Resources
State Representative visits East Middle School in Plymouth
State Rep. Jeff Noble visited East Middle School in Plymouth on Monday, April 16, 2018 to learn more about Project Healthy Schools. Learn more.
Welcome to Project Healthy Schools (PHS)
A community-University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) collaborative
Live in the D - How you can help kids get healthy!
PHS Program Manager Jean DuRussel-Weston and Weight Watchers CEO Florine Mark discuss the importance of healthy role models for kids and a new partnership between PHS and The Weight Watchers Group, Inc. Watch the interview.
A SPECIAL OFFER FROM WEIGHT WATCHERS
Project Healthy Schools and Weight Watchers team up to help administrators, educators, and staff at PHS participating schools become healthier. Exclusive pricing.Here's the info.
Disney on Ice performer works to reduce childhood obesity
Brad Newman, wellness and grants coordinator for Project Healthy Schools, started skating at age 7 and hasn't stopped since. He spent five years with Disney on Ice. Read the article.
Project Healthy Schools Lessons Learned
Recently, the Michigan Medicine-led team behind Project Healthy Schools shared some key findings from 13 years of PHS research in the American Journal of Medicine. Read the Michiganhealthlab.org blog post about the research.
WHAT MAKES A SCHOOL HEALTHY FOR STUDENTS?
Jean DuRussel-Weston, manager of Project Healthy Schools, was interviewed by Healthline.com for an article about what makes a school healthy. Read the article.
Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to stem the tide of this epidemic by:
- teaching youth healthy habits
- developing healthy school environments
- creating an infrastructure that supports program sustainability and replication
Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:
- total cholesterol,
- LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol)
- triglycerides
- blood pressure
