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Health is our most precious gift; without it we have nothing.
And protecting that gift begins with you!
Your physical, mental, spiritual health, and even your community’s health depend on the actions you take each day to protect the gift and to set an example for your kids, your wife, friends, business associates, and extending out to your community leaders and institutions.
Being a Force for Health is made easier when you join The Force for Health® Network.
We have the tools to help you at every level with any kind of project.
What is the Force for Health® Network?
We are a worldwide group of people that care about improving all aspects of health for ourselves, families, and local communities.
We use the Force for Health tools and apps to help find ways to feel better and live in an improved community.
This is a social purpose program, designed and supported by leaders in health care, education, civics, and social work.
There are many ways a person or a community can use the network and be a force for their own health and also a force in their family, workplace, or community to help others.
· It can be used online, in apps, in person, via computer, phone, tablet, or print content
· It all starts with maintaining, regaining, and improving your own health status.
· Find your role below and explore how you can benefit.
What is the Reality Health Games and how do I enroll?
It’s the Olympics for the rest of us, with the events being real world challenges to Move, Learn, Serve, and Earn knowledge, resources, and skills and then share them with others.
You get points for all these activities, and are enrolled in Leagues of competitors similar to you.
This is like combining athletics, academics and gaming into one community improving competition.
How do I get started?
· Everyone can join for free with Force for Health Basics Membership.
· More advanced tools, learning, and double points for prizes happens when you are an Ambassador.
It allows you to take specialty training to get really knowledgable about topics important to you, organize a team to compete with community service projects, and participate in the STEAM Teams programs.
If you wish to lead a group, you join as a Group Leader, where you get advanced training and live support and participation in Group Leader calls and competitions.
Protecting the Gift of Population Health is a Team Sport.
What is your Role?
What Position Do you Play?
How Does Your Community Measure Up?
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My HealthBASICS Report
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What Role Do you Play?
Population Health is a Team Sport
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How well do you know your own body?
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Take this 10-pt SpotCheck and receive a Personal Gameplan for you to get started on your first, healthy SMART Goal with Us
How well do you know your inner systems? Take this challenge quiz to find out!
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Virtual Health Academy & 360° Human Explorer Library
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Wellness Tools, Trackers & Assessments for the entire family
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Reality Health Games Healthy Competition
Resource Guide and Directory
Community Chambers of Health with Mixed Media Solutions
The Force for Health® Network is aligned with the CDC’s Whole School, Whole Child, Whole Community Approach
Physical Education & Physical Activity
The Force for Health® Platform is specifically designed to help PE, Health and Wellness Teachers, who are typically under resourced and not properly supported due to budgets, prioritization or even schedules.
Our systems are designed to encourage everybody to MOVE, LEARN, SERVE and EARN everyday and track their efforts for a chance for prizes and recognition, in a way that meets most PE State Standards, 6-12.
In fact, our Healthy IDEAS STEAM TEAM Challenge currently meets all 8 US Health Standards.
The Force for HealthBASICS Academy is a FREE virtual academy featuring over 200 courses, wellness tools, trackers and challenges specifically designed to increase health literacy levels for ages 13 – 103, both from within the school boundaries and beyond.
Each member will have their own Earn It! Tracker, as they earn coins, badges and certificates by engaging on the site, completing challenges, and interacting with others.
The Force for Health® Network believes that your employees’ physical and mental health levels dictate the quality of output and overall cost of any workforce.
Employees can easily access this resource for both personal health and professional development, while earning credits for their school, region and states.
My Healthy Teacher and My Healthy PE Teachers are both especially designed programs for Teachers to help them learn about how they can maximize the use of these tools for themselves, their families and their classrooms.
The Force for Health® Network is designed to invite all major leading, community stakeholders to the table in what we call our Chamber of Health® Systems to encourage business, healthcare, civic and other community leaders to get involved and ensure high quality k-12 outputs in their own backyards.
Activated communities will have community based Resource Directories, calendars and on-line communities that will be highlighted and featured in the Reality Health Games every year.
They will compete in our VIP LEAGUES for CHANGE in the Reality Health Games to help take community involvement to the next level.
The Force for Health® Network is specifically designed to help support the health needs of the entire family, from both inside and outside the traditional school boundaries.
Family members will also have FREE Community Access to our HealthBASICS content and challenges through our Fit Family FORCE and Senior FORCE Challenges.
If your school is an official Force for Health School partner, you can even use our systems to host a healthy virtual fundraiser and get the whole community involved.
Being part of the Force for Health® Network means that you understand the importance of mutual respect, kindness and empathy.
Our challenges are designed to support and encourage this through the practice of healthier citizenship.
The entire community of staff, teachers, students and families are encouraged to build their confidence levels to be able to make a difference, and can find resources and support along the way.
Counseling, Psychological, & Social Services
The Force for Health® is focused on helping develop the physical, mental and spiritual well being for all of it’s members.
Identifying and addressing the social and emotional needs of both students and staff , through empathy and resiliency training can be important to creating a safe environment.
The Force for Health® Network can be used to educate students, families and their caregivers about chronic health conditions and offer resources and tools to address many issues.
In some cases, the Network can also be used to help coordinate care with external health care providers through partnerships, peer to peer communities, and resource directories
The Force for Health® Academy can also be used to train appropriate school staff on how to provide resources that support students with chronic health conditions
Nutrition, Environment & Services
The Force for HealthBASICS Academy provides both courses and tools to help address the important topic of nutrition AND the need to recognize the special needs of certain students.
Students, teachers and staff can learn more about creating a safe, and healthy environment for everybody.
Ambassadors and Group Leaders will have access to our Virtual Wellness Club that takes Nutritional Resources to the next level
What is Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)?
Source: CDC
The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment that includes, integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors to put into action a whole child approach to education.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child, or WSCC model, is CDC’s framework for addressing health in schools.
The WSCC model is student-centered and emphasizes the role of the community in supporting the school, the connections between health and academic achievement and the importance of evidence-based school policies and practices, covering the 10 general areas found within in the blue
How does the WSCC model help to improve learning and health?
The WSCC model meets the need for greater emphasis on both the psychosocial and physical environment as well as the increasing roles that community agencies and families play in improving childhood health behaviors and development. The WSCC model also addresses the need to engage students as active participants in their learning and health. CDC and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum (ASCD) developed the WSCC model—in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health—to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation’s schools.
What role do families and community agencies play in the WSCC approach?
Family and community involvement in schools is important to the learning, development and health of students. When schools engage families in meaningful ways to improve student health and learning, families can support and reinforce healthy behaviors in multiple settings—at home, in school, in out-of-school programs, and in the community. With help from school leaders, community agencies and groups can collaborate with schools to provide valuable resources for student health and learning. In turn, schools, students, and their families can contribute to the community through service-learning opportunities and by sharing school facilities with community members (e.g., school-based community health centers and fitness facilities).
How can schools use the WSCC model?
Establishing healthy behaviors during childhood is easier and more effective than trying to change unhealthy behaviors during adulthood. Schools play a critical role in promoting the health and safety of young people and helping them establish lifelong healthy behaviors. Every school has a unique set of needs. To better serve their students, school leaders and staff can incorporate the WSCC model components as they see fit. To see the WSCC model in action, visit our Virtual Healthy School.
