Defiance Catholic School has been awarded the 2007 Buckeye Best Silver Award
The Buckeye Best Healthy School Awards Program is designed to recognize those
schools whose policies and practices reflect a high priority on healthy outcomes for
children. The program is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Health in partnership
with the American Cancer Society - Ohio Division as part of the Ohio Department of
Health's Healthy Ohioans campaign. Each fall the Buckeye Best Healthy School
Awards Program will rank schools based upon their progressin the areas of tobacco, nutrition and physical activity.
An interdisciplinary team of school health professionals score each application
based on responses to the questions using the standard as defined in the Healthy
People 2010 Objectives.