New York
The New York State Department of Education receives funding from CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to
- Conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
- Implement effective policies, programs, and practices to avoid, prevent, and reduce
sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to HIV infection,
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy.
- Promote coordinated school health policies, programs, and practices with an emphasis on physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use prevention.
Facts and Figures for New York
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Youth Online: Interactive Data for New York
School Health Profiles
School Health Policies and Practices Study
HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that provide parents and
families health information to increase parent and family knowledge of HIV,
STD, and teen pregnancy prevention.
Activities
- Disseminate monthly newsletter to school health professionals on health
information and resources to increase parents and families knowledge of HIV, STDs,
and teen pregnancy prevention.
- Collaborate with community-based organizations regionally to facilitate linkages
with schools to improve and increase parents, families, and students access to HIV, STDs,
and teen pregnancy prevention services.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that provide parents and families
health information to increase parent and family knowledge of HIV, STD, or teen pregnancy
prevention
Table
[pdf 4.2M] |
Map† [ppt] |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the lead
health education teacher received professional development during the past 2
years on all of the following:
- Describing how widespread HIV and other STD infections are and the
consequences of these infections.
- Understanding the modes of transmission and effective prevention
strategies for HIV and other STDs.
- Identifying populations of youth who are at high risk of being
infected with HIV and other STDs.
- Implementing health education strategies using prevention messages
that are likely to be effective in reaching youth.
Activities
- Offer HIV/AIDS online course to school health professionals and administrators
focusing on the prevention of HIV infection within the context of a supportive learning
environment and a coordinated school health approach.
- Provide professional development to school health professionals and administrators on
the development and implementation of school health policies that support standards-based
practices in school health education.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education
teacher received professional development recent on four key
HIV prevention topics
Table
[pdf 4.2M] |
Map† [ppt] |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the
lead health education teacher received professional development on at least
six of the following during the past 2 years:
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with physical, medical, or
cognitive disabilities.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students of various cultural backgrounds.
- Using interactive teaching methods for HIV prevention education,
such as role plays or cooperative group activities.
- Teaching essential skills for health behavior change related to HIV
prevention and guiding student practice of these skills.
- Teaching about health-promoting social norms and beliefs related to
HIV prevention.
- Strategies for involving parents, families, and others in student
learning of HIV prevention education.
- Assessing students’ performance in HIV prevention education.
- Implementing standards-based HIV prevention education curricula and student
assessment.
- Using technology to improve HIV prevention education instruction.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with limited English
proficiency.
- Addressing community concerns and challenges related to HIV prevention
education.
Activities
- Provide professional development to school health professionals and
administrators in selected high-risk targeted regions on linking student achievement
and success to a coordinated school health approach focused on HIV, STD, and teen
pregnancy awareness and prevention.
- Develop standards-based resources for school health professionals and
administrators on teaching essential skills for positive health behavior change by
decreasing students’ risky behaviors.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education
teacher received professional development during the 2 years before the survey on at least
6 of 11 key HIV prevention topics
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt] |
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Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco (PANT) |
Physical Activity
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools
that teach about all of the following in a required course:
- Physical, psychological, or social benefits of physical activity.
- Health-related fitness (i.e., cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition).
- Phases of a workout (i.e., warm-up, workout, cool down).
- How much physical activity is enough (i.e., determining frequency, intensity, time, and type of physical activity).
- Developing an individualized physical activity plan.
- Monitoring progress toward reaching goals in an individualized physical activity plan.
- Overcoming barriers to physical activity.
- Decreasing sedentary activities such as television viewing.
- Opportunities for physical activity in the community.
- Preventing injury during physical activity.
- Weather-related safety (e.g., avoiding heat stroke, hypothermia, and sunburn while physically active).
- Dangers of using performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids.
Activities
- Collaborate with the New York City Department of Education on the creation and
promotion of a School Leader Manual for promoting excellence in health and physical
education programs.
- Partner with Onondaga - Cortland - Madison Counties BOCES (OCM BOCES) to
compile information and provide tools to support
what school districts are teaching related to benefits of physical activity, individual
goal setting, and individual physical activity plans.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that taught 12 key physical activity topics in a required course
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt] |
Nutrition
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in
which the lead health education teacher received professional development on nutrition
education and dietary behavior during the past 2 years.
Activities
- Collaborate with New York City Department of Education staff to develop an online
professional development for health educators to insure quality standards-based nutrition
education.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education teacher received
professional development during the 2 years before the survey on nutrition and dietary
behavior
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt] |
Tobacco
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in
which the lead health education teacher received professional development on tobacco-use
prevention education during the past 2 years.
- Partner with the regional NYS AHPERD and regional Boards of Cooperative
Educational Services to provide professional development on physical education,
nutrition, and tobacco prevention education to health teachers.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education teacher received
professional development during the 2 years before the survey on tobacco-use prevention
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt]
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Coordinated School Health |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that have a
group (e.g., school health team) that helps plan and implement school health
programs, with representation from 10 or more of the following:
- School administrators.
- Health education teachers.
- Physical education teachers.
- Mental health or social services staff.
- Nutrition or food service staff.
- Health services staff (e.g., school nurse).
- Maintenance and transportation staff.
- Student body.
- Parents or families of students.
- Community.
- Local health departments, agencies, or organizations.
- Faith-based organizations.
- Businesses.
- Local government.
Activities
- Provide in-depth technical assistance to build broad-based district-level school
health councils and school-based teams in districts with high health and academic needs.
- Partner with the New York City Department of Education to enhance and expand
support of coordinated school health in New York City Schools.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that had one or more than one group (e.g., a school health
council, committee, or team) that offers guidance on the development of policies or coordinates
activities on health topics with representation from at least 10 of 14 groups
Table [pdf
4.2M] |
Map† [ppt] |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that have ever
assessed their policies, activities, and programs by using the School Health
Index or a similar self-assessment tool in any of the following areas:
- Physical activity.
- Nutrition.
- Tobacco-use prevention.
Activities
- Provide professional development to school health coordinators and school health teams on how to conduct the
School Health Index in regions throughout New York State.
- Worked with local schools to implement school health improvements based on findings from the
School Health Index.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that ever used the School Health Index or other self-assessment
tool to assess their policies, activities, and programs in physical activity, nutrition, or
tobacco-use prevention
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt] |
New York is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that
provide parents and families health information to increase parent and family knowledge of
any of the following health issues:
- Tobacco-use prevention.
- Physical activity.
- Nutrition and healthy eating.
Activities
- Disseminate information via a monthly newsletter to school administrators on
best-practice approaches to engage parents and families in healthy school change.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that provided parents and families health information to
increase parent and family knowledge of tobacco-use prevention, physical activity, or nutrition
and healthy eating
Table [pdf
4.2M] | Map† [ppt] |
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† The complete PowerPoint and PDF documents are found
here. The PowerPoint documents range in size from 200-230K.