YSAPPA Program Archive YSA09

Know Your Body School Health Program
Earnst L. Wynder, Heather J. Walter & Roger D. Vaughan

Know Your Body (KYB) is a skills-based, teacher-delivered comprehensive health-promotion program for grades K-6 developed by the American Health Foundation (AHF). The program's motto is "Nobody Takes Better Care of You Than You." The primary goal of the program is to provide students with the knowledge, attitude, skills, and experience necessary to make positive health choices. Students are instilled with a belief that they are responsible for their own health, thoughts, feelings, and actions. The KYB program consists of five basic components: (1) skills-based health education curriculum (grades K-6*), (2) teacher/coordinator training, (3) biomedical screening, (4), extracurricular activities, and (5) program evaluation. The curriculum and the teacher/coordinator training are the "core" components; the other components are optional "enhancements".

An average of 60 sessions take place per year for each of the grades K-6. The lessons last approximately 2 hours and are spaced about a week apart. The program can possibly be implemented outside a classroom setting.

* One grade level is included with this program package. Please contact us regarding which grade level you want included with your order (650-949-3282). Additional grade levels may be purchased.