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District Wellness Coordinator

The Wellness Coordinator position, is a part time, Vermont Education Health Initiative (VEHI) grant funded position. The primary responsibility of the Wellness Coordinator is to promote staff wellness. However, the Wellness Coordinator, in partnership with administration, is also responsible for supporting Colchester School District's Wellness Policy. The existing policy and practices reflect a high priority on healthy outcomes for all students and staff.


For more information about any of the wellness initiatives and resources provided in this website please contact the Wellness Coordinator:

Constance L. Gavin, MA
District Wellness Coordinator
CMS - Family and Consumer Science Teacher
Colchester Middle School
gavinc@csdvt.org  (preferred)
802-264-5800

Also, every CSD school has a School Wellness Leader:

CHS- Danielle Grise, grised@csdvt.org
CMS- Ginger Epstein, epsteing@csdvt.org  
MBS- Tammy Frieberg, friebergt@csdvt.org
PPS- Dawn Bissionnette, bissionnetted@csdvt.org  and Mary Axworthy, axworthym@csdvt.org
UMS- Darlene Mulcahy, mulcahyd@csdvt.org and Judy Lilley, Lilleyj@csdvt.org 

For information about Wellness Events, please contact the School Wellness Leader.


News:
The CSD Employee Wellness program is nationally recognized for the second year in a row!

Colchester School District has been recognized as the 2011-2012 Silver School Employee Wellness Program winners by the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE www.dhpe.org), a membership association of high level professionals from public health departments. 

As a Silver winner, they will:

  • Receive a $500 grant to use for their School Employee Wellness program from DHPE
  • Receive a banner recognizing their achievement to proudly display   
  • Be featured on DHPE's school employee wellness website, and
  • Be invited to National Conferences to make presentations about their successful School Employee Wellness program.

School employee health is one area that DHPE focuses its work on with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Click on the pdf below to download a copy of the press release.
sew_dhepcolchester_-_press_release1.pdf
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