Paula Hudson Collins, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Responsible Students, North Carolina State Board of Education

North Carolina SCORE Project

Paula Hudson CollinsSr. Policy Advisor

Healthy Responsible Students

State Board of Education

• NC State Board of Education received $10,000 from the Council of State Governments for the SCORE projects

• These funds enabled us to leverage other funds from health partners.

Luncheon and Program

• Preventing Childhood Obesity• May 6, 2009• Audience: 130 participants

*NC State Board of Education members and advisors*NC General Assembly

Education Committee members*Superintendent’s Leadership Council members in DPI

Featured Reports on Childhood Obesity Prevention Pilot Programs

*MATCH Moving Adolescents with Technology to Choose Health

*IMPACT International Mission on the Prevention and Continuous Treatment of Childhood Obesity

*COPDP Childhood Obesity Prevention Demonstration Projects

• Comments by the NC State Board of Education Chairman and the NC State Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Healthy luncheon menu

• Physical activity and nutrition table decorations

Program Bonus!

• Flashdrive with hundreds of obesity prevention information documents related to program best practices, policy, economic impact statistics and data resources.

• Provided by NC Healthy Schools

NC Schools Boards Association President’s Invitational

Conference

May 18, 2009Raleigh Convention Center

150 Participants

• SCORE funding provided two program sessions and a healthy afternoon break/networking session

Opening Luncheon Keynote

Dr. Howell Wechsler, Director of DASH, Division of Adolescent and School Health, CDC

Obesity Prevention through Coordinated School Health Programs

Breakout Session

• Dr. Jayne Greenberg, Director of Physical Education and Health Literacy, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, FL

Visionary Physical Education:

Policies and Practices to Impact Student Health

NC SCORE details on the Web @

• http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/stateboard/hrstudents/