| 1. Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle. |
Ensure public health involvement on district-level school health councils and public health support for school-level health teams. Ensure that all children who qualify for the State Children's Health Insurance Program are enrolled. Ensure all students and their families have a medical home with access to health services. Promote a quality school health program. Provide visits by nurse to teen mothers to establish healthy starts for vulnerable children. Encourage schools to implement the CDC guidelines (eg, tobacco use prevention, physical activity and nutrition, safety and violence prevention, food safety). Promote the use of a sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum that meets the National Health Education Standards.
Promote the use of a sequential physical education curriculum that meets recommended standards: Moving into the Future: National Standards for Physical Education, 2nd edition. Promote the use of school health assessments (eg, CDC's School Health Index, ASCD's Healthy School Report Card) to initiate a program planning process for continuous improvement at each school. Participate on school improvement planning teams. Promote community surveillance to identify health-related absenteeism, health risk behaviors of students and adults, and health protective factors of students. Promote programs that aggressively reduce preventable absenteeism — kindergarten through high school.
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| 2. Each student learns in an intellectually challenging environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults. |
Assure safe, nonviolent schools by promoting the adoption of CDC's School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence. Promote establishment of the healthy physical environment by using EPA's Healthy SEAT assessment. Ensure that the curriculum has a scope and sequence in which all students learn personal and social skills. Promote engaging business, health care, community service, and faith-based sectors on district school health councils and local school health teams. Support creation and implementation of school and community youth development programs. Include schools in the community public health planning process. Promote worksite wellness initiatives for school staff. Encourage schools to open the worksite health promotion programs to students and families in the community.
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| 3. Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community. |
Encourage the agencies on the district school health council to provide learning opportunities for students in community agencies. Collaborate with out-of-school programs to ensure access to quality prevention programs and health services. Engage students as partners on public health planning teams and in designing public health interventions for students, their families and the community at large. Engage students and community in mentoring and life-enriching opportunities (eg, service learning, peer education, cross-age mentoring, youth development).
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| 4. Each student has access to personalized learning and to qualified and caring adults. |
Work with schools and communities to develop service learning and out-of-school learning opportunities. Advocate for the development of effective mentoring programs encouraging agencies on the school health council to provide mentors and tutors, matched to student vulnerabilities.
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| 5. Each graduate is prepared for success in college or further study and for employment in a global environment. |
Promote the use of the National Health Education Standards and the National Physical Education Standards for the development of school and out-of-school health and physical education programs. Provide information to schools on the role health literacy plays in preparation for success in life.
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