Evaluation of the National School Health Coordinator Leadership Institute.(Research Papers) From: Journal of School Health | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Ottoson, Judith M.; Rivera, Mark; Stevenson, Beth; Streib, Greg; Thomas, John Clayton | COPYRIGHT 2004 American School Health Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In 1999 the American Cancer Society (ACS) launched the National School Health Coordinator Leadership Institute, a groundbreaking initiative designed to enhance and invigorate school health in the nation's schools by training individual school health coordinators to act as change agents. The Institute consisted of three, week-long summer training sessions, and three, shorter midyear "booster" sessions, with the various sessions designed to assist one cohort of participants (n = 50) to build ...

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