Excellence in School Wellness Awards to 4 City Connects Boston Schools
Last month, Boston Public Schools (BPS) bestowed Excellence in School Wellness Awards to 13 schools, four of which were City Connects schools. […]
Tag: school health
City Connects Year in Review: Boston
This week on the blog we’ll be looking at the year in review across our 45 sites in three geographic areas: Boston […]
Boston Moves for Health challenges Boston Public Schools to increase student physical activity
Last week, Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino announced several exciting developments that will improve student health and wellness in Boston Public Schools (BPS). […]
It’s National Health Education Week!
The week of Oct. 15-19 is National Health Education Week (NHEW), presented by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). This year’s […]
New Study Shows School has Large Role in Kids’ Health Disparities
A study published in the August 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine by a consortium led by Boston Children’s […]
City Connects Poster at APA Meeting
City Connects team member Michael Capawana, a Counseling Psychology graduate student in the Lynch School of Education, is presenting a poster at […]
City Connects School Wins Health Award
The John F. Kennedy elementary school in Jamaica Plain, a City Connects school, is being honored by the Alliance for a Healthier […]
Community Partners Health & Wellness Breakfast: Video Posted
Over on our YouTube channel, we’ve posted video of the speakers’ presentations from our May 11 community breakfast, where the topic was […]
Community Partner Breakfast: A Focus on Health & Wellness
Today, City Connects hosted our annual spring gathering of community partners. The meeting, “Creating Dynamic School Partnerships to Increase the Health and […]
Speaker Slides from the Optimized Student Support Conference
As promised, we are sharing the slides that our speakers presented on Nov. 5 at the Optimized Student Support: Best Practices for […]