Coordinated School Health: 2022-23 Annual Report

Coordinated School Health (CSH) is a framework for addressing health in schools, connects health with learning, and improves students' health and capacity to learn through the support of schools, families, and communities working together. This model encourages healthy lifestyles, provides needed support to students, and helps to reduce the prevalence of health problems that impair academic achievement. The involvement of parents, families, and the community is the glue that binds CSH. Full involvement of these entities as partners in the educational process provides valuable input, increases the commitment of all partners, and ensures positive educational and health outcomes. CSH is not a program but a systematic approach to promoting health that emphasizes needs assessment, planning based on data, and analysis of gaps and redundancies in school health programming. CSH consists of eight components that work together to improve the lives of students and their families. Although these components are listed separately, their composite allows CSH to have a significant impact. The eight components are health education, health services, counseling, psychological, and social services, nutrition, physical education and physical activity, school staff wellness, healthy school environment, and student, community, and family involvement. This report provides information on CSH programmatic outcomes and selected student health indicators data in Tennessee for the 2022-23 school year.