This year, ASHA is kicking off our end-of-year giving campaign on #GivingTuesday, Dec. 3. Your donations — big or small — help make our mission possible by supporting school health professionals and students to attend our conference. Your gift will provide an...
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ASHA members, if you have not updated your ASHA member profile in a while, please take few minutes to do so to ensure that all information is current. We'll be conducting a study of our membership and the more information you provide, the better we'll be able to meet your...
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2018 School Health Profiles (Profiles), a system of surveys assessing school health policies and practices in states, large urban school districts, and territories, is now available. Profiles results indicate...
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The American School Health Association invites qualified individuals to submit proposals for 2020 ASHA webinars. Webinars must be aligned with best practices in health and education including: ASHAs Core Beliefs, WSCC Model, Skills-based learning, Evidence-based programs,...
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Recruit a new member to ASHA today! When they indicate you as one that referred them to ASHA, you will be entered into a raffle to win free movie tickets.
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The National Institute of Nursing Research as a funding opportunity announcement for "innovative research to identify mechanisms of influence and/or promote positive sustainable health behavior(s) in children and youth (birth to age 18)." This may include sleep, SEL, dental...
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Bad eating habits begin at a young age in American children, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,200 babies (aged 6 to 11 months) and toddlers (12 to 23 months) between 2011 and 2016. They found that 61 percent...
source: HealthDay News via UPI
While sports are an important part of a healthy lifestyle for young people, injuries can happen too — and a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics reveals which...
source: CNN
For months now, one of your teachers has been coming to you about a struggling student. The student is easily distracted, disorganized, often hyperactive and restless. Your training tells you to recommend an evaluation for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Your gut...
source: School Leaders Now
A regular drumbeat of mass shootings in the U.S., both inside schools and out, has ramped up pressure on education and law enforcement officials to do all they can to prevent the next attack. Close to all public schools in the...
source: NPR
Senators on both sides of the aisle took the FDA to task for what they said was too slow of a response to the vaping epidemic among teens. "In 2017, the Trump administration delayed FDA oversight of existing e-cigarette products by 4 years," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., ranking...
source: MedPage Today
Too few American parents are having their children vaccinated against influenza each year, researchers say after an analysis of data. In spite of the severity of recent flu seasons, and advice from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others, less than...
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Roughly 85 percent of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms investigated in California did not provide adequate ventilation, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). For the study,...
source: University of California - Davis via Science Daily
Some users of Instagram will notice a subtle but significant change when they open the app: posts from other users will no longer display the number of "likes" they received. The new feature, already implemented in seven countries,...
source: Education Week
The Health Education/Promotion profession is dedicated to excellence in the practice of promoting individual, family, group, organizational, school, and community health. Guided by common goals to improve the human condition, Health Education Specialists are responsible...
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