What makes a great event? The people! It was so good to see so many of you join us on Saturday for a day of networking and training in school wellness issues ranging from Food Safety to Tech related injuries! We had over 100 attendees along with University of Houston Faculty speakers & College of Nursing Faculty, physicians from Memorial Hermann’s Iron Man program and UT Minimally Invasive Surgery! The day started with a healthy breakfast and a self-care talk by UH Counseling faculty and was followed by the opening of the WELLCON expo. This year, vendors such as our platinum sponsors, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Marathon Kids, Shape Up Fort Bend joined with community organizations, businesses and non profits to share the best in school wellness programs and services. Attendees were exposed to a variety of topics regarding risk prevention in K-12 schools including food safety, “tech neck, how to do a bike rodeo and becoming an advocate. The session culminated with a Q&A session with FBISD school experts in Coordinated School Health. Then came lunch! Thirty nine schools were recognized with the WATCH school Wellness Award at a special lunch (underwritten by United healthcare) for their wellness programs. The fun wasn’t over yet! After lunch, school nurses were able to refresh their clinical skills and learn about drug overdose from Texas Opioid Naloxone Initiative and concussion with Dr. Bhojani from Memorial Hermann Iron Man. The training was rounded out by 4D experience in the UH Nurse Simulation lab, underwritten by Fort Bend Community Prevention Coalition.
WELLCON would not be possible by the continued support of our AWESOME sponsors and volunteers! A personal thank you United Healthcare and Stephanie Kellam for the awesome and healthy lunch for our WATCH school wellness champions! Please use your WHOVA app to thank at least one of the sponsors -they are the reason the conference tickets are so low! A comparable conference that I recently signed up for was $250 or higher- with no food! Not to mention there is no need for sharing a hotel room or traveling to another city! Help us continue to make WELLCON training available locally- so we can continue to make the program fun and interesting for you! And don’t forget to reach out to them and see what they can bring to your school for health events.
WELLCON helps us create new regional partnerships!
Shout out to our New Partnerships!
Sandra Castro at DairyMax not only provided great cooler bags to stuff at WELLCON, she also is partnering to make it easier to do both WATCH School Awards and Fuel Up to Play 60! Check out the FUEL Up to Play 60 WATCH Flyer here!
Free $$$ for running clubs…MarathonKids and FBMSA are excited to announce a FORT BEND COUNTY ONLY Grant supporting new running clubs in the Fort Bend Area. This is open to all Fort Bend County Schools. Don’t miss out on this exclusive offer and we thank the physicians and physician spouses living and working in the county for the support!
Last but not least…..*** The WHOVA app will be active for 6 months- so go ahead and use it to contact people and download information you need.
WATCH School Wellness Award Registration for 2018-9 now open!
If you haven’t signed up yet, do it now! We had 39 WATCH awards given out at WELLCON, for a total of 57 schools in the FBISD district receiving at least one award since we started! OUR GOAL IS ALL 80 FBISD Schools. We are looking forward to expanding the award to include all of Fort Bend County! If you need a little motivation, the new FBISD wellness policy is based on the WATCH award components, and we will help you each step of the way with resources, grants and partnership! So subscribe to the blog and keep up on all the information you can use for your health promotion events. Contact Stephanie.Kellam@fortbendisd.com for more information and a new online link to fill out the form.
DEA Drug Take Back Event is this weekend! 
Time to clean out your medicine cabinet! FBISD will once again be a disposal site for the DEA National Drug Take Back Program. The event will be held this Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 10-2 pm at the FBISD Administration building parking lot located at 16431 Lexington Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77479. The event is free. The purpose of the program is to keep unused, unwanted or expired medications away from our children. The drugs are disposed of in an environmentally friendly way by the DEA. FBISD PD, FBISD Safe and Drug Free Schools Department and the Fort Bend Community Prevention Coalition are sponsors of this event. For further information go to the DEA website.
Last year, the FBISD DEA drug take back had 171 cars and close to 800 pounds of drugs in 20 garbage bags collected!
TDA Grant Opportunity to Expand Farm Fresh Fridays in Schools!
Research shows that children who are familiar with growing their own food tend to eat more fruits and vegetables! Public schools in Texas may be eligible to receive grant funds to support existing garden programs or create new ones. The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) is offering the Expanding the 3E’s Nutrition Education Grant (X3E) to help expand Farm Fresh Friday activities, which include, but are not limited to school gardens, taste testing, farmer visits, and more! TDA is now accepting X3E grant applications. Check out the X3E Flyer here.
For details, please visit the 3E’s Grant Programs Web page. Learn more about Farm
Fresh Fridays by visiting FarmFreshFriday.org.
This grant is a large district wide ( or campus) grant. Maybe we can group interested schools and get a $10,000 grant or more to support school gardens locally. Send an email to us below if you have any interest. The deadline is Dec 6, so please reply ASAP ( by 10/30) – Nomita
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