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Each year, K-12 schools in Indiana teach 1.12 million students. (Source) On a typical school day, students spend almost half their waking hours at school learning, socializing, eating and getting physically active. This makes schools an excellent place to help students learn the knowledge and skills they need to live a healthy lifestyle as an adult. This website gives school-based professionals the resources and assistance needed to create a school environment that supports health and learning.

In 2023, the Indiana Department of Health’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity (DNPA) received a five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of school-age children and adolescents. Through this funding, the Indiana School Health Coalition was formed after merging with the former Healthy Schools Action Team and this resource hub was created.

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This project was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number CDC-RFA-DP-23-0002, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent Health (DASH), Program Development and Services Branch. Contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.