Project Measure Up

Participating Independent School Districts throughout Bexar County

Project Measure Up is a comprehensive surveillance program that will establish an anthropometric baseline and allow for trend analysis regarding the prevalence of youth overweight and obesity in the public schools in Bexar County.

The goal of Project Measure Up is to decrease the prevalence of youth obesity in Bexar County by providing leadership in planning and partnership related to surveillance research of the impact of school-based programs and policies targeting youth obesity prevention.

Developed in January 2007

Project Measure Up is available to the 15 school districts in Bexar County.

Over the past 20 years overweight children ages 6-11 have more than doubled, and those who are ages 12-19 have more than tripled. Help promote and implement positive health changes because our youth, families and community are worth it!

As the project moves forward, participating ISDs will receive tangible incentives that will support school infrastructure that will encourage healthy programming and policy adoption within the respective ISD. Participating ISDs will have streamlined services and maximized resources that will help fulfill federal and state mandates.

PMU will establish an anthropometric baseline, and allow for trend analysis regarding the prevalence of youth overweight and obesity across the independent school districts throughout Bexar County. The information will be collected annually from a random sample of a total of 300 children in elementary, middle and high schools in each participating district. This is important to ISDs because it will measure the performance of the current youth obesity programs and policies that the districts have allowed to be implemented within their schools.

School Health Coordinators Coalition (SCH)—comprised of two representatives from each ISD: the administrator of the district’s school health programs and/or a mental health counselor for the district or other district-level staff.

Youth Obesity Prevention Partners Council (YOPPC)—comprised of program managers of local community-based youth obesity prevention programs that are currently working within an ISD or have the capacity to work within school districts offering one of the following: in-school health or nutrition programming, after-school programs and/or employee wellness training.