Supporting a Healthy Return to School: Resources for Teachers, Parents and Students
Shape Your Future provides FREE resources for a healthy school year
OKLAHOMA CITY — As the new school year approaches, families are busy buying supplies and making last-minute summer memories. Healthy habits can sometimes get overlooked in the rush. Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET), offers free resources to help teachers, parents and students maintain healthy lifestyles throughout the school year.
“It’s common to lose track of healthy routines during the summer months. Back-to-school season is an opportunity to reset and develop new, healthier habits,” said Julie Bisbee, TSET executive director. “Shape Your Future provides Oklahoma families with the resources to do just that.”
Healthy habits can improve well-being and academic performance as children return to a classroom routine. Studies show a significant link between healthy behaviors and academic success — including grades, standardized test scores, graduation rates and attendance. The 2019 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) highlights the widespread health behaviors among children that improve their long-term health. ShapeYourFutureOK.com offers families physical activity tips, recipes, nutrition guides and support all year long.
Shape Your Future also provides free resources to Oklahoma teachers to inspire healthy living in the classroom, like posters shipped at no cost, grade-specific worksheets, seasonal activity guides and blogs. Everything is available year-round at ShapeYourFutureOK.com/Teachers.
“Healthy living may seem intimidating, but small changes have a huge impact over time,” Bisbee said. “Shape Your Future can help Oklahomans take those small steps toward better health.”
Visit ShapeYourFutureOK.com to get started.
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Shape Your Future is a community health education intervention that encourages Oklahomans to eat better, move more and be tobacco free. Shape Your Future strives to educate parents, teachers, caregivers and all Oklahomans on how to make the healthy choice the easy choice. Find more information online at ShapeYourFutureOK.com.
The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) serves as a partner and bridge builder for organizations shaping a healthier future for all Oklahomans. TSET provides leadership at the intersections of health by working with local coalitions and initiatives across the state, cultivating innovative and life-changing research and working across public and private sectors to develop, support, implement and evaluate creative strategies to take advantage of emerging opportunities to improve the public’s health. To learn more, go to Oklahoma.gov/TSET.
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