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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, M 8 AY 31-JUNE 6, 2019 BTR
Assemblyman Michael Benedetto held a press conference with the WELL Campaign and its
partners on Thursday, May 16 outside his district offi ce. Schneps Media / Patrick Rocchio
Assemblyman Benedetto,
WELL Campaign promote
youth health and wellness
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
The WELL Campaign, a statewide
advocacy effort to develop the health
and well-being of all students visited
Throggs Neck on Thursday, May 16
to speak about their work and release
their new research on a school wellness
programs in school districts
statewide.
We want to create a statewide movement to get
people interested in youth wellness as a whole and
making it work in all of our schools. Then once we
do that, we have to start a second push to get the
needed funding.
Michael Benedetto
Assemblyman
The WELL Campaign used their
fi ndings to call on the state to take a
leadership role in prioritizing school
wellness, said Claire Raffel, leadership
of the WELL Campaign, with an
eye toward creating a basic framework
for programs that address students
physical, emotional and psychological
well-being that then could
be fi ne-tuned to suit the needs of local
schools.
“Our state government must take
a leadership role in prioritizing
school wellness,” said Raffel.
The press conference took place
outside Assemblyman Michael Benedetto’s
district offi ce, with Raffel saying
that Benedetto is very helpful in
introducing wellness legislation in
the NYS Assembly.
Benedetto said he trying to have a
NYS Department of Education wellness
coordinator position fi lled that
has been vacant for nine years, and
wants to create a statewide effort beginning
here in the borough, around
programs that provide all students
the nutrition they need so they are
ready to learn.
“We want to create a statewide
movement to get people interested in
youth wellness as a whole and making
it work in all of our schools,” said
Benedetto. “Then once we do that, we
have to start a second push to get the
needed funding.”
Benedetto said that the state already
has health standards, and that
it is up to the local school districts to
develop curriculum that addresses
these standards.
Kelly Moltzen, Bronx Health
REACH project manager, who attended
the press conference, said a
model wellness program for youth,
which Benedetto and the WELL
Campaign are advocating for, could
include nutrition education, healthy
school food and comprehensive
school physical activity program.
The comprehensive program includes
physical activity before and
after school, physical education and
parental involvement, she said.
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