School Health Index

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School Health Index

• Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention
• School self-assessment and planning guide
• Nationally recognized assessment tool
• Based on Coordinated School Health model

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Coordinated School Health
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School Health Index will enable your school to..

• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Develop an action plan
• Involve school staff, parents, students, and the
  community in improving school policies, programs
  and services

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What SHI Is and What SHI Is NOT
Self-assessment and planning tool
Research or evaluation tool
Educational and community-organizing process
Tool to audit or punish school staff
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What SHI Is and What SHI Is NOT
Identifies low-cost or no-cost changes
Requires expensive changes
Focused, reasonable, and user-friendly experience
Long, bureaucratic, and painful process
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SHI Format

• Completed by school health teams
• Two separate versions
• Elementary School
• Middle School/High School
• Self-Assessment 8 modules corresponding to
  Coordinated School Health Program model
• Planning Planning for Improvement section

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Forming your Wellness Team

• Identify key players
• Representation from administration
• Representation from each of the eight component
  areas

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Modules CSHP Components

• School Health and Safety Policies and Environment
• Health Education
• Physical Education and Other Physical Activity
  Programs
• Nutrition Services
• School Health Services
• School Counseling, Psychological, and Social
  Services
• Health Promotion for Staff
• Family and Community Involvement

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Health Topics in the SHI

• Physical activity
• Nutrition
• Tobacco-use prevention
• Safety (unintentional injury and violence
  prevention)
• Asthma

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Question Coding

• CC cross-cutting
• PA physical activity
• N nutrition
• T tobacco-use prevention
• S safety (unintentional injury and violence
  prevention)
• A asthma

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Time Commitment

• The SHI can be completed in as little as 6
  hours
• Modules 1-4 1 hour each
• Modules 5-8 30 minutes each
• A small investment of time can pay big dividends
  in improving students well-being, readiness to
  learn, and prospects for a healthy life.

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Ultimate Outcome

• Sustainable School Wellness Team
• PANT
• ESP (Environmental, Systems and Policy Changes)
• Wellness action plan
• Healthier school communities

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• Do you have ESP?
• Environmental
• Systems
• Policy
• Changes

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ESP - Environmental Change

• Any physical sustainable change to the
• school environment to promote healthy
• behavior.
• developing a walking path, installing bike
  racks
• replacing soda with water and 100 juice
• in vending machines
• creating a school garden
• creating a staff fitness center, etc.

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Employee Fitness Center
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ESP Systems Change

• Any sustainable change in school operations to
  promote healthy behavior
• - offering healthier lunch options
• - incorporating physical activity with core
• subjects
• - offering organized physical activities to
• after school programs, etc.
• - increasing PE requirements

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ESP Policy change

• Any sustainable change in school policy to
  promote healthy behaviors.
• - healthy items for school fundraiser
• - healthy rewards for students
• - alternatives to suspension for students
• caught smoking
• - prohibit using physical activity as
• punishment

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Healthy Snacks for Principals Coffee Hour
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Making a Difference

• As a result of implementing the SHI, schools have
• Created a wellness team.
• Increased time for physical education.
• Started student and staff walking clubs.
• Offered access to the gym outside of school
  hours.
• Provided parent education through newsletters and
  healthy activity nights.
• Provided professional development training to
  staff.
• Offered health screenings for staff.

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Questions