Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Improving Health, Academic Achievement, and Well-Being of Students - North Carolinians of all ages suffer from preventable chronic health conditions. The United Health Foundation’s 2022 “America’s Health Rankings” report reveals that NC ranks #30 in the order of healthiest to least healthy states based on chronic diseases including cardiovascular deaths, cancer deaths, and diabetes. Adolescents are disproportionately impacted by obesity and other risk factors. Public schools offer a key intervention opportunity. NC Department of Public Instruction's Healthy Schools Section knows that students who are healthier are more alert, more focused on learning, and miss less school. They not only learn better in class, but they also learn lifelong healthy behaviors. Therefore, the NC Healthy Schools Section focuses on improving the health of students and staff by providing coordination and resources in the context of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model. The goal is to create students who are healthier in school, in class, and ready to learn. NC Healthy Schools will work intensively with the selected priority and statewide Local Education Agencies (LEAs) around physical activity, school nutrition and school health policies, practices, programs and services within schools and out-of-school time (OST) settings using a tiered approach to first reach the priority LEA and expand over the project period to reach all LEAs. Working collaboratively with state and national partners, NCDPI will use the strategies described in this application to build the capacity of LEAs across the state to create healthy school environments, for nutrition, physical activity and the management of chronic health conditions. Through the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model, NCDPI will establish partnerships to support school health programs, promote the dissemination and implementation of the CDC school health guidelines, tools and resources through statewide professional development and technical assistance op portunities. NCDPI will support LEA adoption of policies and practices that increase physical activity, improve school nutrition and school health policies practices, programs, and services within their schools and out-of-school time (OST) settings.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).