Franklin County Schools
Coordinated School Health Program
Funding and
support provided by the
Coordinated School Health Improvement Act TCA 49-1-1002
Bonita Nolan,
CSHP Coordinator
nolanb@k12tn.net
931-967-7825
ext. 109
Fax 931-962-3067
Coordinated
school health works to improve children's lives by:
·
Teaching children how to live
healthy lives
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Providing health services to
children
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Expanding teacher training
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Keeping schools free of
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
·
Making schools free from
violence and gang activity
The goal of the coordinated school health program is to eliminate
health-related barriers to learning so that teachers can teach and students can
learn.
Health Education: A
planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical, mental,
emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to
motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent
disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to
develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge,
attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive health education curriculum
includes a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community
health, consumer health, environmental health, sexuality education, mental and
emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and
control of disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers
provide health education.
Physical
Education: A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that provides cognitive
content and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic
movement skills; physical fitness; rhythms and dance; games; team, dual, and
individual sports; tumbling and gymnastics; and aquatics. Quality physical
education should promote, through a variety of planned physical activities,
each student's optimum physical, mental, emotional, and social development, and
should promote activities and sports that all students enjoy and can pursue
throughout their lives. Qualified, trained teachers teach physical activity.
Health Services: Services
provided for students to appraise, protect, and promote health. These services
are designed to ensure access or referral to primary health care services or
both, foster appropriate use of primary health care services, prevent and
control communicable disease and other health problems, provide emergency care
for illness or injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a
safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and
counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and
community health. Qualified professionals such as physicians, nurses, dentists,
health educators, and other allied health personnel provide these services.
Nutrition
Services: Access to a variety of nutritious and appealing meals that
accommodate the health and nutrition needs of all students. School nutrition
programs reflect the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other criteria
to achieve nutrition integrity. The school nutrition services offer students a
learning laboratory for classroom nutrition and health education, and serve as
a resource for linkages with nutrition-related community services. Qualified
child nutrition professionals provide these services.
Counseling and Psychological Services:
Services provided to improve students' mental, emotional, and social health.
These services include individual and group assessments, interventions, and
referrals. Organizational assessment and consultation skills of counselors and
psychologists contribute not only to the health of students but also to the
health of the school environment. Professionals such as certified school
counselors, psychologists, and social workers provide these services.
Health Promotion for Staff:
Opportunities for school staff to improve their health status through
activities such as health assessments, health education and health-related
fitness activities. These opportunities encourage school staff to pursue a
healthy lifestyle that contributes to their improved health status, improved
morale, and a greater personal commitment to the school's overall coordinated
health program. This personal commitment often transfers into greater
commitment to the health of students and creates positive role modeling. Health
promotion activities have improved productivity, decreased absenteeism, and
reduced health insurance costs.
Family/Community Involvement: An
integrated school, parent, and community approach for enhancing the health and
well-being of students. School health advisory councils, coalitions, and
broadly based constituencies for school health can build support for school
health program efforts. Schools actively solicit parent involvement and engage
community resources and services to respond more effectively to the
health-related needs of students.
School Health Program Guidelines
(Courtesy of
Office of
School Health Programs
Other Resources
(Click on the links for more information)
Health Insurance
Physical
Activity
Jump Rope for Heart
Nutrition Education
My Pyramid
Use the Nutrition Facts
Label
for Healthy Weight Management
Explore the
World of Nutrition with
Key Strategies
to Prevent Obesity
Character Education
Mental
Health
Drug and
Tobacco Use Prevention
Staph
Infection
Healthcare-Associated
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA)
General
Health
BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for
kids created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed for kids 9-13
years old, BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make
healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids told us are
important to them — such as stress and physical fitness — using kid-friendly
lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.
BAM! Body and Mind also serves as an aid to
teachers, providing them with interactive, educational, and fun activities that
are linked to the national education standards for science and health.
STD’s and
HIV/AIDS Prevention
HIV/AIDS
Information
Teen
Pregnancy Prevention
