Health & Wellness Newsletters
Health & Wellness Newsletter – Prioritizing Health this Season
November 22, 2022
Welcome to this month’s Health & Wellness newsletter! As we enter this holiday season, it is important to prioritize all aspects of your health: physical, mental, and emotional.
As the days get shorter and the nights get longer, check in with your community. Seasonal depression, or it’s clinical term: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is a type of depression that occurs with the changing of the seasons that affects up to 10% of the United States population.
Health & Wellness Newsletter – Who’s at the Table?
October 25, 2022
October is National Farm to School Month! This month is dedicated to celebrate food education, schools gardens, and lunch trays filled with healthy, local ingredients.
Health & Wellness Newsletter – Celebrating National Recovery Month!
September 27, 2022
September is National Recovery Month. More than 20 million people are recovering from substance use disorders in the United States. By bringing awareness to substance abuse and recovery, we can commit to helping prevent substance abuse disorders, supporting those who are still struggling, and providing people in recovery with the resources they need to live full and healthy lives.
Recovery doesn’t happen overnight, and we are here to support all that take part in the journey.
Health & Wellness Newsletter – Preparing for a Healthy New School Year
August 24, 2022
Welcome to this month’s Health & Wellness Newsletter! The start of a new school year is a busy time for families, students and teachers. Parents are focused on gathering all of the essentials their kids will need for the first time at school or entering a new grade, teachers are busy preparing their classrooms for in-person instruction, and kids are excited to see their friends again! For all, it’s an important time to rejoin the activities that enrich their lives.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Improving Adolescent Mental Health
May 24, 2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As we continue to live in the “new normal,” we have become aware of the unprecedented mental health crisis affecting our youth as well as adults. Use this month to learn about mental health and how to fight the stigma to help the ones in your community get the resources they deserve.
This month’s newsletter shares many resources on mental health: how to prioritize one’s mental health, resources for the classroom, and more.
CAN Health and Wellness Newsletter – Helping Mitigate Substance Misuse
April 26, 2022
Welcome to our Health and Wellness newsletter! This month, we are getting ready to celebrate National Prevention Week starting on May 9th. While this awareness week comes once a year, developing strategies to support the youth in your community should be year-round. In this newsletter, we are sharing multiple resources not only to support the holistic health of the youth in our lives, but also to understand that teachers, administrators, site coordinators, and all other educators that support students should take care of themselves as well.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Celebrating National Nutrition Month® & More!
March 22, 2022
This March, we are preparing for the summer and next school year with tons of new resources to implement into programs and classrooms, as well as celebrating National Nutrition Month®!
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Celebrating School-Based Health Care Awareness Month!
February 22, 2022
Welcome to the second installment of CAN’s Health and Wellness newsletter of 2022! This February, we are celebrating School-Based Health Center Awareness Month! All children and adolescents deserve to thrive and grow into the young adults we know they can be. But too many struggle because they lack access to health care services. School-based health care is a fantastic solution, bringing health care to where students already spend the majority of their time: in school. When health and education come together, great things happen —and our youth are allowed to heal.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Starting Off On The Right Foot
January 25, 2022
Welcome to the first installment of CAN’s Health and Wellness newsletter of 2022!
As we continue to share content surrounding the Whole Child Health and Wellness Vision as well as other approaches that prioritize the cumulative wellness of students in our Expanded Learning programs, don’t forget to think about your mental and physical wellbeing and it’s importance to not only yourself, but the youth you are serving.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Promoting COVID-19 Vaccines through School Sites
November 23, 2021
Welcome to another issue of our revamped Health & Wellness Newsletter! In this installment, we continue to share content surrounding the
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter- It’s Time for a Safe Transition Back to School
October 27, 2021
Welcome to CAN’s Health & Wellness Newsletter! In the third installment of our revamped Newsletter, we will continue to share content surrounding the Whole Child Health and Wellness Vision as well as other approaches that prioritize the cumulative wellness of students in our Expanded Learning programs. As schools navigate the fall school year and new funding opportunities in California to support young people, operating safely is a priority, for all students and educators.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Centering Healing in Schools
September 28, 2021
Welcome to CAN’s second installment of our revamped Health & Wellness Newsletter! We will continue to share content surrounding the Whole Child Health and Wellness Vision and initiative, our Health and Wellness Action Team, as well as other approaches that prioritize the cumulative wellness of students in our Expanded Learning programs.
CAN Health & Wellness Newsletter – Exploring Mental and Physical Health
August 24, 2021
Welcome to the first installment of CAN’s revamped Health & Wellness Newsletter! We will be sharing content surrounding the Whole Child Health and Wellness Vision and initiative, our Health and Wellness Action Team, as well as other approaches that prioritize the cumulative wellness of students in our Expanded Learning programs.
Register Today for the AB86 ELO Grant Convening
As part of the Assembly Bill (AB) 86 COVID-19 relief package $4.6 billion will be distributed to LEAs through the Expanded Learning Opportunities Grant, which can be used for extended instructional learning time, learning supports, health, counseling mental health and social emotional learning, community learning hubs, supports for credit deficient pupils, and training for school staff.
Whole Child Health and Wellness Strategic Direction and Call to Action
April 2021
CAN is excited to release our Statement of Strategic Direction Toward Equity-Driven Whole Child Health and Wellness. This document is a culmination of the work of the Whole Child Health and Wellness Collaborative (consisting of multi-sector stakeholders from health, mental health, social services, substance use prevention/intervention/treatment, education, expanded learning, and child and family advocacy) throughout 2020. The multi-sector-informed Statement of Strategic Direction outlines a vision where every child is well known, well cared for, and well prepared to thrive. The statement also includes ”shared equity strategies” that can be implemented from the state to the site-level through cross-sector partnership with Expanded Learning Programs to meet critical needs and advance Whole Child Health and Wellness. It is accompanied by a shorter Call To Action.
CAN Health and Wellness Newsletter – Whole Child Health and Wellness Launch
February 4, 2020
Many thanks to those who joined the December 18 launch of the Collaborative to Advance Whole Child Health and Wellness. It was an extraordinary day and we deeply appreciate the gift of time that you made to the launch of this strategic planning process.
We are happy to provide a brief two-page summary of the amazing work that was accomplished that day with links to the full body of notes.
CAN Health and Wellness Newsletter – October is National Farm to School Month
October 15, 2019
Join thousands of schools, early care and education sites, farms, communities and organizations across the country as they celebrate food education, school gardens and lunch trays filled with healthy, local ingredients.
Introducing the Health and Wellness Action Team: New Name, Bolder Vision
August 2019
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Action Team (formerly the Nutrition and Physical Activity Committee) is one of CAN’s longest running field-based Committees.
NuPA Newsletter – May is National Bike Month
May 2019
Change it up and ride your bike! Metrolink in the Los Angeles County will be kicking off National Bike Month by biking together rather than driving alone! Bicycling to work means fewer cars on the road and less pollution. It can also save you money while providing a fun and safe way for kids and adults to get in much needed physical activity. An often overlooked, but extremely important aspect of Bike Month is bicycle safety.
NuPA Newsletter – March is National Nutrition Month!
March 2019
National Nutrition Month® is an annual nutrition education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign, celebrated each year during the month of March, focuses on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.