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Questions: Chapter 4

Continuing Education Questions for Chapter 4: Family and Community Involvement in School Health

Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs

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Area of Responsibility: Responsibility II—Planning Effective Health Education Programs

The following questions are directly related to Chapter 4: Family and Community Involvement in School Health, written by P. Carlyon, W. Carlyon, and A.R. McCarthy, in Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs.  

The answer sheet is available by clicking here: Answers: Chapter 4

Please answer the following questions:

1. The definition of family and community involvement in school health at the beginning of Chapter 4 is a partnership among schools and:

1. Families, community groups, and individuals
2. Students, teachers, and coaches
3. Families, physicians, and hospitals
4. Families, churches, and day care providers

2. Students do well in school when:

1. Schools involve families
2. Their communities have accessible resources and supportive networks
3. Schools, families, and communities deliver clear, consistent messages
4. All of the above

3. Families and communities can support each other and contribute to the success of coordinated school health programs by:

1. Providing time, experiences, and resources
2. Ensuring that students and their families receive needed health services
3. Sharing facilities
4. All of the above

4. Barriers mentioned in Chapter 4 include all of the following except:

1. Using only English to communicate with parents, even with those who don't read English
2. Lack of transportation or child care
3. Parents' belief that children need to learn to "make it on their own"
4. Disagreement with the school health program's purposes

5. School-community partnerships can be formal or informal. An example of an informal partnership is:

1. A contract with a hospital to provide on-site health services
2. Participation by a community organization's representative on a Healthy School Team
3. A community organization providing materials for health education classes
4. All of the above

6. School-community partnerships can contribute to the success of coordinated school health programs through:

1. Businesses "adopting a school"
2. Joint planning that helps ensure that communities address the needs of young people in a coordinated way
3. Community agencies and schools opening their facilities to one another
4. All of the above

7. Successful school and community partnerships must:

1. Have clear, concise responsibilities and expectations for each participant
2. Have short-term goals and be able to demonstrate progress quickly
3. Have external funding
4. All of the above

8. National organizations and federal agencies can support family and community involvement in coordinated school health programs through:

1. Positive statements
2. Supportive statutes and regulations
3. Technical assistance
4. All of the above

9. One model for integrating parents into activities that promote the health and educational achievement of students is:

1. Segal's service learning model
2. Comer's School Development Model
3. Johnson and Johnson's Circles of Learning
4. Joy Dryfoos's full-service school model

10. Community members delivering health messages that are consistent with the messages of the school health program is an example of which of the following?

1. An action step for implementing family and community involvement in school health
2. A strategy for addressing controversy
3. A barrier to family involvement
4. All of the above

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