HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM
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| Alt Text: Photos from Health & Wellness Program Students exercising; Flyer for program; Health Fair; Flyer |
Everyone knows health is important to us but I wonder, what have you done to keep yourself healthy, both physically and mentally?
Today I want to share with you the Health and Wellness Program at San Mateo Adult School and the leadership opportunities it provides for our students.
What is the Health and Wellness Program at San Mateo Adult School?
When a school has healthy teachers, students and staff, the school establishes a good student campus environment. Properly designed health programs can increase learning efficiency, enhance ethics, reduce stress, and provide students with more opportunities to volunteer and work through connections and mutual visits to the community.
The Health and Wellness Program at San Mateo Adult School provides various kinds of leadership positions which are included in the Eat Healthy Be Active health classes, our Hot meal service, and Zumba dancing classes during break times.
When San Mateo Adult School ESL student Kimie Soto took the Eat Healthy Be Active class, teacher Stephanie took all students to visit the San Mateo Senior Center.
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| Kimie Soto in a black apron at the Senior Center |
At that time she got information on how to become a volunteer there. She applied for the lunch program and a volunteer coordinator emailed her a few months later. She visited once and had an interview.
The first few times, she was a little nervous but all of the staff were kind and told her how to do it. She now thinks volunteering is a great chance to involve native communities!
A second leadership opportunity the and Wellness program provides is volunteering for our weekly evening hot meal service for students.
This partnership between San Mateo Adult School and the non-profit organization Peninsula Food Runners, who organizes the food donations, offers students the opportunity to participant in a servant leadership role.
Studies have shown that attending classes on full stomachs help students to have better. Volunteering their time one Thursday a month for 3 hours, students prepare and serve the hot meals which help the student population to improve their studying environment and health status.
A third example of leadership in the Health and Wellness program is the story of Hannah.
She wanted to organize Zumba dancing exercises during the break time because she was a professional dancer in her country before she came to the US. First she talked to teacher Stephanie about her plan and looked for the help from SC.
Stephanie promoted at both teacher and student meetings. Then, as you can see, as part of Health & Wellness Program , every Tuesday at break time, teachers and students do dancing on campus to the music .
Finally, the Health and Wellness Program will be organizing a student health advisory committee this summer, the members of which will be the school health community leaders that inform the program moving forward.
Through these experiences, it is easy to see how the Health and Wellness Program at our school,develops the talents and leadership skills of students ,so they are able to have a platform to use their skills.
Their courage and action not only set an example for other students, but also deeply affect their participation in the leadership activities to improve the quality of their lives and others.
This is the significance our Health & Wellness Program creates.
Now let me introduce Claudia Asselborn who will speak about leadership opportunities through the ESL City Government Academy Program.
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