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A Health Promoting
School (HPS) “is a school that is constantly strengthening its capacity as a
healthy place for living, learning and working” (World Health Organization,
1996).
A Health Promoting
Schools approach recognizes that learning and health are linked. This approach
to improving school health is comprehensive and involves supportive school
environments; healthy school policies and practices; curriculum, teaching and
learning on health and health promotion; strengthening school-community
relationships; and fostering partnerships to support HPS work.
The concept of HPS
was initially developed by the World Health Organization. They developed a
model for HPS that is being used in countries around the world in response to
increasing concerns about the health and well-being of children.
Health Promoting
Schools in Nova Scotia is a provincial initiative encouraging all schools to
become involved in promoting and supporting health within their school
communities. Increasing concern about chronic disease in children and youth
prompted the Nova Scotia Department of Education and the Nova Scotia Department
of Health Promotion and Protection to create a partnership to work together to
address this issue through a Health Promoting Schools approach.
Locally, a
Tri-County Health Promoting Schools partnership exists in the tri-county area to
support schools to become Health Promoting Schools. This committee is made up
of various partners from across the tri-counties including: Tri-County Regional
School Board, South West District Health Authority, Community Health Boards,
Nova Scotia Health Promotion and Protection, Community Services, Recreation and
Leisure Services, Family Resource Centres, Connecting to Africa: The Ghana
Project, NSCC Burridge Campus, and RCMP.
NOTE:
For further information on Health Promoting Schools (HPS), choose from the menu
on the left.
Contacts
Stephen
Cullen
Active Healthy
Living Consultant
Tri-County Regional School Board
Phone: 902-749-2809
Fax: 902-749-581
Jane Cunningham
Public Health Nutritionist
South West District Health Authority
Phone: 902-742-3542 (extension 462)
Fax: 902-742-6062
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