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Healthy Communities That Care, a youth development initiaitve currently in 9 Livingston County school districts, brings together parents, youth, and community partners to build positive, safe environments for all youth; increase developmental assets, while reducing risk factors, to minimize adolescent involvement in problem behavior; enhance youth connectedness to school and community; and strengthen community collaboration. 

Healthy Connections newsletter is a quarterly health & wellness newsletter for schools from the Genesee Valley Health Partnership (GVHP). Each issue of Healthy Connections offers health and wellness related news, announcements, educational information, upcoming events, and practical and useful health tips from GVHP partners.

HIP HOP (Healthy InPut Heathy OutPut) is a childhood wellness initaitive that assists school staff in developing interventions and programs that will support life long wellness starting with school age children.

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Keeping Youth Healthy Guide is a database of Livingston County programs targeted at youth in Kindergarten through twelfth grades. This guide provides program information on the following topics: nutrition and physical activity; alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; teen pregnancy prevention, youth development; mental health; and bullying / violence prevention. Training programs for school professionals and community members are also listed. In addition, the risk and protective factors that are addressed by each program are listed in the back of the guide.

Livingston Wellness Partnership is a local resource dedicated to a healthier Livingston County in partnership with worksites, schools, and communities. The LWP assists organizations in adopting practices that promote change. This will be accomplished through assessment, planning, and education to support individuals making healthy lifestyle choices.

Second Step is a science-based, violence prevention curriculum coordinated by the GVHP within most local schools districts.