Welcome to Project Healthy Schools (PHS)

A community-University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) collaborative

PHS Featured!

Project Healthy Schools is featured in the "Voices from the Field" portion of the American Public Health Association's Public Health Education and Health Promotion Winter Newsletter. Read the newsletter

PHS Poster Wins 2^nd Place

The PHS team won second place at the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MiCHR) 2013 Community Engagement Symposium for their poster entitled, "Project Healthy Schools: Creating a Sustainable Middle-School-Based Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity."

Think Your Drink

In March, Chartwells Food Service and PHS partnered to bring healthy beverage demos to Ann Arbor middle schools. Students sampled two kinds of infused waters -- orange and cucumber mint -- and learned how much sugar is in popular soft drinks. Read this article from the AAPS News.

ANN ARBOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS GARDEN WORKSHOP

PHS was instrumental in forming the AAPS Farm to School Collaborative which organized the first-ever AAPS School Garden Workshop held on March 4. The event brought together representatives from 13 school gardens. Read this article from the AAPS News.

Project Healthy Schools (PHS) provides a school-based program to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Focusing primarily on sixth grade students, PHS aims to stem the tide of this epidemic by:

teaching youth healthy habits
developing healthy school environments
creating an infrastructure that supports program sustainability and replication

Healthy youth who continue to practice healthy lifestyles will grow into healthy adults with fewer risk factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illness. Project Healthy Schools is one of the few school-based programs that have demonstrated significant improvements in both health behavior and cardiovascular risk factors, such as reductions in:

total cholesterol,
LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol)
triglycerides
blood pressure