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| Rick and Lanie Bayless will be at Healthy Schools Campaign's Cooking up Change conducting cooking demonstrations from their new cookbook. Click the image above to learn more or to purchase tickets to the June 9 event! |
On March 24, the Chicago Public Schools officially adopted a single source purchasing initiative for cleaning products and supplies, which includes a number of HSC’s recommendations. Most notably, this purchasing program includes Green Seal certified products.
The Green Seal standard has widespread acceptance among governmental and industrial purchasers. This criteria for evaluating general purpose cleaners states that products: shall contain neither carcinogens nor reproductive toxins; are not combustible or corrosive to the skin and eyes; limit ingredients that contribute to the production of photochemical smog, tropospheric ozone, or poor indoor air quality; and are readily biodegradable and are in concentrate form. The cleaners cannot contain mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, nickel, selenium, alkylphenol ethoxylates, dibutyl phthalate and ozone-depleting compounds. For more information contact Guillermo Gomez at ggomez@healthyschoolscampaign.org.
The Healthy Schools Campaign’s Healthy, High Performing School Building Taskforce has been meeting regularly to develop a Guidance Document for healthy and energy efficient school construction. Consisting of over 35 individuals from 5 state agencies and representatives from the nonprofit community, universities and the private sector, this taskforce has begun an intensive process of developing a draft document. The anticipated completion date for this document is August 2005. For more information contact Mark Bishop at mark@healthyschoolscampaign.org.
Healthy Schools Campaign Events
We
are pleased to announce that celebrity chef Rick Bayless and daughter
Lanie will be joining us at Cooking
up Change, our third annual benefit on June 9. They will
be giving cooking demonstrations from their new cookbook, Rick
and Lanie’s Excellent Kitchen Adventures.
Cooking up Change is going to be a great event full of delicious healthy food and fun and will be held at Kendal College’s state-of-the art Riverworks Campus in Chicago. For tickets, sponsorship information or just more information on the event, Click Here or email Claire Marcy at claire@healthyschoolscampaign.org.
Linda Pietens, our School Nurse Advisor, has been traveling the state to speak to school nurses about the important role they play in promoting student wellness. So far Linda has participated in meetings at all the Critical Issues Conferences and has many conferences and meetings scheduled for the near future.
If you are in the area for any of these meetings contact Linda at linda@healthyschoolscampaign.org for more information about her efforts to support healthy schools.
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| Representative Karen May and HSC Staff Mark Bishop show off a new copy of the Resource and Action Guide for Healthy Schools. |
For more information on our Resource Guide or to download/order your copy, visit our website at www.healthyschoolscampaign.org.
The panel included Linda Pietens, HSC’s School Nurse Coordinator, Amber Donell from Perspectives Charter School and Amanda Kreiss from the Chicago Teachers’ Center. Claire Marcy from the Healthy Schools Campaign introduced and moderated the discussion.
Panelists discussed the challenges and triumphs involved in addressing school environmental health issues. Ms. Pietens spoke of the importance of involving school nurses in efforts to improve indoor air quality and school food, Ms. Donnell spoke of Perspectives’ mission and work over the past year to make school food healthier, and Ms. Kreiss described the curriculum and activities designed and coordinated by the Chicago Teachers’ Center.
Panelists then fielded questions on topics including student acceptance of healthy school food, the use of indoor planters in the classroom, and how to effectively involve nurses when assessing the environmental health activities taking place at schools.
Thanks very much to Sandra Lehner and her colleagues for putting together this event!
Healthy Schools Campaign Board Member LaDonna Redmond has been making a lot of news lately, and her efforts were featured in the April 4 issue of Time Magazine. Redmond’s nonprofit organization, the Institute for Community Resource Development (ICRD), is focused on bringing fresh and organic food to the predominantly African American residents of Chicago’s Austin community. ICRD coordinates a farmer’s market, runs a working farm, and has partnered with Austin schools and several universities to improve Austin’s food environment, with a focus on improving the food served to students in Austin’s schools. Congratulations to everyone at ICRD for this much-deserved recognition. To read more about LaDonna Redmond and ICRD, visit www.icrdusa.org or read the Time Magazine article here.
HSC board members, Phyllis Pelt, MS, RN, ILCSN has been recognized by the National Association of School Nurses as the 2005 recipient of the School Nurse Educator Recognition Award. The School Nurse Educator Award recognizes an outstanding school nurse educator for significant contributions to school nursing. . This award will be presented at the NASN annual conference. Phyllis is the Director of the University of Illinois School Nurse Certificate Program and was part of a team that developed the first online master's level Illinois school nurse certification program. The program remains the only online certification program in Illinois, allowing school nurses to advance their education and earn certification regardless of their distance from an institution of higher education.
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| Download the HSC school wellness policy kit. |
The candidate should have 5-7 years experience in marketing communications, with an emphasis on the management of publications and web sites, special events and public relations. Good writing skills are required. Experience with advocacy and public awareness in the nonprofit arena is preferred. A background in public health or health care, children’s issues and/or education will be helpful. Database management and graphic design skills a plus.
For more information and to view the full job description visit our website at www.healthyschoolscampaign.org/about/employment.
Has
Cookie Monster given up sweets?
Thursday, April 7, 2005, CNN
'Sesame Street' advocates healthy eating habits.
Schools
bring back longer lunch and recess, see gains
April 2005
Elizabeth Duffrin, Calylyst Chicago
Recess went by the wayside decades ago at most CPS elementary schools.
Today 90 percent give kids only a rushed 20 minutes for lunch, leaving
little if any time for recess, according to a Catalyst survey of 320 schools.
Bridging
The Organic Divide
April 5, 2005
Margot Roosevelt, Time Magazine
All LaDonna Redmond wanted was a healthy diet.
CPS
efforts to improve student health
April 2005
Elizabeth Duffrin, Catalyst Chicago
Student health is becoming a higher priority for the central administration,
which has expanded its health services and programs in schools. HSC Programs,
COOL FOODS and WE MEAN GREEN CLEAN, are mentioned.
Healthy
Schools Initiative
April 1, 2005
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
(IEPA) today awarded School Greening grants to 32 communities across the
state.
What
the District's Students Breathe
March 31, 2005
Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
At Walker-Jones Elementary School, about a block from where the D.C.
Board of Education meets, irritants such as pigeon and rodent droppings
and mold fouled the air so much that earlier this school year the principal
and others took to wearing face masks...
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