Question 1

What services does Successful Healthy Children offer?

Accepted Answer

Successful Healthy Children offers five core services: Recess and Play Consulting, Mindful Monitoring, Special Education Coaching, School Health and Wellness, and RTI Consulting — serving students, families, educational professionals, and schools across multiple states.

Question 2

Who does Successful Healthy Children serve?

Accepted Answer

Successful Healthy Children serves children, adolescents, families, educational professionals, and schools. They work directly with students and families, provide professional development, deliver community and parent workshops, and advocate for children's rights.

Question 3

What is the Recess and Play Consulting service at Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

Recess and Play Consulting is offered by Dr. Cathy Ramstetter and Dr. Charlene Woodham Brickman, who have over 35 years of combined school and recess experience. They help with policy advocacy at the district or state level, designing quality recess, training staff, mentoring individual students or teachers, and facilitating the LiiNK Project for schools joining the LiiNK movement.

Question 4

How much combined experience do the Successful Healthy Children recess consultants have?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Cathy Ramstetter and Dr. Charlene Woodham Brickman have over 35 years of combined experience in schools and recess, making them among the most experienced recess consulting professionals available to schools and districts.

Question 5

Does Successful Healthy Children help schools advocate for recess policy?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Successful Healthy Children's Recess and Play Consulting service includes advocacy support for recess policy at both the district and state level, helping schools and communities push for stronger protections and standards for quality recess.

Question 6

What is the LiiNK Project and does Successful Healthy Children facilitate it?

Accepted Answer

The LiiNK Project (Let's Inspire Innovation 'N Kids) is a research-based school movement promoting increased recess and character education. Successful Healthy Children can facilitate the LiiNK Project for schools that join the movement to become a LiiNK School.

Question 7

What is Mindful Monitoring at Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

Mindful Monitoring© is a proprietary program that trains recess monitors to supervise play spaces in a way that keeps students safe physically and socially, allows students to choose their activity, and even supports rough-and-tumble play. It uses evidence-based strategies to help monitors know their students, differentiate roughhousing from aggression, and nurture the development of the whole child.

Question 8

Does Mindful Monitoring support rough-and-tumble play?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Mindful Monitoring© trains recess monitors to differentiate between roughhousing and aggressive behavior, allowing students to engage in safe rough-and-tumble play — a recognized component of healthy childhood development.

Question 9

What does Successful Healthy Children's Special Education Coaching service include?

Accepted Answer

IEP Coach Jessica Monteverde, MEd, supports parents in becoming the greatest advocate for their child through building collaborative relationships, providing education on strategies for school and home success, reviewing current IEPs or evaluating for initial IEPs, supporting military families during Permanent Change of Station (PCS) transitions, and providing ongoing coaching for children and parents.

Question 10

Does Successful Healthy Children offer IEP support for military families?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Jessica Monteverde specifically offers support for military families during Permanent Change of Station (PCS) transitions, helping families navigate IEP continuity and ensure their child's educational needs are met when moving to a new school.

Question 11

Does Successful Healthy Children help parents review existing IEPs?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Jessica Monteverde offers a review of a child's current IEP as well as evaluation support for initial IEPs, helping parents understand the documents and advocate effectively for their child's educational needs.

Question 12

What is the School Health and Wellness service at Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Cathy Ramstetter works with a school's existing wellness team or helps schools form one. She facilitates the work of wellness and health councils, provides training for staff and students, and creates action plans for family engagement — supporting academic growth by fostering life skills and social-emotional wellbeing for students, staff, and faculty.

Question 13

Why are school wellness councils important according to Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

Successful Healthy Children believes wellness and health councils are important assets for schools, especially in the post-COVID era. They help schools define ways to support academic growth by fostering life skills and social-emotional wellbeing for students, staff, and faculty.

Question 14

What is RTI Consulting at Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

RTI (Response to Intervention) Consulting is offered by Dr. Charlene Woodham Brickman. She helps schools with benchmark resources, scheduling, choosing free or inexpensive interventions, finding personnel to deliver interventions, creating easy-to-manage documentation, building team buy-in, and making decisions about moving students up or down tiers.

Question 15

Who provides RTI consulting at Successful Healthy Children?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Charlene Woodham Brickman provides RTI consulting through Successful Healthy Children, drawing on her expertise in recess, play education, and educational intervention strategies to support schools at any stage of their RTI implementation.

Question 16

Does Successful Healthy Children provide professional development for educators?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Successful Healthy Children provides professional development for educational professionals through their recess consulting, Mindful Monitoring training, school health and wellness facilitation, and RTI consulting services — all designed to build educator capacity for supporting the whole child.

Question 17

Does Successful Healthy Children offer parent workshops?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Successful Healthy Children offers community and parent workshops as part of their services, empowering families with knowledge and strategies to support their children's healthy development at home and at school.

Question 18

Does Successful Healthy Children work with individual students?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Successful Healthy Children works directly with individual students through recess mentoring, IEP coaching and advocacy, and school health and wellness initiatives — ensuring every child gets the personalized support they need to thrive.

Question 19

Does Successful Healthy Children work with entire school districts?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Successful Healthy Children works with individual schools and entire districts, offering policy advocacy, professional development, training, and systems-level consulting to help districts build sustainable, healthy learning environments for all students.

Question 20

How do I get started with Successful Healthy Children's services?

Accepted Answer

You can get started with Successful Healthy Children by visiting successfulhealthychildren.org/contact-3584 to reach the right consultant for your needs — Dr. Cathy Ramstetter for recess and school health, Dr. Charlene Woodham Brickman for recess, play, and RTI, or Jessica Monteverde for Special Education and IEP coaching.

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