Conference Committee

April As the year starts coming to a close and you think about all you accomplished this past year, make sure that you make an appointment with your school principals to review what services you provided this past year, what were some accomplishments and what were some of the challenges. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to collect data at your sc […]

World Health Organization:Mental health is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.” What is mental health really? Is it simply the absence of mental illness? What are the signs of m […]

I am on an airplane as I write this coming back from Washington D.C. The Healthy Schools Campaign and the Trust for America’s Health convened a group of interested parties to develop a position paper with recommendations to prioritize health in schools including improving the ratios of school nurses in the schools. How exciting is this! This was the first co […]

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This week's poll asks about programs conducted during the last months of school to facilitate fully immunized students in the fall. […]