TSET Board of Directors Awards Healthy Incentive Program Grants to Schools

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    TSET Board of Directors Awards Healthy Incentive Program Grants to Schools

     

    OKLAHOMA CITY (January 23, 2019) – The TSET Board of Directors on Tuesday approved incentive grants for schools that have passed policies to help students learn healthy habits early and promote health for students, teachers and staff through the TSET Healthy Incentive Program.

    TSET funds were awarded to 21 school districts and 2 school sites as part of a comprehensive effort to prevent and reduce the leading causes of death in Oklahoma – heart disease, stroke and cancer by preventing unhealthy behaviors before they take root. The TSET Healthy Incentive Program for schools works to prevent and reduce the leading causes of death in Oklahoma – heart disease, stroke and cancer by preventing unhealthy behaviors before they take root.

    Grants are awarded to districts and schools that have implemented key strategies aimed at creating an environment that encourages students, faculty and staff to eat better, move more and be tobacco free. District and schools choose how grant funds will be used on projects that promote healthy behaviors or physical activity.

    All public school districts that meet grant criteria are eligible to apply for a TSET Healthy Incentive Grant. School districts must successfully adopt health promoting policies before individual schools sites are eligible to apply.

    Policy requirements for the TSET healthy incentive grants include a comprehensive tobacco-free policy that prohibits smoking, vaping and using smokeless tobacco on school grounds and a wellness policy that improves the nutrition environment, increases physical activity and promotes employee wellness. Research shows that healthy behaviors established during childhood carry through to adulthood.

     “We are proud to recognize school districts that have made the healthy choice the easy choice,” said TSET Interim Executive Director Julie Bisbee. “By promoting and supporting healthy behaviors, school districts are encouraging students and staff to live a healthy lifestyle and prevent tobacco use and obesity before they take root. These small changes add up and create an environment where healthy choices become the norm.”

    TSET Healthy Incentives Program for schools - district awards

    GRANTEE

    County

    AWARD AMOUNT

    Bennington Public Schools

    Bryan

    $12,000

    Bluejacket Public Schools

    Craig

    $12,000

    Carney Public Schools

    Lincoln

    $15,000

    Comanche Public Schools

    Stephens

    $20,000

    McAlester Public Schools

    Pittsburg

    $30,000

    Moyers Public Schools

    Pushmataha

    $15,000

    Navajo Public School

    Jackson

    $20,000

    Norman Public Schools

    Cleveland

    $100,000

    Rocky Mountain School

    Adair

    $15,000

    Sasakwa Schools

    Seminole

    $15,000

    South Rock Creek

    Pottawatomie

    $13,500

    Tahlequah Public Schools

    Cherokee

    $15,000

    Tonkawa Public Schools

    Kay

    $20,000

    Valliant Public Schools

    McCurtain

    $17,000

    Varnum Public Schools

    Seminole

    $15,000

    Waurika Public Schools

    Jefferson

    $15,000

    Weatherford Public School

    Custer

    $30,000

    Wellston Public Schools

    Lincoln

    $17,000

    Westville Public Schools

    Adair

    $25,000

    White Rock School

    Lincoln

    $15,000

    Wright City Public Schools

    McCurtain

    $12,000

    Total

     

    $448,500



    TSET Healthy Incentives Program for schools – school site awards

    GRANTEE

    County

    AWARD AMOUNT

    Ben Franklin Stem Academy

    Muskogee

    $7,000

    Monroe Elementary

    Oklahoma

    $15,000

    Total

     

    $22,000