This past weekend, Oregon’s Health Education Cadre of Trainers began its’ 13th year! The cadre was initially funded through Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) HIV funds. In 1999, the funding was augmented with state tobacco and Safe and Drug Free school funds. In 2003, increased DASH funding provided even more resources. Currently, our funding is not provided by DASH funds, or State Department of Education funds. We are funded by a variety of partners, including the Office of State Fire Marshal (injury and fire prevention), DHS Problem Gambling (also supports other risk behaviors), Oregon Dairy Council (nutrition ed), and the GROVE/Packard Foundation; WISE grant (Working to Institutionalize Sexuality Education). With about $120,000 this school year, we are offering training events at no cost to teachers, administrators and other educators/partners around the state.

We have offered/currently offer (at no cost):

• Health Education Foundation Training (Effective Practices in Health Education, Laws/Policies related to Health Education, National and Oregon Health Education Standards and Oregon Healthy Teens Survey) (Half Day)
• Using Health Education Standards and Assessment in the Classroom (2 full days)
• District Mapping and Alignment (2-day, K-12 school district training for scope and sequence)
• Curriculum Trainings within the area of Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drug Prevention, Safe and Drug Free Schools, Sexual Health Promotion, Fire Awareness, Injury Prevention, Comprehensive Health Education Curricula Programs and more! All curriculum trainings include the following components:
  • Effective Practices in Health Education Activity
  • Curriculum overview
  • Teach-backs of Lessons within Curriculum Program
  • Answering difficult questions in the Classroom
  • Alignment to Oregon Health Education Content Standards
  • Implementation Barriers and Supports

Over the years, the cadre has an average of 15 trainers during a school year who commit annually. Trainers include K-12 teachers, district prevention specialists and curriculum directors, retirees and professors of higher education. The co-coordinators (myself and Kari Stuhmer) plan a full weekend fall retreat, a one day meeting in the winter and a full day meeting in spring (spring meeting focused on using data, our post evals, to drive decisions into the next school year).

During our fall retreat at Caldera http://www.calderaarts.org/ this year, we offered professional development and training to our trainers. We had a great time! We learned more about the WISE grant, problem gambling high school assessment prompts that one of the trainers developed, shared training opportunities, networked and shared ideas of how to train others around the health education standards (Oregon is aligned to the NHES).

We hope to have a website for the cadre up soon! We were funded $12,000 to design/develop one… so look for it or let me know if you are interested in being notified once it’s up! jess@bogliconsulting.com

Yesterday was our state AAHPERD conference. Congratulations to all the wonderful educators that received awards. It is always great to be around so many rock stars that do great work with our students to make their lives healthier.

As always- it was great to see colleagues and friends again. I can hardly wait for the Healthy Kids Learn Better Cadre retreat Oct 16-18 at Caldera, outside of Sisters-  http://www.calderaarts.org/

I am starting to really depend on this group of professionals to be there as experts in our field of school health, but also as friends. I can hardly wait for next weekend. My husband is the cook for 22 of us- we have quite a menu planned:

Friday night snacks

Saturday breakfast- homemade granola, fruit, yogurt, milk

Saturday lunch- Middle Eastern theme- (homemade) baba and hummus, pita, feta, tabouli

Saturday dinner- Homemade Butternut Squash Soup and homemade White Bean and Kale soup, salad and fresh bread

Sunday breakfast- PANCAKES! (and fruit)

Gigi is in charge of Saturday night activities, Dawn will bring a fun twist as always and we are expected to bring some article of Halloween costume… hmmm. Might be time to bring on some practical jokes/tricks!