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Health and Wellness
The UFT is dedicated to working with schools to build healthier communities. In this day and age, with childhood obesity and other health issues on the rise, it is of the utmost importance that educators work closely with community groups to improve students’ health. To that end, the UFT, in coalition with a number of partner organizations, secured a one-year grant to establish a flagship health and wellness initiative, Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities, which involved Bronx staff, students and parents in school-based wellness programs that included the Cookshop and Move-To-Improve programs. We are committed to implementing these programs in schools throughout the city. We are also engaged in a number of other programs with our partners. We hope this webpage, with the various resources it offers, will help more educators become involved in promoting the health and wellness of their colleagues, students and communities.
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For more information on health and wellness programs in city schools, contact Lisa Lau at 212-598-7763 or by e-mail at llau@uft.org.
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Nearly 1,000 educators and parent coordinators participated in the New York City Food Bank’s daylong CookShop hands-on training program, where they learned how to implement healthy nutrition classes for children and parents in their schools. It was held at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on Oct. 22, and focused on how to make healthy food choices on a limited budget.
