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This video outlines CDC’s recommended approach to school health to reduce risk behaviors and improve academic performance. It describes how students can benefit when school districts invest in health education, health services, and safe and supportive school environments. It also encourages families, school health leaders, and community partners to support this investment in student health as an investment in the future.
Their Future is Our Future: 30 Years of Investing in Adolescent Health
CDC is a leader in developing and promoting data-driven ways to make students safer and healthier. Since 1988, the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) has worked with education agencies, health agencies, youth-serving organizations, and parents to help teens adopt healthy behaviors and avoid becoming pregnant or infected with HIV or STDs. We look back across three decades of progress in translating the science into programs, policies, and practices that can improve students’ lives.
Back-to-School: A Time to Think about Health & Academics
New data released by CDC confirms that regardless of sex, race/ethnicity and grade-level, high school students reporting lower academic marks also reported greater health risk behaviors.
Back to School Facebook Event: Health & Academics
CDC experts Dr. Catherine Rasberry and Dr. Georgianne Tiu discuss the connection between teen health and academic achievement.
Beyond the Data - Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness
During adolescence, teens form new friendships, develop social skills, and learn behaviors that will last the rest of their lives. While today’s adolescents are making better decisions about their sexual behavior and substance use, some behaviors are a cause for concern. Find out which behaviors teens need help with and listen to Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. Kathleen Ethier discuss why schools and communities are an important resource for the health and safety of adolescents.
Adolescence: Preparing for Lifelong Health and Wellness
Today’s adolescents are engaging less in some risky behaviors, yet they need help in other areas as they navigate the teen years. Listen as Dr. John Iskander and Dr. Kathleen Ethier discuss the recent results of a national Youth Risk Behavior survey to learn about the progress being made and the challenges that remain