Tag: schools
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Annual health policy forum set Sept. 28 in Bowling Green
This year’s annual Howard L. Bost Health Policy Forum “will offer new insights and opportunities from a range of civic sectors for a shared vision, policies, and actions for community health,”...
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Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free
Countywide smoking bans are unlikely to pass anytime soon in most of rural Kentucky, but more county school districts are making their campuses tobacco-free. Now a multi-county health department is...
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Trimble County parents protest ‘humiliating’ treatment of students whose school lunchroom accounts are in the red
Parents in Trimble County are demanding that the county schools stop serving cheese sandwiches to students whose lunchroom accounts are in the red, Kayla Vanover of WAVE-TV in Louisville reports....
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A leading authority on bullying in schools offers ideas for recognizing, preventing and dealing with it
By Melissa Landon Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues How do we recognize, deal with and prevent bullying, particularly in schools? A leading authority on bullying offered some ideas June...
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14-year-old from Paducah discusses her depression and thoughts of suicide to help others in a similar situation
Sophie Henney of Paducah chose two days after her 14th birthday to tell her story of depression and thoughts of suicide. She wanted to share her story—and her name—to help...
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Advocates of school nutrition standards use high-school chefs’ competition to show that food can still taste good
The higher school-food standards required by the Child Nutrition Act expire this year, and Republicans are continuing their efforts to roll back some of them. Democrats and advocates of the...
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Another Kentucky school district goes tobacco-free and e-cigarette free; efforts largely led by students in Webster County
The Webster County school board voted unanimously May 26 to make all district property, vehicles and buildings officially tobacco-free, Matt Hughes reports for the Webster County Journal-Enterprise. As in some...
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Bourbon Co. teen named South’s top youth anti-tobacco advocate for his efforts in pushing for county smoking ban
Tyler Boyle (Photo from Lexington Herald-Leader) Tyler Boyle, a Bourbon County High School senior and president of Students Making A Change in the Community, was named the South Region Youth...
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In-school health clinics not only meet the health-care needs of students and staff, but also their families
School-based health clinics in Kentucky could become a trend, especially as the state searches for solutions to meet the health care needs of schools as budgets for school nurses continue...
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Louisville elementaries part of ‘up to date’ health curriculum study
Jefferson County Public Schools have partnered with researchers at the University of Virginia to study how integrating bi-weekly health and wellness instruction into its elementary curriculum will affect students over...