Rather, the program provides leadership and coordination related to comprehensive school health while working to impact school health systems. A CSHE curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices. A CSHP infrastructure consists of four key supports. Examples include laws, statutes, regulations, and policies.
Communication is within agencies, between agencies, and between agencies and communities.
Examples include people, technology, data and data systems, in service supports and external supports. The decision to incorporate comprehensive school health into programs and curriculum is a local determination. To find out if your school district is incorporating the comprehensive school health approach, contact your local County Office of Education . Partnerships A successful Comprehensive School Health Program is based on fostering public and private partnerships. Schools alone cannot be the sole promoters of optimal physical, emotional, social and educational development of children and youth.