The WSCC model combines and builds on elements of the traditional
coordinated school health approach and the whole child framework to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach to learning and health.
In doing so, the model continues the focus of the traditional
coordinated school health approach but aligns it with the structure, framework, and objectives of education.
Healthy Schools BC, a key initiative of the Healthy Families BC (HFBC) strategy, builds the capacity of the health and education sectors to effectively implement healthy schools initiatives using a
Comprehensive School Health approach.
Healthy Schools BC brings together healthy schools information, products, programs and resources from across BC into one convenient and easy to use website, and demonstrates how these programs can work together in a planned, coordinated way under the Comprehensive
School Health approach.
A comprehensive
school health approach (often called a whole school approach) to food literacy is about ensuring students have many opportunities — in the classroom, and in every aspect of their school experience — to develop food literacy.
Many schools achieve this by adopting a Comprehensive
School Health approach.
Nutrition education should also be part of a comprehensive school health education curriculum, and nutrition staff should be part of every school, district and state coordinated
school health approach.
Developed by ASCD and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with key leaders from education, public health, and school health fields, the new model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated
school health approach and the whole child framework to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach to learning and health.
This new model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated
school health approach and the whole child framework.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model expands on the 8 components of the CDC's coordinated
school health approach to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in schools.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated
school health approach and the whole child framework by