The Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) includes policies and goals set by local school boards in partnership with parents, students, educators, health care providers, and other community members to help instill lifelong healthful habits in school aged children to improve academic success. The Nevada Department of Education supports national initiatives that advocate for safe and drug-free schools, preventive health care, health education, and healthy lifestyles for children and youth, and that promote partnerships between school, community, and family in serving the needs of the whole child. Children and youth today live in a complex and changing world that often exposes them to significant health risks. Violence and crime, substance abuse, environmental hazards, high-risk behavior, and inadequate health are services, as well as illness, injury, and disability, all have a direct impact on schools and on children's ability to learn. CSHP can help student respond to these hazards by increasing their knowledge about health; promoting healthy lifestyles and decision making skills.
Components include:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services are programs that provide help to students, families, and staff in collaboration with professional in the community.
Family/Community Involvement are partnerships that promote shared responsibility for student health.
Healthy School Environments that are clean, well kept, nurturing, and safe, and provide students and staff with a secure and positive atmosphere.
Health Education that addresses health curricula content taught by qualified educators for students in preschool though 12th grade that include the following:
- accident prevention and safety
- community health
- consumer health
- disease control and prevention
- environmental health
- family life education
- personal health
- nutrition education
- self-esteem building
- substance abuse prevention
- violence prevention
Health Promotion for Staff are programs for faculty and staff that enhance wellness, morale, and job satisfaction.
Health Services that address any health needs which affect students' ability to learn.
Health Standards Health Standards documents
Nutrition Services are feeding programs that promote the wellbeing of students by serving good, nutritious meals; contribute to nutrition education; and reflect the diet diversity of students and staff.
Physical Education Standards Physical Education Standards
Authority: NRS 389.065 and a Cooperative Agreement with Centers for Disease Control (CDC), CFDA #93.938.The Coordinated School Health Program to Prevent the Spread of HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) is a federally funded program designed to assist school districts to establish, strengthen, or expand HIV/AIDS and STD prevention education. The program is used to integrate HIV/AIDS prevention education into a coordinated school health education framework for Nevada's middle school and high school students. Funds are used to provide K-12 teacher training, curriculum materials, curriculum development and revisions to include up-to-date information to school districts on the status of the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STDs. It also includes the collection of information on the status of HIV/AIDS education in school districts and monitoring health risk behaviors of adolescent youth in grades 9-12 through survey administration of the Centers for Disease Control's national Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
2009-2010 Human Sexuality and Health Standards Instruction
2009-2010 Supervisor Personnel for District School Nurses
