Ramon Garza Elementary

Ramon Garza School Healthy Start Collaborative

The goal for the Ramon Garza School Healthy Start Program is to insure the education, health and well-being of students and their families, and therefore, increase the likelihood of the student's academic success. Strategies for accomplishing this goal include increasing protective factors for children and families that promote learning and development of their full potential to becoming contributing members of society.

The five Outcome Areas have been selected and prioritized by the Ramon Garza School Healthy Start Collaborative as areas that need the most improvement. The outcome areas are:

Mental Health
Improved mental health services for children and families that increase family functioning and student support.

Physical Health
Improved physical health care services for children and families that increases student and family wellbeing.

Afterschool Prevention Activities
Increased afterschool programs that prevent gang involvement and pre-delinquent behaviors by students by increasing resiliency and protective factors.

Ensuring Parent/Community Involvement 
Improved student performance/achievement through coordinated efforts by teachers and parents, and increased parent involvement in the student's academic achievement and school.

Program Coordination
Increasing program coordination and access to services, and higher levels of program coordination such as linking services.

Read more about the Healthy Start Initiative or contact Ramon Garza School Healthy Start Program Coordinator Cecilia Torres-Ruvalcaba at torresc@bcsd.com.