Listed below are a variety of resources to help better understand Coordinated School Health and our work regarding this initiative.

2019 Student Information Fliers about Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Simon's Heart is an organization dedicated to saving children's lives by raising awareness about conditions that lead to sudden cardiac arrest and death.  

The School Health Index (SHI): Self-Assessment & Planning Guide 2017

 The School Health Index (SHI): Self-Assessment & Planning Guide 2017 is an online self-assessment and planning tool (also available in a downloadable, printable version) that schools can use to improve their health and safety policies and programs. The SHI was developed by CDC in partnership with school administrators and staff, school health experts, parents, and national nongovernmental health and education agencies.

 Parent Heart Watch Back to School Flyers

The Parent Heart Watch (PHW) is a national advocacy organization focused on protecting youth from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). PHW is comprised of parents and other advocates who have been personally touched by sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) or sudden cardiac death (SCD) and who now put their time and effort into preventing SCA/SCD in the young throughout their community

 Websites

• The CDC's Healthy Schools Website provides information and tools for teachers, parents, and schools on topics including school nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, management of chronic diseases.
  • CDC expands on the Coordinated School Health Approach with Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child.
   
•  Learn about CDC's Division on Adolescent and School Health (DASH), which  promotes environments where teens can gain fundamental health knowledge and skills, establish lifetime healthy behaviors, connect to health services and avoid becoming pregnant or infected with HIV or STDs.
•  Read about ASCD's The Whole Child Approach which is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long term development and success of children.

Reports

•  The CDC's Health and Academic Achievement will help you make the case for CSH in your district with key research, messages, action steps, and resources about the link between health and academic achievement (May 2014).
•   What School Administrators Can Do to Enhance Student Learning by Supporting a Coordinated Approach to Health from the American School Health Association provides specific strategies for school administrators who have decided they want to support a coordinated approach to school health in their districts (October 2010).
•  The 2014 School Health Policies and Practices Study* (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and practices at the state, district, school, and classroom levels, http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/shpps/index.htm.
•  The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. For YRBS information/statistics (May 2015).
•  The School Health Profiles (Profiles) is a system of surveys assessing school health policies and practices in states, large urban school districts, territories, and tribal governments. Profiles surveys are conducted every 2 years by education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers.

 GENYOUth Briefs

•  GENYOUth InBrief Volume 2, March 2017 - FUELING GREATNESS AMONG HISPANIC YOUTH: Celebrating differences, addressing needs to help American students be as healthy and successful as possible. Latino youth represent the largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group in the nation -- a key population that Fuel Up to Play 60 en Español was created to serve. This Brief emerges from GENYOUth’s conviction that, in our diverse society, the benefits that come with improved nutrition and more opportunity for physical activity in the school environment must be available to all youth – regardless of language or cultural differences.
•  GENYOUth InBrief Volume 3, April 2017 - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Working Together for Change. For those who work in the area of school wellness, public health, nutrition, physical activity, on an allied field, this Brief’s insights make clear how real community engagement – of which GENYOUth’s Town Halls, produced with Dairy and NFL partners over the last several years, are an example -- can aid everything from uncovering collaboration opportunities and strengthening relationships to garnering commitments of support and underwriting for vital initiatives.

Updated October  2017

 Staff Contact

 Kayla Jackson, Project Director,Coordinated School Health
703-875-0725
kjackson@aasa.org