Highmark Healthy High 5 encourages parents to support their children in developing healthful habits that will reinforce lifelong wellness. Parents may choose to become partners in Highmark Healthy High 5 program activities for each of the five areas of focus: nutrition, physical activity, grieving, self-esteem and bullying prevention. Your efforts will help to return healthful dividends.
Highmark Healthy High 5 programs concentrate on reaching children and adolescents at school, at home and within their communities. The programs conducted in schools need the support of parents at home in order to change behavior. At the same time, as your children learn and develop healthy behaviors, they can act as change agents for good health to their friends and families.
Here are some ideas on how you can be a part of Highmark Healthy High 5 and promote a healthy lifestyle to your children.
To help parents and others tackle bullying, we created "Take the Time. Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying." As part of this special bullying prevention information campaign we partnered with television stations across Pennslyvania to promote awareness of bullying prevention efforts. We held bullying prevention town hall meetings and television stations aired special programs about bullying and ways to prevent it. You can learn more by reading our Bullying Prevention pages and our "Take the Time. Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying" pages below.
Bullying Prevention Tips for Parents
See also Relational Aggression.
Highmark Healthy High 5 has provided free programs for schools to give your children the tools and skills needed to make healthy choices.
Learn more about the following programs:
During the past five years, school buildings in the communities served by the Highmark Foundation have been awarded grants to improve their nutrition education and/or provide opportunities for physical education or lifelong activity. The requests for funding have been very creative — snow shoeing programs in regions with heavy snow; mountain biking; using Wii and Dance Dance Revolution; even personal music selections on iPods to improve workouts. If you would like to learn more about the innovative programs that have been put into practice, see Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge: The Best Practices for ideas to use in your school.