Harkin on Wellness 2024 Submission Form: Wellbeing in Schools

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Update: Deadline extended to Wednesday, January 10

The prevalence of mental health issues has been increasing dramatically in recent years, particularly in the wake of massive social disruption caused by COVID-19. This led the nation’s leading child health organizations and the US Surgeon General to declare a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health, an emergency that has both serious immediate consequences and ominous implications for the future. Though many ideas and approaches have been proposed to address this crisis, it is a challenge to implement any particular solution at a scale significant enough to truly tackle the problem.

We believe the K-12 school system can be a key vehicle for changes that can positively impact children’s wellbeing across the United States for several reasons. First, as the location where children spend the largest portion of their time outside of the home, activities at schools that promote wellbeing have been shown to have an important impact on children’s academics and mental health. And second, school curricula that engages students in hands-on, collaborative whole health learning can impart an awareness of factors favorable to their own wellbeing, mental health, and academics that can reverberate through their school years and on into adulthood.

For this reason, the 2024 Harkin on Wellness Symposium will focus on Wellbeing in Schools and will discuss innovative approaches for improving wellness and health in schools that can mitigate the challenges facing students, teachers, and school leaders. These approaches include activities like mindfulness practices and spending time outdoors, as well as learning skills through school gardens, teaching kitchens and cognition-bolstering physical education. We will bring together advocates, policymakers, education leaders, teachers, pediatricians, and practice innovators from around the country to address whole child wellbeing approaches, to review the scientifically supported best practices, and to consider the case for placing health and wellbeing squarely at the heart of our education system’s mission to prepare students for successful lives.

A key part of Harkin on Wellness every year is recognizing the innovative work taking place across the country. As in previous years, we will select up to ten nominees to receive the Harkin on Wellness Award from Senator Tom Harkin, a champion of integrative approaches to wellness during his career in the U.S. Senate. We invite you to answer the questions below in order to be considered as a Designee for this year’s Harkin on Wellness Awards.

Please submit your responses by Sunday, January 14. If you have any questions, please contact Adam Shriver at adam.shriver@drake.edu .

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Name of the organization/agency and name of the program (if applicable):
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Please describe the initiative or program:
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Please outline how your organization has worked to improve the wellbeing of students or young people.
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Please outline the reach of your program (how many people has it or can it impact?):
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Please list any outcomes information (health, economic, environmental, and/or social):

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Please send fliers, publicity, and resource materials you believe exemplify the initiative or program to adam.shriver@drake.edu .

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