Related resources: Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool, 2nd Edition and BCSC's sessions
on Coordinating School Health Program: A Sustained Approach and Team Batesville: A Community Engagement Activity from last year's virtual conference
The CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health selected Gibson County Special School District in western Tennessee as one of six districts across the United States that has an
outstanding coordinated school health program.
He also serves as a consultant for the
Michiana Coordinated School Health Program Leadership Institute, which is sponsored by the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Cancer Society, the Indiana State Department of Health, and the Michigan Department of Education.
The School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) is a group of individuals, representing segments of the community and school district, which provides advice to the district
on coordinated school health programming and its impact on student health and learning.
Recess Before Lunch: The Guidelines
for Coordinating School Health Programs / Nutrition and Food Services Guidelines (2002) recommend schools to consider recess before lunch to improve student behavior and increase nutrition intake.
In 2003, the State Board of Education adopted the nonbinding Policy on
Coordinated School Health Programs to Support Academic Achievement and Healthy Schools that recommends each school building and district to designate a School Health Program Coordinator to plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate the Coordinate School Health Program components.
So, here's what anyone at a * Texas * school that participates in the lunch program with a wellness policy, and has
a coordinated school health program needs to do: 1) ask the principal to support not rewarding children with unhealthy food * politely, or not..
In most schools, the school nurse is the only licensed health care provider in the school, and in most school districts, a school nurse manages all school health services and
coordinates all school health programs.
In order to meet New Legacy Charter School's mission of empowering teen parents with the skills needed to raise healthy children and graduate prepared for success in college and careers, developing
a Coordinated School Health Program is a necessity.
Thrive is Rhode Island's
coordinated school health program.
They also support
the Coordinated School Health program and changes to the BEP that would provide funding for additional nurses.
He is currently
the Coordinated School Health Program manager at the Washington State Department of Health;
[email protected].
Additionally, he coauthored Comprehensive School Health Education in the book Health is Academic: A Guide to
Coordinated School Health Programs, published by Teachers College Press (1998).
His article «A Complementary Ecological Model of
the Coordinated School Health Program,» initially published in Public Health Reports (2010) and subsequently in the Journal of School Health (2010), provided the first reconceptualization of this approach in more than 20 years.
Evidence shows that schools benefit greatly from the school - family - community partnership that is promoted through
the Coordinated School Health Program model.
Incorporating the components of
a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education.
Related resources: Creating a Healthy School Using the Healthy School Report Card: An ASCD Action Tool, 2nd Edition and BCSC's sessions on
Coordinating School Health Program: A Sustained Approach and Team Batesville: A Community Engagement Activity from last year's virtual conference