Culture of Health

Poverty, family circumstances, limited access to health care and other social supports have a substantial impact on a student’s ability to successfully learn and develop. These facts are not "excuses," they are realities that students, families, teachers and principals address daily. Community schools are making connections to important health and social supports by bringing community health agencies, dentists, and mental health practitioners enable young people to develop the competencies needed to lead healthy lives. They offer families support on a consistent basis. All of these services for students, their families, and even the entire community help create the kind of supportive environment that keeps students healthy and safe and living in stable families.  

Resources:

• Bridging the Gap- A Health Care Primer for Educational and Health Professionals 
• Alliance for Healthier Generation: Healthy Schools Program
  
• Research Brief: Addressing Trauma in our Schools
  
• Research Brief: Fostering Mental Health through ISS
  
• Research Brief: Working with Unaccompanied Minors
  
• Research Brief: Serving Special Populations: Insights on Working with Unaccompanied Minors and Undocumented Students
  
• Healthier Students are Better Learners by Charles Basch
  
• School Success: What's Health Got To Do With It?
  
• Healthier Students Are Better Learners (Campaign for Educational Equity)
  
• Coordinated School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• Health is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs
  
• School-Based Health Centers: Memorandum of Understanding
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Culture of Health |resources| and | blog|
  
• The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Action Guide
  
  

Webinars:

• Addressing Trauma in Community Schools /PPT Slides from webinar  (Coalition for Community Schools)
• Healthy and Ready to Learn: State ESSA Plans to Support Student Health and Wellness (Healthy Schools Campaign)
• National League of Cities Culture of Health Web Series

• Building Sustainable Health and Education Partnerships: Stories From Local Communities
• A Community Success Story: Combining Public and Private Sector for Health Care and Education (The Atlantic)
  
• New Breed of Community Partnerships Aiding Schools (Education Week)
  
• Ten New Health Centers to Open in Cincinnati Schools
  
• Building Community Schools in Upstate New York: A Connecting with the Policy Environment Success Story  (The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools)
• New Book Examines the Impact of School-Based Health Care
• Cincinnati Community School Opens Cutting-Edge Vision Center in Building

Relevant Coalition Partners:

• American Public Health Association
• Collaborative of Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• Health Schools Campaign
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National League of Cities
• PolicyLink (health equity)
• School-Based Health Alliance
• The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools at The George Washington University
• Trust for America’s Health
• ASCD Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework