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Joint Consortium for School Health
(JCSH)
• JCSH establishment is endorsed by the FPT
Deputy Ministers of Health and the PT
Deputy Ministers and Ministers of
Education.
Purpose:
To provide leadership and facilitate a
comprehensive and coordinated approach to
school health by building the capacity of the
school and health systems to work together.
An effective, comprehensive approach
• integrates various aspects of health
within a holistic view of the child, school
and community
• coordinates multiple interventions
delivered by many professionals,
agencies and systems as well as by
youth, parents and communities.
Sustainability
To be sustainable, we need to constantly build
organizational capacities of systems:
- coordinated policy development/leadership,
- dedicated staffing infrastructure,
- formal and informal mechanisms for cooperation,
- knowledge exchange and transfer,
- pre-service and inservice work force development,
- system to anticipate emerging issues
- regular, reliable data on the health of students and
- periodic surveys of local programs and policies.
JCSH Mandate
• Build capacity of health, education and other
systems to work together
• A catalyst in strengthening cooperation and
capacities among ministries, departments, agencies
and others
• To provide leadership and facilitate a
comprehensive and coordinated approach to
school health
JCSH to develop tools to assist members
and others in the development of
programs, policies and practices that
improve the overall health of young
people and address specific issues and
risk factors.
Knowledge Summaries:
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summarize the available evidence about
various issues in school health promotion to
inform governments, local agencies and others
as well as encourage further inquiry and
research
Based on this knowledge, provinces/territories,
local agencies and professions can develop
guidelines or recommendations for their
respective constituencies
Environmental scan on school nutrition
policies to provide initial guidance to
policy-makers and program developers
responsible for school health.
JCSH Working Groups:
Various work groups focused on
generating suggestions for practical
activities that can be taken up by a
variety of organizations at the PanCanadian level.
Working Groups:
Nutrition in Schools; Physical Activity;
Social Behaviours of Youth; Aboriginal
students; Immunization, Emergency
Response & Public Health Role in schools;
Injury Prevention; Sexual Health
Structure:
• Board of Directors – comprised of Deputy
Ministers in Education and/or Health from
each participating P/T and PHAC
• Management committee comprised of
ADMs or designates from several member
jurisdiction
• P/T/PHAC School Health Coordinators
• Secretariat Office
Nutrition and Schools:
The Pan-Canadian Level
Vision:
School-based and school-linked policies, programs,
services, practices and activities to promote healthy
eating and address/prevent issues such as
obesity/overweight, eating disorders, food
security/poverty, food allergies, food safety, food
production and food/nutrition careers.
No one strategy, such as nutrition
policies or child nutrition programs
will be sufficient.
Nutrition WG combined with the
corresponding F/P/T WG have
identified many ongoing and/or
required activities that are required to
further all of our respective efforts.
Glance at a CSH approach to Nutrition
and Schools & some Pan-Canadian
Realities and Possibilities
Healthy Students, Healthy Schools
Newfoundland and Labrador
• Healthy Students, Healthy Schools
Newfoundland and Labrador
A Plan For the Future
• Department of Education and Department
of Health and Community Services
• Regional Health Authority – School District
• Public Health Nursing Office – School
• School Health Resources
• Priority Area for Provincial Wellness
Advisory Council
• Currently 8 recommendations for action
around Healthy Eating and Physical
Activity
• Develop and implement provincial guidelines for
food served in schools
• Enhance and expand healthy eating opportunities
& ensure funding for school food programs
• Provide training on healthy eating & the
preparation of nutritious foods for school
caterers.
• Enhance opportunities for children and youth to
participate in healthy living activities in both the
school and community setting
• Engage and support youth to take action on
healthy living issues
• Develop, revise and implement curricula that
support and enhance healthy living in K to Level
III
• NEXT STEPS
– Healthy Students, Healthy Schools Committee ☺
– Healthy Student Summit ☺
– K-6 Living Healthy Day!
– School Food Guidelines ☺
– School Health Promotion Liaison consultant ☺
– Regional School Health Coordinator
– Physical Activity & Schools Guidelines ☺
– Healthy Students, Healthy Schools Strategy Paper ☺