Workgroup Leaders:

Sharon Menkus, Community Leader
Tom Young, Community Leader
Lee Meyer, Facilitator
Lisa Deffendall, Project Coordinator
Mike Kennedy, Staff Leader

Why Consider Physical Health and Well-Being?

• Healthy kids miss fewer days of school and have higher academic achievement.
• Coordinated school health education encourages healthy lifestyles, provides needed supports to at-risk students, and helps to reduce the prevalence of health problems that impair academic success.
• To successfully raise the achievement of all kids, schools must find ways to mitigate behaviors and lifestyles that act as roadblocks to learning.
• Obesity is a problem facing many of our students.
• Our children need more physical activity.
• Limited access to health care is a problem for some of our children.