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How to get involved and earn national recognition for your middle school
Keeping students in school and learning is a win-win for any school community. So, in an effort to reduce absenteeism, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services and The Soap and Detergent Association have joined forces to create the "Healthy Schools, Healthy People – It's a SNAP!" (School Network for Absenteeism Prevention) program.
SNAP is an innovative, self-directed hand hygiene program designed especially for middle school students. The program provides tools to easily integrate handwashing activities into the curriculum and allows students to create fun handwashing awareness projects that can improve student and staff health and earn national recognition!
Before its national rollout, the SNAP program was piloted in middle schools across the country in the winter and spring of 2002 – 2003. A review panel evaluated all projects that were entered in the SNAP National Recognition Program in the spring of 2003. Three schools earned national recognition for outstanding student efforts to promote hand hygiene and infection control.
In 2005, SNAP received the Award of Excellence in the Associations Advance America (AAA) Awards Program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives.
Each year, national recipients receive an award package including an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC, for three people, recognition during a special awards ceremony, cash awards and free product for their school.
To receive a free DVD about the program, please email your request to nbock@cleaning101.com.
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