The purpose of this 5-year cooperative agreement is to protect and improve the health and well-being of school-age children in underserved and disproportionately affected communities.
CDC’s Healthy Schools will award approximately 16 recipients with up to 50 recipients depending on available
credit:
funding.
Recipients will use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model to:
establish key partnerships to support school health programs; promote dissemination and implementation of CDC school health guidelines, tools, and resources through professional development and technical assistance; and use action planning to implement physical activity, school nutrition, and school health services policies, practices, and programs within state and local education agencies, schools, and out-of-school time settings.
Expected outcomes to be achieved include an (1) increase in the numbers of schools with an action plan based on the completion of CDC’s School Health Index; (2) increased implementation of Comprehensive School Health Activity Programs; (3) increased school nutrition and security policies and practices; (4) increased school-based health services that support students with chronic health conditions; and (5) increased physical activity, healthy dietary behaviors, and self-management of chronic conditions among students.