Celebrating America’s Healthiest Schools: Carlos Santana Arts Academy
Learn more about how schools across the country are promoting the whole health needs of students and staff with profiles on some of America’s Healthiest Schools award winners.
Celebrating America’s Healthiest Schools: Swallows Charter Academy
Learn more about how schools across the country are promoting the whole health needs of students and staff with profiles on some of America’s Healthiest Schools award winners.
Celebrating America’s Healthiest Schools: Audubon Elementary
Learn more about how schools across the country are promoting the whole health needs of students and staff with profiles on some of America’s Healthiest Schools award winners.
Health Guidance for Going to School
A new guide from Kaiser Permanente, Attendance Works, and the National Association of School Nurses on when to stay home from school and when to return to school.
National Healthy Schools Collaborative Back-to-School Guide
The National Healthy Schools Collaborative (NHSC) is a collective impact group of organizations working in health and education brought together by Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools. Part of the mission is to coordinate practices for health in education so every school…
Healthy Schools Can Create More Racially Equitable Communities
A new brief commissioned by Kaiser Permanente examines how healthy schools may help address racial inequities across five key areas: health systems, public education, juvenile justice, environmental conditions, and family income. For each area, the brief reviews related racial inequities…
Healthy Schools Can Mitigate Ongoing Racial Inequities in Education
A new brief commissioned by Kaiser Permanente that highlights the relationship between education and health, and outlines how healthy schools can address six common education inequities.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Impact on brain, body and behavior (IHDCYH Talks)
This short animated video talks about how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact lifelong development.
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime (Nadine Burke Harris)
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the…
Thriving Schools resources
These no-cost resources help to ensure that all teachers, staff, and students have the support they need to thrive — in learning and in health.
