Identifying Opportunities to Support Child Health and Wellbeing Across Intersecting Contexts
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ISBNPA 2024 Agenda
| Tuesday, May 21, 2024 |
| 2:15 PM - 2:55 PM |
| Room 213 |
Details
Child health is influenced by interconnected factors spanning individual, interpersonal, community, institutional, and policy levels. The goal of our research is to establish how these diverse contexts, including family homes, schools, and community settings, intersect to create opportunities for enhancing child health and wellbeing, particularly within rural and Native American communities. These communities are notable due to their unique assets, such as robust social networks, juxtaposed with well-documented disparities in health, economics, and education. This presentation will cover multiple ongoing projects that are attuned to policies affecting child health and wellbeing across these intersecting levels.
First, I will describe our work to understand how the shift from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week may precipitate shifts in supports provided across family, school, and community settings. This school schedule has been adopted with increasing frequency in the United States as a policy response to constrained budgets and ongoing teacher shortages; however, little attention has been given to changes in food access, physical activity opportunities, social support, family schedules, household finances, and other critical factors that impact child health and wellbeing.
Second, I will highlight work stemming from longstanding partnerships with multiple Native American communities to advance child health through the development, testing, and dissemination of the Turtle Island Tales family wellness program. I will focus on our current work to amplify the impact of this family-focused evidence-based intervention by strategically leveraging home, school, and community settings to increase reach and ensure equitable implementation.
First, I will describe our work to understand how the shift from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week may precipitate shifts in supports provided across family, school, and community settings. This school schedule has been adopted with increasing frequency in the United States as a policy response to constrained budgets and ongoing teacher shortages; however, little attention has been given to changes in food access, physical activity opportunities, social support, family schedules, household finances, and other critical factors that impact child health and wellbeing.
Second, I will highlight work stemming from longstanding partnerships with multiple Native American communities to advance child health through the development, testing, and dissemination of the Turtle Island Tales family wellness program. I will focus on our current work to amplify the impact of this family-focused evidence-based intervention by strategically leveraging home, school, and community settings to increase reach and ensure equitable implementation.
Chair
Paul Estabrooks
Professor & Associate Dean
University Of Utah
Speaker
Emily Tomayko
Assistant Professor
Montana State University
