Ten Building Blocks to Good Health

Accessing Information

Using reliable resources from home, school, and the community to get valid information and facts.

Practicing Healthful Behaviors

Learning skills to promote an active lifestyle, balanced diet, mental awareness, and social relationships to ensure a healthy, happy life.

Stress Management

Identifying sources of stress and learning how to handle them in ways that promote good mental/emotional health.

Analyzing Influences

Using personal values as well as past knowledge and advice from friends, family, and the media to make choices that are responsible.

Communication Skills

Effectively sharing ideas and thoughts through speaking and body language. Attentive listening is an important part of good communication.

Conflict-Resolution Skills

Having the ability to end a disagreement or keep it from being blown out of proportion. In other words, knowing what to do or say to calm the situation rather than make things worse.

Refusal Skills

Having the ability to say no effectively in pressure situations.

Decision Making

Making healthy choices and taking responsibility for those decisions.

Goal Setting

Setting a realistic goal and making a plan to achieve it.

Advocacy

Taking action in support of a good cause.