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Richland County School District One and Palmetto Health
(South Carolina)
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| Goal: |
Improve the physical, emotional and academic well-being of students, parents, faculty, staff and community residents. |
| Strategy: |
Create partnership between public benefit corporation comprised of three highly respected hospitals and 15 schools serving students and families in need of health care and academic enrichment. |
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Build a business and school team that work together to build links between student and community health and student achievement.
Create character-building activities that include school tours, career fairs, health care job shadowing, JROTC and Health Care Scholarships, Leadership Reaction Course, and college guidance and career development activities.
Implement programs including lunch buddy, stress management, career day, health fair, CPR training, and health and safety assemblies.
Utilize need for improved health care as a vehicle for introducing students to career opportunities.
Teams establish goals and meet monthly to review progress.
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| Results: |
Grades and attendance are up, discipline referrals are down.
Tangible measures to improve health have been significant, including 323 students and adults trained in CPR, 425 screened for high blood pressure, 90 trained to administer the blood pressure tests and 79 had blood screenings.
Partnership has been sustained over many years, growing from a relationship between Baptist Medical Center and A.C. Flora High School in 1992 to relationship involving Palmetto Health (the product of a merger) and several other schools.
Students received JROTC and Health Care Scholarships.
Students participating in the Leadership Reaction Course have developed leadership skills and have shown an increase in grades and participation in school activities.
Palmetto Health provides 2,664 volunteers and 959,040 volunteer hours.
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