Project Healthy Schools was named University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Center's Support Services Program of the Year in the annual ceremony held on February 10 to recognize the winners for excellence and innovation. Read More.
We will be adding eight more middle schools in Fall 2014 as part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Building Healthy Communities: Engaging Middle Schools through Project Healthy Schools program. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m., March 14 2014. FIND OUT MORE.
On Monday, December 3, 2013 PHS partnered with the Fuel Up to Play 60 school representative to host a combined program kickoff featuring Roary the Detroit Lion mascot, skits, relay races, videos, and a live DJ/MC. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO
A recent partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM will bring PHS to 20 more middle schools over the next three years through the Building Healthy Communities program. READ THE PRESS RELEASE
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:
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:
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