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Underage Drinking: Is it an issue in your
school and community?
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Study: Exercise Improves Decision-Making, and
Possibly Math Skills
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Safe Routes to
School: 2007 State of the States Report
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Smokefree South
Dakota Day at the Capitol
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Resources
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Funding
Opportunities
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Professional Development
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Underage Drinking: Is it an issue in your school
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Please join Prairie View Prevention Services and
the Department of Highway Safety, to launch a
statewide prevention campaign addressing
underage drinking. The statewide media campaign
will begin in March of 2008 before prom and
graduation. Free materials and media messages
will be consistent across the state but there is
opportunity to localize it for your area. In
preparation for the spring launch we would like
to sign on schools and communities who can be
the contact point for their area.
This effort can be used to enhance current
prevention efforts in your school and community.
For details and how to sign up for the campaign
and materials visit our website:
www.safesouthdakota.com.
If you have questions please feel free to
contact me, Darcy Jensen at Prairie View
Prevention, 605-331-5724 or
darcyj@prairieview.net.
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Study: Exercise Improves Decision-Making, and
Possibly Math Skills |
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Daily exercise for three months can improve the
brain function of overweight children, according
to a new study of 200 overweight, inactive 7- to
11-year-olds that was presented this week at The
Obesity Society's annual scientific meeting. "We
hope these findings will help persuade
policymakers, schools and communities that time
spent being physically active enhances, rather
than detracts from learning," said the study's
lead investigator, Dr. Catherine Davis.
Forbes/HealthDay News
(10/26)
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Students at a Minnesota parochial school are
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large rubber exercise balls. School
administrators say the new seating
arrangement, which is said to help students
concentrate, burn energy and improve
fitness, has proven so successful with the
students using it; they're prepared to
introduce it to every classroom in the
school.
Star Tribune
(Minneapolis-St. Paul)
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Safe Routes to School: 2007 State of the States
Report |
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The 2007 State of the States Report on Safe
Routes to School. (SRTS) provides an update on
the implementation of the federal SRTS program
in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The report includes a description of the health,
safety and community concerns that the SRTS
program helps address, an outline of the
enabling legislation, an overview of the
progress made in all the states, early success
stories, observations and
available resources.
Available at:
http://www.saferoutespartnership.org/media/file/rpt_SRTSstates2007.pdf.
From the Safe Routes to School Partnership: A
network of more than 300 organizations and
professional groups working to set goals, share
best practices, secure funding and inform
agencies that implement Safe Routes to School
programs.
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Smokefree South Dakota Day at the Capitol |
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The
Day at the Capitol is a significant advocacy
event for smokefree efforts in South Dakota.
Smokefree advocates from across South Dakota
will converge on Pierre during the legislative
session to show support for a smokefree South
Dakota. For more
information go to the South Dakota Tobacco Free
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Resources |
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Active Living Resource- Getting Youth Involved
in Planning |
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This fact sheet provides information on how to
involve youth in community planning and
decision-making using their unique perspective
on active living. Also provided are examples and
resources for community planning with children.
For more information:
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Funding
Opportunities |
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Team Nutrition
mini-grants deadline December 20th
Mini-grants are available for school gardens,
fun fruit and vegetable events, and registered
dietician assistance for schools. Applications
must be postmarked by December 20th.
http://doe.sd.gov/oess/cans/nutrition/grants.asp.
Click here to view the mini-grant brochure.
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Physical
Activity and Nutrition Grants Awarded
A total of $70,000 is being award to the
following K-12 school districts, community
organizations, out of school programs (OST) and/or post secondary institutions. Monies are
available from the Maternal and Child Health
Block fund and a recent one-year grant from the
National Governors Association. The grants range
from $1000.00 to $5000.00.
Grant
activities will improve the policy and
environment around nutrition and physical
activity.
Organizations receiving funding are:
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LSS Southern Hills and Hilltop Out of School
Time (OST); Sioux Falls, SD
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Belle Fourche Area Community Center; Belle
Fourche, SD
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Howard School District
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Gayville-Volin School District; Gayville, SD
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Vermillion Public School OST; Vermillion, SD
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Volunteers of America; Sioux Falls, SD
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Rapid City School District; Rapid City, SD
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Eureka Public School; Eureka, SD
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Youth and Family Services; Rapid City, SD
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Belle Fourche School District; Belle
Fourche, SD
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DeSmet School District; DeSmet, SD
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Loving School-Sioux Falls Children's Home;
Sioux Falls, SD
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Hoven School District; Hoven, SD
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FrederickAre School District; Frederick, SD
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LSS Canyon Hills Center; Spearfish, SD
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Hawthorne Elementary School; Sioux Falls, SD
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The Jungle OST Program; Huron, SD
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Department of Health Provides Tobacco Prevention
Funding to Schools
Fifty-five K-12 school districts are the
recipients of grants totaling nearly $460,000
from the South Dakota Department of Health to
combat tobacco use. The funding is aimed at
helping schools improve and promote tobacco
control.
http://www.state.sd.us/news/showDoc.aspx?i=9068
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New Funding Opportunities
The National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors (NACDD) links chronic disease program
directors in every US state and territory and
provides a national forum focused on efforts to
reduce the impact of chronic diseases and their
risk factors on states and communities
nationwide.
NACDD now provides a web page that consolidates
funding opportunities aimed to improve chronic
diseases. Open deadline as well as those with
deadlines are featured. If you would like to
submit a funding opportunity for posting or
provide feedback on this resource, please
contact David Yum:
dyum@chronicdisease.org.
Page available at:
http://www.chronicdisease.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3574
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For
a complete list of professional development
opportunities, visit
www.southdakotapd.com.
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SD Health Education Standards and
Assessment II – Searchable Database
CD/Web-based Assessment System
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Aligning Health and Reading with A HEAP
of Books
SD Health
Education Standards and Assessment II –
Searchable Database CD/Web-based Assessment
System
January 14-15, 2008, Performance Data Center,
Pierre, SD
Coordinated School Health in the Department’s of
Education and Health is seeking elementary,
middle school and/or high school teachers,
responsible for Health Education in his/her
school district, to participate in the pilot
training for Standards and Assessment II –
Searchable Database CD/Web-based Assessment
System.
Participants in this training must have taken
the South Dakota Health Education Standards
and Assessment I training and/or the
Health Methods for the Elementary Teacher
through Black Hills State University. This
initial training provided participants with an
introduction to classroom instruction and
assessment techniques designed to increase
health literacy in our schools. The Standards
and Assessment II training is the next step to
increasing participants’ assessment capabilities
of their health programs.
This 15 hour follow-up training will be held
January 14-15, 2008, at the Performance Data
Center, 200 West Pleasant Drive, Pierre, SD.
The training is designed to give teachers
specific knowledge, skills, competencies and
techniques in using assessment as motivation for
learning as well as assessment of learning. For
more information go to
https://apps.sd.gov/Applications/DE49TrnTracker/Secure/AvaliableClasses.aspx.
Questions regarding training design and content
can be directed to Karen Keyser, Health
Education Coordinator for Coordinated School
Health in the Department of Education at
Karen.keyser@state.sd.us or 605-773-6808.
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Aligning Health and Reading with A HEAP of Books
January 10-11, 2008, Best Western Ramkota,
Aberdeen, SD
You know how important health education is for
your students. But it is no secret that there
just isn’t enough time for it. The Aligning
Health and Reading with a HEAP of Books
training is the practical solution for
elementary and secondary teachers, school
counselors, nurses and many others for getting
it all done in the little time you have.
The Aligning Health and Reading with a HEAP
of Books training is designed to help
teachers make connections between the health
knowledge and skills their students should
achieve in order to become health literate and
the books they integrate into their daily
lessons on reading and writing.
The training will be held at the Best Western
Ramkota, 1400 8th Avenue NW,
Aberdeen, SD from 8:30- 4:00 p.m. on January
10-11, 2008. Participants will be eligible to
receive one graduate credit through Black Hills
State University for $40.00 and one Department
of Education Teacher Renewal Credit at no
charge. Participants may also take the course
for no credit.
Click here to register on-line.
Questions
regarding training design and content can be
directed to
Karen Keyser, Health Education Coordinator for
Coordinated School Health in the Department of
Education at
Karen.keyser@state.sd.us
or 605-773-6808
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