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Coordinated School Health: Enhancing Wellness Through Collaboration

Learn about the coordinated school health framework focusing on components like health education, physical education, mental health, and nutrition to improve student health and well-being. Explore how these elements work together for better outcomes.

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Coordinated School Health: Enhancing Wellness Through Collaboration

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  1. Coordinated School Health Indian Health Service Health Education Program

  2. What is Coordinated School Health? Framework for Coordinating School Health • This coordinated school health framework centers around eight critical, interrelated components: • Health education • Physical education • Health services • Mental health and social services • Nutrition services • Healthy and safe environment • Family and community involvement • Staff wellness Individually, each of these components can contribute to students’ health and well-being. However, when all of the individual components work together to support the adoption of health-enhancing behaviors, students’ health and learning are improved.

  3. Student Health: medications, Immunizations, sick, hearing, Eye screening Health Education – Is it is just for rainy days? Got a Health Book? Staff HPDP Current School Health: DISJOINTED? UNFOCUSED? School Environment: noise pollution, trash removal, playground safety Nutrition: cafeteria menu/food, portion control, education, choices Student Counseling A/SA, behavior problems, PE Teacher: Fun, through fitness, problem student, weight control Community Parents HPDP

  4. CSH= A Healthy Student Health Education Student Counseling Staff HPDP Physical Education School Environment Parent, Community HPDP Student Health Nutrition

  5. Resources • More school health resources are available at the Health Education website at www.ihs.gov. • And at: http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/CSHP/

  6. Contact: Mary.Wachacha@ihs.gov

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