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Working Toward Coordinated School Health Programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH) works with many national organizations, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the occupied territories, and many local organizations to help promote coordinated school health programs.

The CDC funds states to provide youth with information and skills needed to avoid risk behaviors and to teach students decision-making, communication, and peer-resistance skills. (For more information on the CDC -DASH programs, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/ataglanc.htm 

In addition, The CDC funds many national organizations, including SIECUS, who are working to strengthen schools’ ability to assist state and local organizations to provide HIV prevention within coordinated school health programs.  The following is a complete list of funded organizations (for fiscal year 1999).

• Advocates for Youth

• American Association for Health Education

• American Association for Colleges for Teacher Education

• American Association of Community Colleges

• American Psychological Association

• American Cancer Society

• American College Health Association

• American Medical Association

• American Nurses Association

• American School Health Association

• Association of American Colleges and Universities

• Association of Maternal and Child Health programs

• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

• Bacchus and Gamma Peer Education Network

• Communities in Schools, Inc.

• Comprehensive Health Education Foundation

• Council of Chief State School Officers

• Education Development Center

• Education, Training and Research Associates (ETR)

• Girls, Inc.

• National Assembly on School-Based Health Care

• National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.

• National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

• National Association of People with AIDS

• National Association of State Boards of Education

• National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

• National Center for Health Education

• National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care

• National Conference of State Legislatures

• National Council of la Raza

• National Governor’s Association

• National Education Association - Health Information Network

• National Latina Health Network

• National Middle School Association

• National Network for Youth

• National School Boards Association

• National Youth Advocacy Coalition

• Public Education Network

• Society of State Directors of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

• The College Fund/UNCF

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