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OUR CURRICULUM-HEALTH SMART CURRICULUM

HealthSmart

HealthSmart, produced by ETR Associates, a not-for-profit organization, is a K-12 comprehensive health education program designed to address the 6 risky behaviors identified by CDC and lay the foundation for the practice of healthy behaviors in children and youth. The program incorporates the principles of effective health education programs and prepares students to meet the National Health Education Standards. HealthSmart also meets or exceeds the New York State Standards for Health Education.

The HealthSmart program:
• Targets clearly defined health behavior outcomes.
• Supports development of protective factors and reduction of risk factors.
• Builds on the cultural strengths of students and their families to support development of health behaviors.
• Establishes healthy social norms and expectations.
• Builds on a foundation of theory-based interventions shown to be effective in shaping healthy behaviors.
• Supports students' acquisition of critical health, social and personal skills.
• Features interactive and cooperative learning approaches.
• Accommodates a range of learning styles.
• Reinforces and strengthens previously learned skills and behaviors.
• Involves families in supporting their children's efforts to establish healthy behaviors.
• Provides training and support for teachers.

HealthSmart is the result of more than 6 years of research, development, field-testing and revision by a team of nationally recognized prevention experts in school health education. ETR, widely recognized for its development of evidenced-based programs, is currently seeking funding for a longitudinal evaluation of HealthSmart.