FUHSD WELLNESS COUNCIL FUHSD WELLNESS COUNCIL

Exploring the district’s new and continuing

ELIANA ASCHHEIM writer

Fremont Union High School District’s Wellness Council will return to session with renewed vigor with improved plans for social and emotional wellbeing.

The council had disbanded during the pandemic as the district focused on supporting students and teachers through the crisis.

Associate Superintendent, Dr. Trudy Gross, is working with district faculty to implement the council. The district closed applications for the council recently, and meetings will resume this semester. More than eighty people applied to be members.

The council believes in integrating schools, families, and communities to effectively address students’ wellness, which in turn aids academic success.

Members discuss issues pertaining to student wellness in groups and brainstorm solutions before engaging in discussion with the rest of the council.

In a zoom interview, said Gross, “Because we’re starting [in] second semester, we will only meet twice [during the remaining school year], but the plan would be to meet four times next year.”

The council seeks a variety of perspectives by encouraging input, according to the Wellness Council page on the FUHSD website. Representatives from the City of Cupertino and El Camino Hospital provide information to other members through presentations and participate as members. Other members include parents, students and FUHSD school-based therapists.

Gross said the council was formed in 2007 to update the food in the cafeteria and vending machine to be more nutritious.