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Welcome to Project Healthy Schools (PHS)
A community-University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) collaborative
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
PHS News
PROJECT HEALTHY SCHOOLS RESPONDS TO REMOTE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
When schools closed due to the new coronavirus, no one knew what lay ahead. The PHS team immediately surveyed school staff, then began creating a health education resources website and videotaping the PHS lessons for virtual use. Learn more.
PROJECT HEALTHY SCHOOLS IS A FINALIST IN 2020 GOVERNOR'S FITNESS AWARDS
The Michigan Fitness Foundation announced that Project Healthy Schools is one of three finalists for the Extraordinary Organization category of the Governor's Fitness Awards. The winners will be announced through a virtual awards celebration some time in August.
COLUMBIA STUDENTS LEARN THAT CHOICES AFFECT THE 'LONG ROAD'
Over the course of about three weeks in each school year, the sixth-grade teachers at the Columbia Upper Elementary School in Brooklyn engage their students in a hands on study of 10 PHS lessons. Read the article.
