The Healthy Edit
Welcome to the Healthy Edit! A podcast focused on — you guessed it — health and wellness, but from the perspective of HealthCorps, a national not-for-profit dedicated to teen wellness.
On this season of the Healthy Edit, you’ll be hearing directly from our staff, students, and other health advocates to discover the secret to what makes our wellness programming so impactful, inclusive, and sustainable and how you – just like our teens – can make health happen.
Since 2003, HealthCorps has worked in high-need schools with a mission to end health inequity by providing health and wellness resources to students, faculty, and families.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @healthcorps and visit www.healthcorps.org to download free resources. For our teen specific resources, visit @teensmakehealthhappen on Instagram.
The Healthy Edit
Keeping Students and Faculty Healthy as They Return to School | Episode 1
As students and faculty return to school – physically and virtually, their health is at the forefront of the national conversation. In the inaugural episode of Healthy Chats, Amy and her guests discuss the role technology can play in keeping kids healthy and schools open — as well as the need to keep teens from feeling isolated as we move into the fall.
Guests include Dr. Pedram Salimpour, a pediatrician, member of HealthCorps Board of Directors, and the CEO and founder of Pierce Health Solutions, focused on the creation of novel health delivery systems for Native American Tribes; Sharpstown (Texas) High School Athletic Director Carlos Quintero; Jaclyn Miller, HealthCorps Coordinator at Purcell High School in Oklahoma, and Jared Flamm, Kinsa Health VP of Growth. All are dedicated to keeping students healthy. And all are engaged in HealthCorps and also discuss the #SaveTheStudents campaign — https://www.healthcorps.org/savethestudents
You can send a Safe Student Kit to a student at one of our participating HealthCorps Schools and a second kit will be sent for a classmate matched by a generous donor. That package includes:
• A connected thermometer
• Four (4) reusable masks
• HealthCorps Program Resources
• A school-wide program to monitor symptoms and protect from outbreak
HealthCorps has partnered with Kinsa to monitor for outbreaks and prevent the spread of illness with their connected thermometers and digital screening program that prompts daily fever and symptom screenings to ensure only healthy students go to school. If a fever or symptom is present, families are reminded to stay home and guided to seek appropriate care and treatment to get better faster. The addition of a face covering is known to significantly reduce transmission, especially critical for asymptomatic cases which scientists suggest could be increasingly relevant in young carriers of the virus. By equipping families with these simple tools, schools can feel more confident in their ability to reopen, and parents can feel safe sending their kids to school.
With your support, we will do our part to ensure students are healthy and able to learn this fall. https://www.healthcorps.org/savethestudents