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Evidence and Evaluations | National Standards | National Association for Sport and Physical Education | USDA MyPyramid | CDC Guidelines | Brain/Mind Learning CDC's Division of Adolescent School Health, DASH
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids is aligned with CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health:
· Coordinated School Health Program Eight-Component Model
· Ten recommendations for promoting physical activity
· Seven recommendations for promoting lifelong healthy eating
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids is one resource teaching both physical and nutrition education. Learning theorists recommend connecting physical and nutrition education so children can relate the concepts and better retain the information. The following information has been separated from the CDC’s Coordinated School Health Program Eight-Component Model and overall recommendations to cite the specific areas that the bSAFE bFIT! Program impacts. The specific language is used from the CDC’s recommendations followed by how the bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids aligns with the cited areas.
Coordinated School Health Program Eight Component Model
Health Education:
A planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive health education curriculum includes a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community health, consumer health, environmental health, sexuality education, mental and emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers provide health education.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids can be utilized within a sequential health education curriculum addressing physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of health.
Physical Education:
A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that provides cognitive content and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic movement skills; physical fitness; rhythms and dance; games; team, dual, and individual sports; tumbling and gymnastics; and aquatics. Quality physical education should promote, through a variety of planned physical activities, each student's optimum physical, mental, emotional, and social development, and should promote activities and sports that all students enjoy and can pursue throughout their lives. Qualified, trained teachers teach physical activity.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids can be utilized within a sequential physical education curriculum providing cognitive content and learning experiences in basic movement skills, physical fitness, rhythms and dance, games, sports, and other.
Health Services:
Services provided for students to appraise, protect, and promote health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to primary health care services or both, foster appropriate use of primary health care services, prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems, provide emergency care for illness or injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health. Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists, health educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services.
Nutrition Services:
Access to a variety of nutritious and appealing meals that accommodate the health and nutrition needs of all students. School nutrition programs reflect the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other criteria to achieve nutrition integrity. The school nutrition services offer students a learning laboratory for classroom nutrition and health education, and serve as a resource for linkages with nutrition-related community services. Qualified child nutrition professionals provide these services.
Counseling and Psychological Services:
Services provided to improve students' mental, emotional, and social health. These services include individual and group assessments, interventions, and referrals. Organizational assessment and consultation skills of counselors and psychologists contribute not only to the health of students but also to the health of the school environment. Professionals such as certified school counselors, psychologists, and social workers provide these services.
Healthy School Environment:
The physical and aesthetic surroundings and the psychosocial climate and culture of the school. Factors that influence the physical environment include the school building and the area surrounding it, any biological or chemical agents that are detrimental to health, and physical conditions such as temperature, noise, and lighting. The psychological environment includes the physical, emotional, and social conditions that affect the well-being of students and staff.
Health Promotion for Staff:
Opportunities for school staff to improve their health status through activities such as health assessments, health education and health-related fitness activities. These opportunities encourage school staff to pursue a healthy lifestyle that contributes to their improved health status, improved morale, and a greater personal commitment to the school's overall coordinated health program. This personal commitment often transfers into greater commitment to the health of students and creates positive role modeling. Health promotion activities have improved productivity, decreased absenteeism, and reduced health insurance costs.
Family/Community Involvement:
An integrated school, parent, and community approach for enhancing the health and well-being of students. School health advisory councils, coalitions, and broadly based constituencies for school health can build support for school health program efforts. Schools actively solicit parent involvement and engage community resources and services to respond more effectively to the health-related needs of students.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids links schools, families, and the community.
Guidelines for School Health Programs to Promote Lifelong Healthy Eating
Guideline #1: Policy
Adopt a coordinated school nutrition policy that promotes healthy eating through classroom lessons and a supportive school environment.
The bSAFE bFIT! Manual with lesson plans includes healthy eating learning strategies that can be applied in the classroom.
Guideline #2: Curriculum
Implement nutrition education from preschool through secondary school as part of a sequential, comprehensive school health education curriculum designed to help students adopt healthy eating behaviors.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids is a sequential curriculum implementing nutrition education that begins at age 2—an early age to guide children in the development of healthy habits and lifestyle choices before unhealthy habits are formed.
Guideline #3: Instruction for students
Provide nutrition education through developmentally appropriate, culturally relevant, fun, participatory activities that involve social learning strategies.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids:
Guideline #4: Integration of school food service and nutrition education
Coordinate school food service with nutrition education and with other components of the comprehensive school health program to reinforce messages on healthy eating.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids provides ideas in the Additional Activity Suggestions of the bSAFE bFIT! Manual with Lesson Plans to infuse the food service.
Guideline #5: Training for school staff
Provide staff involved in nutrition education with adequate preservice and ongoing in-service training that focuses on teaching strategies for behavioral change.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids provides training using:
Guideline #6: Family and Community Involvement
Involve family members and the community in supporting and reinforcing nutrition education.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids recognizes the important role families and the community have in reinforcing education by involving them in daily activities.
Guidelines #7: Program evaluation
Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the school health program in promoting healthy eating, and change the program as appropriate to increase its effectiveness.
Guidelines for School and Community Programs to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity
Recommendation #1: Policy
Establish policies that promote enjoyable, lifelong physical activity among young people.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids meets policies promoting enjoyable, lifelong physical activity through the use of fun learning strategies that have been sampled by students.
Recommendation #2: Environment
Provide physical and social environments that encourage and enable safe and enjoyable physical activity.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids offers persons dedicated to helping children develop healthy lifestyles in a variety of environments-schools, preschool, daycares, after-school childcare, health agencies, community organizations, etc.
Recommendation #3: Physical Education
Implement physical education curricula and instruction that emphasize enjoyable participation in physical activity and that help students develop the knowledge, attitudes, motor skills, behavioral skills, and confidence needed to adopt and maintain physically active lifestyles.
The physical education classroom is a perfect fit for the bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids. The lesson plans fit into the curriculum and help students increase knowledge, shape wellness attitudes, and develop lifetime wellness.
Recommendation #4: Health Education
Implement health education curricula and instruction that help students develop the knowledge, attitudes, behavioral skills, and confidence needed to adopt and maintain physically active lifestyles.
The health education classroom is a perfect fit for the bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids. The lesson plans fit into the curriculum and help students increase knowledge, shape wellness attitudes, and develop lifetime wellness.
Recommendation #5: Extracurricular Activities
Provide extracurricular physical activity programs that meet the needs and interests of all students.
bSAFE bFIT! learning strategies can be easily implemented in extracurricular physical activity programs.
Recommendation #6: Parental Involvement
Include parents and guardians in physical activity instruction.
Parents and guardians play a significant role in the wellness of children. Therefore, the
bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids is designed to actively include parents in physical activity instruction. A few examples include:
Recommendation #7: Personnel training
Provide training for education, coaching, recreation, healthcare, and other school and community personnel that impact the knowledge and skills needed to effectively promote enjoyable, lifelong physical activity among young people.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids provides training using:
Recommendation #8: Health services
Assess physical activity patterns among young people, counsel them about physical activity, refer them to appropriate programs, and advocate for physical activity instruction and programs for young people.
Assessment ideas are provided in the bSAFE bFIT! Manual with Lesson Plans
Recommendation #9: Community Programs
Provide a range of developmentally appropriate community sports and recreation programs that are attractive to all young people.
The bSAFE bFIT! Program for kids promotes community programs.
Recommendation #10: Evaluation
Regularly evaluate school and community physical activity instruction, programs, and facilities.
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