Growing Healthy

Grades: K-6

Contact: Elaine M. Sheehan, M.Ed.
National Center for Health Education
Phone: 212/594-8001 x. 31

To Order: Nasco
901 Janesville Avenue
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
Phone: 800/551-3488, FAX: 920/563-8296

Growing Healthy emphasizes one health education topic each year throughout elementary school. Drug information and resistance skills are infused into health units. There is a strong emphasis on cooperative learning and goal setting. Material on conflict resolution and violence prevention is integrated into the curriculum. Growing Healthy was found to reduce tobacco use 29 percent by the ninth grade.

Drug Strategies, 1996
US DOE Expert Panel, Promising Program