Healthy Schools Success Stories & Recognition Programs

It is important to acknowledge and share your achievements. Congratulating yourself on your successes motivates you to continue. Sharing achievements publicly also helps other schools - it provides ideas, demonstrates that it can be done, and inspires others. Although not housed on this website, the Michigan Department of Community Health and their Healthy Schools partner organizations have made available two additional online recognition and sharing tools:

1. Healthy School Environment Recognition Program (HSERP) - All Michigan schools can complete and submit an online application form. Schools that achieve one of five levels of recognition based on the answers they provide are formally recognized each year. To find out more about the program, visit the HSERP website.
   
   
2. School Success Stories - Sharing healthy school success stories is another way to improve the health environment of Michigan schools. When you share your school's success, you help other schools make improvements by providing concrete ideas as well as inspiration. When you learn about other schools' successes, it offers proven ideas and approaches for your school.
   
   The Michigan Healthy School Success Story website provides an efficient and effective way for schools to share their success stories and benefit from each other's experience. The website includes an easy online form for submitting success stories. Schools can submit as many success stories as they wish.
   
   Over 200 success stories submitted by Michigan schools have been published on this website. Success stories are organized by topic area or category to help schools easily find the ideas that are of the most interest and use. Visit the School Success Story website to submit your success story or to read about the success of other schools.