Supervisor: Jeannie Woolsey, RN, BSN

Address: George Clem Operations Building

312 Floral Street Greeneville, TN 37743

Phone: 423-823-2916-cell or 423-636-1696

Coordinated School Health

A coordinated school health program (CSHP) model consists of eight 
interactive components. Schools by themselves cannot—and should not be 
expected to—solve the nation’s most serious health and social problems. 
Families, health care workers, the media, religious organizations, community 
organizations that serve youth, and young people themselves also must be 
systematically involved. However, schools could provide a critical facility 
in which many agencies might work together to maintain the well-being of 
young people.

                 Eight Component Model (CDC Model)
The following are working descriptions of the eight components of a 
coordinated school health program.


I.  Health Edcation 
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.

  
II.  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.

  
III.  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.

  
IV.  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.

  
V.  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.

  
VI.  Healthy School Environment
The physical and aesthetic surroundings and the psychosocial climate and 
culture of the school. Factors that influence the physical environment 
include the school building and the area surrounding it, any biological or 
chemical agents that are detrimental to health, and physical conditions such 
as temperature, noise, and lighting. The psychological environment includes 
the physical, emotional, and social conditions that affect the well-being of 
students and staff.

 
VII.  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.

  
VIII.  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.