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Governor's Healthy Virginians/Healthy Students Week

The General Assembly has designated the third week in September as Healthy Virginians/Healthy Students Week. In observance of the first Healthy Students Week in 2007, the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources extended an invitation to local school divisions and health districts to participate in the Governor’s Healthy Students Summit on September 20. The purpose of the Summit was to foster local collaboration between school divisions and health districts to develop action plans to address childhood obesity.

Summit participants did the following:

• Learned about recent collaborations between public education and public health for the prevention of childhood obesity in various Virginia localities;
• Learned how Local Wellness Policies can serve as an important tool to guide the development of childhood obesity prevention efforts at the local level;
• Learned how the Governor’s Scorecard for Nutrition and Physical Activity can serve as a significant motivator for the development of childhood obesity prevention efforts at the local level; and,
• Began to develop local team action plans to prevent childhood obesity.

Each school division was invited to send a team that could include the superintendent, school principals, school nutrition director, school nurses, health and physical educators, and members of the school health advisory board. Each health district was invited to send a team that could include the director, nurse manager and appropriate nutrition and health education staff. School divisions and health districts were encouraged to jointly identify appropriate team members and to register as a group.

Plans are underway for the 2008 Healthy Virginians/Healthy Students Week.