WELCOME to the communities section of the Growing Healthy: Youth, Parents and Communities Initiative. This section of our site is for all members of the community - business representatives, faith leaders, elders, agency members, and community leaders - who are interested in helping children to lead a happy, healthy and productive life. This section features innovative ideas for potential school-health-community partnerships. Be sure to check out the One-on-One School-Community Relationships link, which describes just a few of the mutual benefits to communities when they reach out to local schools. You can also find information on the importance of establishing and staying in touch with you area community-school health council.

This section provides some ways in which business and communities can get involved in their local schools. Under Community-School Health Councils, information is provided on development of school health councils, including a rationale for establishing councils, potential commmunity members to partner with, and activities that can be used throughout the process. Under Building Business Support for Health Education, members of the business community can find out the importance of their role in coordinated school health programming, ways in which they can get involved, and other business and community organizations working with NCHE.

Community-School Health Councils

Establishing A Community-School Health Council

Who in the Community Might Partner with Schools?

One-on-One School Community Relationships

Building Business Support for Health Education

A Message to Business Leaders

Adopt-A-School Program

NCHE Business and Community Donors