To date, Healthier Generation has developed ten resources and conducted nearly 50 professional development trainings on topics such as staff well-being, mental health literacy, building a positive and healthy learning environment, and virtual delivery of physical education and physical activity. With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Healthier Generation is providing schools with resources to foster students’ mental, physical, and social-emotional health and well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that schools play a critical role in supporting the health of the whole child. Key highlights from Healthier Generation’s school engagement programming Healthier Generation and Harmony SEL continued their three-year partnership to increase awareness of the critical role that social-emotional learning plays in children’s health and development, disseminating Harmony’s proprietary resources to Healthier Generation’s robust national network of school wellness champions. Building on the RISE Index and previous Healthier Generation assessments, the Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment empowers educators to build action plans, access trainings and resources, and download reports to track progress against goals. In September, we launched another major project in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, the Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment, a comprehensive self-assessment tool that helps schools and districts identify and implement policies and practices that promote health and student achievement. We also created a RISE “extender” model that provides training-of-trainers to partners who wish to disseminate RISE resources in new communities, expanding the reach and impact of this work. Through the Resilience in School Environments (RISE) initiative, supported by Kaiser Permanente, our content experts developed new resources, offered professional learning opportunities, and contributed to the revised Planning for the Next Normal at School playbook to meet the social-emotional needs of students, staff, teachers, and families. Improving Policies and Practices at the Nexus of Health and Learning With all that we have witnessed, redefining health for a healthier tomorrow, together, is critical to the next phase of our work - one rooted in integration and equity - to produce our healthiest generation yet. Unlike conventional approaches to improving health, an approach centered on equitable whole child health involves a deep examination of existing and needed supports for the mind and for the body, both at home and at school, and engaging stakeholders at all levels – putting them in the middle of the solution in the most culturally responsive way possible.Īs you review our 2021 Impact Report, I hope you take pride in the role that each of you played in helping Healthier Generation deliver a meaningful response to an ongoing pandemic. We define optimal health as cutting across multiple interrelated topics (whole child health) and we advance equitable solutions by working collaboratively with schools, families, and community partners to create safe, stable environments that support comprehensive well-being. Re-exposed wounds of adversity, systemic inequities, and unrelenting toxic stress have especially plagued youth who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) as well as youth from under-resourced communities.īearing witness to the experiences of the past year allows each of us to reexamine and redefine ‘health’ in more equitable and inclusive ways, and deepen our resolve to uplift those who disproportionately shoulder the burden of this collective health crisis.Īt Healthier Generation, the way forward is through integration. COVID-19 continues to threaten our physical health, and communities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in demand for social-emotional and mental health supports. As a leading children’s health organization, the presiding question for Healthier Generation remains: What does it mean to be healthy today and tomorrow?Ģ021 was a challenging year for delivering on our organizational impact goal of every mind, every body, every young person healthy and ready to succeed. Yet this much remains clear: We have a collective responsibility as a nation to work together to advance a healthier generation of young people. Reflecting on events from this past year has left many of us with questions about the role of public health in our lives. Rasha A (Palestinian Territory, Occupied).Letter from our CEO: Redefining Health for a Healthier Tomorrow She is currently working on her first book, a collection of short stories entitled, I Surrender. She is a board member of Hollaback and a co-founder of the platform Heartmob. Courtney Young is the founder of Think Young Media Group, LLC, a creative media firm based in NYC and Southwest Louisiana.
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