Schools arming to prevent heart attacks
Denver will soon place heart defibrillators in every school in the district. But should schools be doing more to safeguard young hearts?
Category archives for: Healthy Schools
Parents urge DPS to end herbicide use
A group of parents Monday asked members of the Denver school board to rethink district policy of spraying chemical herbicides on school lawns.
Summer ripening in school gardens
You might think school gardens are dormant now but there’s lots of growth, from serving more ‘food deserts’ to two DPS schools becoming farms
Sports camp shows what’s possible
A summer sports camp in Aurora opens the potential of lifetime healthy activity for physically disabled youngsters
Boy promotes Fast Food Free world
A 13-year-old Denver boy is the unlikely founder of a national campaign to stamp out fast food
Future cloudy for reducing emissions
About 2,000 Colorado school buses have been retrofitted to cut down on diesel fumes – but that leaves 3,000 that haven’t been
Better mental health through hip-hop
Check Your Head, a locally-created class for adolescents, links good mental health practices with art forms that resonate with teens.
Vegetarian school seeks diverse menu
The challenge at SOAR charter school is finding ways to keep its all-vegetarian menu tasty, kid-friendly, nutritious and low in cost
Building a ‘wellness’ school
A Colorado non-profit is betting a focus on health and wellness can help close the academic achievement gap
HIV program speaks to young Latinos
¡Cuídate!, a culturally-based HIV prevention program, takes traditional Latino values and reframes them to promote safe sex practices.
