Check out our NEW Healthy Schools Program Resource Guide for an overview of what HPEPH offers to your school community. This includes prepared presentations, lending kits, support for becoming a healthy school and links to additional resources to support the health and well-being of students.
Here’s a video to help you navigate the educators section of our website to find all our great evidence-based resources for your classroom, school and families.
Health and education are linked. Healthy young people are better learners and are more likely to complete their education. Those with a good education are more likely to have better health status. This page details the Healthy Schools Program.
The Important Role of Schools
Promoting well-being is one of the core goals of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Achieving Excellence vision. Schools are tasked with developing learning environments that promote and support student well-being – to focus not just on academic success, but also on the whole child so that they may reach their full potential.
The New HPEPH Healthy Schools Program
This program has been developed based on input from local educators, principals, support staff, and school board staff. Our 2024-2025 Healthy Schools Program Resource Guide provides an overview of services and supports available through HPEPH.
With the Healthy Schools program, schools will receive:
- Clinical services such as immunizations, sexual health clinics, tobacco and vaping cessation, mental health, vision screening and oral health screenings provided directly within schools.
- Curriculum supports and more through health promotion resource guides, based on the Ministry of Education’s Foundations for a Healthy School Framework, which uses a whole school approach to address health topics in the classroom, school and community. These health topics are:
- Healthy Eating
- Human Development and Sexual Health
- Immunization
- Infection Control
- Mental Health Literacy
- Oral Health
- Parent and Family Engagement
- Physical Activity
- Personal Safety and Injury Prevention
- Road and Off-Road Safety
- Substance Use, Addiction and Related Behaviours
- Sun Safety and UV
- Violence and Bullying
- Vision Screening
- Newsletter inserts, social media messaging and roll-up banners to bring awareness to the school community regarding relevant health topics.
- Educator resource kits designed to support educator in teaching the health-related curriculum in a fun and interactive way. Book one online by clicking here.
- Supports to create healthy schools in partnership with students, school staff, families and community partners.
Check our our 2024-2025 Healthy Schools Program Resource Guide for a complete summary of services and supports available through HPEPH to help you become a healthy school!
Do you have questions?
Connect with us by filling out the Healthy Schools Program contact form.
