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Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child

Every child in every school deserves to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.  That is the focus of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.  The WSCC model strengthens a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.  The five youth tenets (healthy, safe, engaged, supported, challenged) surround the child at the center.  The tenets surrounding the child are then surrounded by a ring emphasizing the coordination of school policy, processes, and practices.  The third outer ring contains the critical school components contributing, coordinating, and supporting the health of the child at the center (health education, physical education/activity, nutrition environment services, health services, counseling/psychological & social services, social & emotional climate, physical environment, employee wellness, family engagement, and community involvement).  The school remains a reflection of its community and requires community input, resources, and collaboration to support students; therefore, the most outer ring emphasizes the need for partnerships and collaboration with community agencies to help schools secure the resources and support necessary to implement the WSCC model.
CDC WSCC Model
 

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Coordinated School Health becomes Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child

The ASCD and the CDC developed this model that incorporates the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education and provides a framework to address the symbiotic relationship between learning and health.

Whereas the traditional CSH approach contained eight components, this model contains 10, expanding the original components of Healthy and Safe School Environment and Family and Community Involvement into four distinct components.

With grant funds from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, the district initiated wellness teams on each of its campuses. These teams are headed up by Local Wellness Coordinators who monitor the implementation of health and physical education instruction on the campus, as well as create and facilitate at least one wellness activity or program per year that involves students, parents, school staff and community members.