School Wellness Programs

School Wellness Council Grant

2011-12 School Wellness Council Grant Awarded
Fifty sites were awarded grants to form or expand a School Wellness Council (SWC). An SWC is a group of representatives who can develop ways to improve the physical activity, nutrition, and wellness of your students and community.

We are proud to recognize the following schools/sites:

Bayard Taylor
Baychester Middle School
BBMS/PS 182
Benjamin Franklin
Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts
Brooklyn ALCs
Caton School
Cypress Hills Community/ PS 89
Doris Cohen
Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School
Entrada Academy
Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology
Harriet Tubman Learning Center
Herbert H. Lehman High School
High School for Law and Public Service
High School for Leadership and Public Service
Manhattan ALCs
Mary White Ovington
Metropolitan Corporate Academy
MS 267
MS 45 Thomas C. Giordano
Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School
New Dorp High School
P79M/Dr. Horan School
PS 6 West Farms
PS 104 The Bays Water School
PS 145 The Andrew Jackson School
PS 155
PS 195Q
PS 20 John Bowne Elementary School
PS 28 Mount Hope
PS 295 Studio School of Arts and Culture
PS 315K
PS 55 The Benjamin Franklin School
PS 64 Pura Belpre
PS 85 Great Expectations
PS 9 Teunis G. Bergen School
PS/MS 95-Sheila Mencher Van Cortlandt School
Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School
Samuel C. Barnes Elementary School
Special Music School
The Active Learning Elementary School - PS 244Q
The Brooklyn Brownstone School
The Family School
The High School for Teaching and the Professions
The School of Integrated Learning
The Sheridan Academy for Young Leaders
Urban Scholars Community School
Washington Irving High School
William Penn Elementary

The SWC grant program offers $2,500 grants as well as information, resources, networking opporunties, and support. Check out the November 8 kickoff program, or take a look at a guidance document to help SWC grant schools get started. To read more about the 2011-12 application, click here, or to review the scoring rubrics or sample application, click the links (Implementation Grant Scoring Rubric, Continuation Grant Scoring Rubric, Sample Application). For more information about what a School Wellness Council (or School Health Council) is and how to start one, click here.

Finally, if you are interested in reading the report about the first year of this exciting grant, click here.