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Healthy Schools
Coordinated School Health
 
"A child must be healthy to learn...and must learn to be healthy."  The gold standard for accomplishing this task is the Coordinated School Health Program Model.  A school utilizing this model will incorporate eight interactive components into the problem solving and decision making processes involved in developing a healthful learning environment.  The model's eight interactive components include:  Health Education, Physical Education, Health Services, Nutrition Services, Counseling and Psychological Services, Healthy School Environment, Health Promotion for Staff, and Family and Community Involvement.  Schools should assemble Coordinated School Health Teams with members representing each of the eight components.
 
School Health Index
 
Once a team is assembled, schools should assess their healthy learning environments by utilizing the School Health Index.  The SHI is a self-assessment and planning tool that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs.
 
School Wellness Policies
 
The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 mandates that all local schools receiving federal funding must establish local school wellness policies that include guidelines for all foods available on school campuses during the school day and goals for nutrition education, physical activity, and other school-based activities that are designed to promote student wellness. The wellness policies must also establish a plan for measuring implementation of the policy. 
 
Buckeye Best School Awards
 
Healthy students make better learners!  The Buckeye Best Healthy School Awards recognize schools that demonstrate a commitment to the health and wellness of their students and staff through the establishment of programs that policies that foster such goals. 
 
Due to programmatic changes, the Buckeye Best Healthy Schools Award Program was suspended for the 2010/2011 school year as the program undergoes modifications.  Look for the new application in the 2011/2012 school year!
  
Action For Healthy Kids
 
Action For Healthy Kids is a nationwide initiative dedicatedti improving the health and education of children through better nutrition and physical activity in schools.  This effort represents a response to our nation's epidemic of overweight, sedentary and malnourished children and adolescents.  Healthy schools produce healthy students -- and healthy students are better able to learn and achieve their true potential. Many valubale resources can be found on the Action For Healthy Kids website.
 
Ohio Action For Healthy Kids (OAFHK) works to bring these resources to the schools and children of our state.  Ohio Action For Healthy Kids is divided into Zones, with Zone 5 representing southeast Ohio.  The OAFHK Team has:
  • sponsored more than two dozen school food service and physical education workshops in the region
  • funded $16,000 in mini grants to more than two dozen southeast Ohio schools
  • assisted local schools in garnering more than $500,000 in school health funding

Does Your School Need Assitance?

Contact Court Witschey at 740-374-2782 or cvh@washco-ohhealth.org if your school could use assistance or resources in implementing the coordinated school health model or its wellness policies. The Coalition may be able to help.