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Advocating for School Wellness: Taking the Lead to Ensure That Students are Healthy and Fit

Publisher: 
American School Board Journal

This special report on childhood obesity and school leadership contains three articles exploring the role of school leadership in addressing school wellness and childhood obesity.

Asthma in Children and Adolescents: Knowledge Path

Publisher: 
Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University

This knowledge path offers a selection of current, high-quality resources about asthma in children and adolescents; its management; and its impact on homes, schools, and communities.

Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Fact Sheet

Publisher: 
National Health Law Program

This fact sheet presents information on why the EPSDT program was implemented as well as information about the program's success in screening and treating eligible children.

Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Report

Publisher: 
US Department of Health and Human Services

This report provides an overview of key health indicators for local communities to encourage dialogue about actions that can be taken to improve a community's health.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Behavior Among Teen and Young Adult Men: A Descriptive Portrait

Publisher: 
Child Trends

The research brief examines survey results on several dimensions of reproductive health by age and by race and ethnicity. The report draws on the male data file from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to present a descriptive portrait of reproductive health behaviors among U.S. adolescent and young adult males (ages 15-24).

The State of America's Children 2008

Publisher: 
Children's Defence Fund

This report is a compilation of the most recent and reliable national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and

A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data

Publisher: 
Child Trends and Kids Count

This guide provides brief descriptions of data and information resources available to those who work in the child and youth indicators field.

Building Success, Leading Change: Stories of Healthy School Environments

Publisher: 
American Association of School Administrators

In this publication, two districts share their successes of using superintendent leadership and collaboration to create healthy school environments conducive to learning.

National Center for Children in Poverty Web site

Publisher: 
Columbia University

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation