McDowell Health-e-Schools recently presented McDowell County School Superintendent Mark Garrett with the Superintendent of the Year award from Healthy Schools sponsored by North Carolina Healthy Schools.
This award is given to a superintendent or former superintendent who has shown extraordinary support to the school-based/linked health centers in the district and who works tirelessly to support the center.
The recipient has demonstrated, over a period of time, his or her support of the goals of the North Carolina School-Based Health Alliance.
Those awarded understand the connection between health and education and believe that school-based/linked health centers keep students healthy and in school and make them more successful learners who are more likely to graduate.
Garrett was presented this honor on May 5 at a luncheon in Winston-Salem at the NC School-Based Health Alliance state conference.
Originally posted on the McDowell News
