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NESA's 2013 Winter Training Institute
Susan Goekler, MCHES
Aims of the Healthy Schools Initiative
(of the WHO’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean)
Improve, if needed, school facilities and
environmental services.
Educate children on health, environment and quality
of life through learning and practical activities.
Make schools a forum for health, environment and
quality of life.
Objectives of Healthy Schools Initiative
Strengthen/establish a systematic school health
programme in each school.
2. Improve school facilities and environmental services, if
needed.
3. Educate students on health and the environment.
4. Involve the parents and community members in
schools.
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What is a Health Promoting School?
“One that constantly strengthens its
capacity as a healthy setting for
living, learning, and working.”
(World Health Organization)
A health promoting school:
Fosters health and learning
Encourages members of the school community in
efforts to make the school a healthy place
Strives to provide a healthy environment, health
education, and health services; projects and outreach
in the community; staff wellness; nutrition and food
safety; physical activity opportunities; and mental and
social health supports
Implements supportive policies and practices
HP schools are part of communities
They strive to improve the health of school personnel,
families, and community members as well as pupils.
They work with community leaders to help them
understand how the community contributes to, or
undermines, health and education.
HP Schools focus on:
Caring for oneself and others
Making healthy decisions and taking control over life’s
circumstances
Creating conditions that are conducive to health
Building capacities for peace, shelter, education, food,
income, a stable ecosystem, equity, social justice,
sustainable development
Preventing leading causes of death, disease, and
disability
Influencing health-related behaviors
Implementing HP Schools (CDC)
Secure and maintain administrative support
Establish school teams and school/community advisory
council
Identify a coordinator
Develop a plan
Implement multiple strategies through multiple components
Focus on students
Address priority health-enhancing and health-risk behaviors
Provide professional development for staff
Aligning Health & Education (ASCD)
The principal as leader
Active and engaged leadership
Distributive leadership
Integration with the school improvement plan
Effective use of data for continuous school improvement
Ongoing and embedded professional development
Authentic & mutually beneficial community
collaborations
Stakeholder support of local efforts
Creation or modification of school policy