grant

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Lessons Learned by The Bower Foundation

• Without support from the local district and
  school leaders project will likely fail
• With support from the local district and school
  leaders project will likely succeed
• Start with some success or readiness
• Base payments on benchmark achievement

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Network Grant Fundamentals

• Required participation from
• School District Superintendent
• School Principal
• School Health Coordinator
• Grant payments based on benchmark achievement

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Network Starting Point Pilot Group
Knowledge of School Health
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Network Grant Purpose

• With Select School Districts
• Provide
• Technical Assistance
• Opportunity for Peer Support
• One time funding based on benchmarks
• For schools to determine how to use EXISTING
  school, school district and community resources
  to implement Coordinated School Health in one
  school in the district
• Timeframe 3 years

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Network Grant Process

• Serious Commitment
• Meetings 3 or 4 per year
• Required attendance of Superintendent and
  Principal and School Health Coordinator
• Information and Technical Assistance
• Opportunity to Plan
• Peer Process
• Safe Place
• Successes
• Lessons Learned

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Underlying Process Premise

• Participation in the Network is an opportunity to
  create a healthy school environment
• Plan
• Take action
• Get feedback
• Share results
• Project design and development

Plan
Action
Feedback
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Network Grant Outcomes

• Implement Coordinated School Health in one school
  in the district
• Improve school health environment
• Implement sustainable change
• Develop school health champions in state, local
  and district level
• Create Mississippi success stories
• Create statewide momentum
• Support policy changes

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Funds

• 11 benchmarked time frame
• 1st Benchmark April 12-13, 2006
• 9,000 payment based on
• Achievement of benchmarks
• Submission of your plan for use of funds to the
  Office of Healthy Schools
• Use of Funds
• Funds may only be used to implement the eight
  component Coordinated School Health Program
  Model.
• Funds made available under this program shall be
  used to supplement, and not supplant, other
  Federal, State and local funds expended to carry
  out the grant activities.

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Roles and ResponsibilitiesCommitment

• School District/School
• Implement coordinated school health in 1 school
• Participate in the Network share
• Provide an example to the rest of the schools and
  districts in the state
• MS Department of Education Office of Healthy
  Schools
• Provide assistance and support to network schools
  and their districts
• Review Benchmark Achievement/Approve Use of
  Funds/Process Payments
• Facilitate network schools to share stories and
  lessons at statewide meetings and publications
• The Bower Foundation
• Provide funding to MDE

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U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Senate
Report 107-84, to accompany Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education (LHHS)
Appropriations Bill Fiscal Year 2002

• Children are our most valuable resource, and
  schools represent an opportunity to provide our
  children with valuable health skills.

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• Willie Amos Emily Ashworth Amy Barham Phil
  Burchfield
• Edward Lee Childress Pallascene Bright Cole David
  Daigneault
• Thomas Edwards Marvie Fitts Karen Fioranelli
  Gerald George Donnie Howell James R. Hutto Teresa
  Jenny James Johnson Larry Johnson
• Mary L. Jones Milton Kuykendall Dahlia Lee
  Landers
• Ellie Lott Beverly Lowry Rita E. Mizell
  Elizazbeth Mosley Rueben B. Myers Henry Phillips,
  Jr. Janet M. Smith Thomas L. Spencer Kay
  Strickland
• Glenn A. Swan Gwendolyn Vaughn Robert Wade Mamie
  Warren
• Lynn Weathersby Liesa M. Weaver Denise Webb Ann
  H. Wilson

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