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Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 258
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Using State Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Coverage of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Framework in State Statutes and Regulations, School Year 2017-2018. Publication # 2019-09
Chriqui, Jamie; Stuart-Cassel, Victoria; Piekarz-Porter, Elizabeth; Temkin, Deborah; Lao, Kristy; Steed, Heather; Harper, Kristen; Leider, Julien; Gabriel, Alexander
Child Trends
A healthy school is one that fully supports a student's academic, physical, emotional, and social well-being. Increasingly, state education policies are moving beyond a focus on academic mastery to include aspects of healthy schools. Despite a growing knowledge base that stresses important linkages among aspects of well-being, policies tend to address students' physical health separately from their mental and emotional health, which are, in turn, both addressed separately from a school's social and emotional climate. To date, reflecting the siloed nature of policies, no comprehensive analysis of state policies has covered all domains of healthy schools. As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Together for Healthy and Successful Schools Initiative, Child Trends partnered with the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and EMT Associates, Inc. to review relevant state statutes and regulations enacted as of September 2017 and analyze their alignment with the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model of healthy schools. The WSCC covers 10 domains: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition environment and services; health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; social and emotional climate; physical environment; employee wellness; family engagement; and community involvement. Findings from this work have been compiled to help policymakers and advocates better understand the current landscape and consider the creation of policies that promote healthy schools. [This publications was jointly produced with the Institute of Health Research and Policy, the University of Illinois at Chicago and EMT Associates.]
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Well Being, Mental Health, Physical Health, Social Emotional Learning, State Regulation, Alignment (Education), Health Education, Physical Education, School Health Services, Counseling Services, Psychological Services, Social Services, Social Environment, Physical Environment, Wellness, Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Stakeholders, Faculty Development
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reference Materials - General
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Authoring Institution: Child Trends
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