§1621n Comprehensive School Health Education Programs

Summary

A federal health agency, working with the Interior Department, may give grants to Indian tribes to build school health programs for children from preschool through grade 12 at schools on reservations. The grants can pay for things like creating health curricula, training teachers, linking school and community health efforts, keeping schools tobacco-free, and programs on nutrition, fitness, mental health, chronic disease and substance-abuse prevention, safety, communicable disease control, and community and environmental health education. The agency must help tribes with technical advice and set rules for reviewing grant applications. Tribes that get grants must send a yearly report showing how many preschools, elementary, and secondary schools and how many students were served, any new curricula created, how many teachers were trained, and how parents, community members, and community health workers took part. The Interior Department, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, must also create the same kind of health program for BIA-run schools, train teachers, coordinate with local services, and promote tobacco-free schools. Congress authorized $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1993 and whatever amounts are needed for each year 1994 through 2000.