New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 6 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Chapter 12 - PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION - HEALTH AND SAFETY › Part 6 - SCHOOL DISTRICT WELLNESS POLICY › Section 6.12.6.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Coordinated
				school health approach" means the framework for linking health and education.
				The focus is healthy and successful students. There are eight interactive
				components of coordinated school health: health education; physical education
				and activity; nutrition; social and emotional well-being; healthy and safe
				environment; health services; staff wellness; and family, school and community
				involvement.
B. "Family, school and
				community involvement" means an integrated family, school and community
				approach for enhancing the health and well-being of students by establishing a
				district school health advisory council that has the responsibility to make
				recommendations to the local school board in the development or revision,
				implementation, and evaluation of the wellness policy.
C. "Fund raiser" means a sale on a school
				campus to benefit a school or school organization of beverage or food products
				limited by a United States department of agriculture school meal program for
				use, consumption or sale during the school day in competition with school
				meals. A fundraiser may be conducted only for up to one school day on two
				occasions per semester or trimester term in a school that participates in
				United States department of agriculture school meal programs. The wellness
				policy implemented through 6.12.6 NMAC shall include annual assurances to the
				New Mexico public education department of compliance with limitations on "fund
				raisers" pursuant to this subsection and subject to review as part of the
				administrative review of a school food authority.
D. "Health education" means the instructional
				program that provides the opportunity to motivate and assist all 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. It
				meets the content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set
				forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC.
E. "Health
				services" means services provided for students to appraise, protect, and
				promote health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to
				primary health care or behavioral health services or both, foster appropriate
				use of primary health care services, behavioral health services, prevent and
				control communicable diseases and other health problems, provide emergency care
				for illness or injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a
				safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and
				counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and
				community health.
F. "Healthy and
				safe environment" means the physical and aesthetic surroundings and the
				psychosocial climate and culture of the school. It supports a total learning
				experience that promotes personal growth, healthy interpersonal relationships,
				wellness, and freedom from discrimination and abuse.
G. "Nutrition" means programs that provide
				access to a variety of nutritious and appealing meals and snacks that
				accommodate the health and nutrition needs of all students.
H. "Physical activity" means body movement of
				any type which include recreational, fitness, and sport activities.
I. "Physical education" means the
				instructional program that provides cognitive content and learning experiences
				in a variety of activity areas. It provides the opportunity for all students to
				learn and develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary to personally
				decide to participate in a lifetime of healthful physical activity. It meets
				the content standards with benchmarks and performance standards as set forth in
				Section 6.30.2.20 NMAC.
J. "Social
				and emotional wellbeing" means services provided to maintain or improve
				students' mental, emotional, behavioral, and social health.
K. "Staff wellness" means opportunities for
				school staff to improve their health status through activities such as health
				assessments, health education and health-related fitness activities. These
				opportunities encourage school staff to pursue a healthy lifestyle that
				contributes to their improved health status, improved morale, and a greater
				personal commitment to the school's overall coordinated school health
				approach.
L. "Emergency Operation
				Plan (EOP)" means the document which outlines and explains functions, resources
				and coordination procedures for responding to and supporting crisis, emergency,
				terrorist-response, and disaster operations, and is that portion of a safe
				school plan that details risk assessments and establishes the plans or
				procedures to manage a crisis, emergency, terrorist or disaster event before,
				during and after it has occurred and includes, but is not limited to, emergency
				routes and staff assignments as they relate to immediate actions, delayed
				actions, mitigation actions, facility evacuations and facility
				reentry.