Health Promoting

Schools

How can it work for you?

What is HPS?

• Health promoting schools is a holistic and comprehensive approach to promoting health that integrates health promotion within the whole context of the school.

School Health is…

• Youth Engagement

• Physical Activity

• Healthy Eating

• Social Inclusion

• Emotional Wellbeing

• Social Justice

Benefits

• Student Achievement

• Literacy

• Citizenship

• Cohesive Communities

• Healthy Families

• School Connectedness

• Employability

Great things are happening everyday in your schools that meet

the criteria of HPS.

• Outdoor Classrooms• Greenhouses• Youth Health Centers• Healthy Foods at School Programs• Alternative Learning Opportunities for

students (student PLC’s)• Community and Family involvement

What does HPS look like at your school?

• Funding to support programs

• Resource people

• Action Team

• Tools and processes to help identify priority areas

• Create action plan

• Implementation