Surgeon General Murthy at 2024 Wellness in Schools Symposium
This year's "Harkin on Wellness" symposium, focused on ensuring that schools employ all proven and effective measures to … Read more...
In Focus
NIH’s Neighborhood Schools
In early September 2024, I had the chance to introduce WholeHealthED and emphasize student wellbeing to the School Health Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, the large suburban … continue reading
“Harkin on Wellness” Agenda and Speakers Announced
April 3, 2024 Parents Hall, Olmsted Center at Drake University The Harkin Institute has announced the agenda and … Read more...
WholeHealthED, Harkin Institute to highlight “Wellbeing in Schools”
WholeHealthED has been invited to co-develop the program for Harkin Institute’s 2024 “Harkin on Wellness” symposium, to … Read more...
WholeHealthED and Kennedy Forum’s Alignment for Progress
As part of an extraordinary year-long national effort to address the discouraging state of the nation’s mental health … Read more...
Whole Voices
Creating a Movement of Movements to Improve Kids’ Wellbeing
A conversation with CEO Amy Bantham: “The school garden is the perfect metaphor: a place of growth and growing kids managing their own whole health learning prospects. Kids learn to work together, to trust each other, and to take agency for their projects hands-on; and as we like to say, brains-on and hearts on as well.”
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Collaborative, Social, Hands-on and Engaged. A Unified Well-being Learning Experience.
From a conversation at our inaugural symposium in June of 2018, the idea became a living whole health studies program by December. Implemented at four south Jersey middle schools in the spring of 2019.
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Having worked alongside Taylor Walsh on projects dedicated to Whole Person Health, I applaud his leadership of WholeHealthED and his passion for reaching our nation’s youth—educating and empowering them to take far greater control of their health … continue reading
Susan BenigasExecutive Director, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
