The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model: A New Approach for Improving Educational Attainment and Healthy Development for Students*

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• Alternative Title:
  J Sch Health
• Personal Author:
  Lewallen, Theresa C ; Hunt, Holly ; Potts-Datema, William ; Zaza, Stephanie ; Giles, Wayne
• Description:
  BACKGROUND
  
  The Whole Child approach and the coordinated school health (CSH) approach both address the physical and emotional needs of students. However, a unified approach acceptable to both the health and education communities is needed to assure that students are healthy and ready to learn.
  
  METHODS
  
  During spring 2013, the ASCD (formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened experts from the field of education and health to discuss lessons learned from implementation of the CSH and Whole Child approaches and to explore the development of a new model that would incorporate the knowledge gained through implementation to date.
  
  RESULTS
  
  As a result of multiple discussions and review, the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach was developed. The WSCC approach builds upon the traditional CSH model and ASCD's Whole Child approach to learning and promotes greater alignment between health and educational outcomes.
  
  CONCLUSION
  
  By focusing on children and youth as students, addressing critical education and health outcomes, organizing collaborative actions and initiatives that support students, and strongly engaging community resources, the WSCC approach offers important opportunities that will improve educational attainment and healthy development for students.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Health Child Child Health Community-Institutional Relations Counseling Health Education Health Promotion Humans Interprofessional Relations Models, Educational Motor Activity Occupational Health Residence Characteristics School Health Services Schools Social Support Societies, Scientific Students

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• Source:
  J Sch Health. 2015; 85(11):729-739.
• Pubmed ID:
  26440815
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4606766
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child.
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  85
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ca74cc0b5fe179f29eb3095f4a7faf757a1375758ec9daa85fb339b863c03f02
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/35116/cdc_35116_DS1.pdf
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