Partnering for Success: How Health Departments Work and How to Work with Health Departments(full document)
Partnering for Success Workshop Script provides an outline and script for a workshop focused on helping participants understand how health departments work. The first 3 hour session introduces participants to the structure and function of state health departments and the programs and divisions within health departments that are relevant to improving school health. The second session looks look at the various roles health departments play in supporting healthy schools.
One Page Summaries
These brief summaries highlight how health departments can help schools in eleven specific areas.
Executive Summary: How Health Departments Work and How to Work with Health Departments
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Overview
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Assessment Tools
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Community Linkages
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Credibility on Health Issues
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Data
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Policy and Environmental Change
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Professional Development
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Promoting Healthy School Policies
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Resources
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Strategic Planning
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Strategies that Work
What Health Departments Can Offer Schools: Support for Health Services