What is Coordinated School Health?
Coordinated school health is a way of improving children’s health and removing barriers to learning. Coordinated school health concentrates on the well-being of K-12 students. It is about teaching children how to make healthy choices and helping students become healthy adults by coordinating parents, schools, and communities to make schools healthy environments. The Need The primary role of schools is to educate our youth. However, students cannot learn at an optimal level if they come to school tired, hungry, sick, hungover from drugs, or fearful of violence.
