Whole Child Through the Lens of Health Equity

Tuesday February 4, 2020
1:30 - 3:00 PM
A302

 

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This presentation will build participant knowledge and skills around focusing on the whole child through a health equity framework. We will share success stories, resources, and engage participants in activities and share health equity best practices to fully engage the audience. The idea of integrating and aligning policies and systems to create supportive school environments has been a strategy for years. Health Equity is having the personal agency and fair access to resources and opportunities needed to achieve the best possible physical, emotional and social well-being. We know many students come to school with disadvantages. We plan to focus on what the participants can do to promote equity among students and become aware of system inequities through the lens of the ten components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model.

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Presenters
Jessica Lawrence

Jessica Lawrence has worked in school health/whole child for about twenty years as a teacher, state coordinator and national consultant. She has worked with clients all over the United States on many issues related to school health including school employee wellness, health and physical education, school health services, obesity prevention, and coordinated school health. Her passion is to work with schools and districts to build policies, programs and practices that support the whole child and disassemble structures of inequity.
Jamie Sparks

Jamie Sparks has been in the school health field for fifteen years as a former teacher and state director.  Jamie has spent is entire career passionately addressing how schools can create places where students and staff can thrive when they focus on the health and well-being of students and staff.
Type:
Workshop
Theme:
leadership
Audience:
district leaders
Categories:
evidence based practices