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Kansas Coordinated School Health is here to help your school become a healthier school. Kansas Coordinated School Health provides health resources, technical assistance, trainings and funding to create healthy Kansas students, staff, schools, and communities.

Kansas Coordinated School Health received weighted data for the 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. To learn more and view the results, click here.

Coordinated School Health (CSH) is an eight-component approach to help youth establish healthful behaviors and attitudes. The process begins with a thorough assessment of health influences within a school/community. This assessment guides CSH leaders toward the greatest areas of student health needs. With clear goals in mind, leaders address relevant components to provide the knowledge and environment necessary for students to make healthful decisions. CSH is a powerful approach to recognizing and addressing the close relationship between health and learning. This approach is summarized by the following philosophy: “Healthy students make better learners and better learners make healthy communities.”

The Kansas Coordinated School Health (KCSH) Program is principally funded by the Centers for the Disease Control-Division of Adolescent and School Health (CDC-DASH). KCSH focuses on three areas: Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Tobacco Use Prevention. The KCSH program is a collaborative program between two state agencies: Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) and the Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE). The Project Director, Health Education Coordinator, and the HIV Consultant are all employed by KSDE, while the Program Manager and the KDHE Outreach Coordinators are employed by KDHE.

Why is Coordinated School Health Important?

Coordinated School Health is about:

Involving Parents
Keeping kids healthy over time
Supporting a student's capacity to learn
Imparting skills, knowledge, and judgement to help kids make smart choices for life
Reinforcing positive behaviors throughout the school day
Making it clear good health and learning go hand in hand
Helping young people grow into healthy, productive adults
Focusing on physical and emotional well-being fo kids K-12
Coordinating parents, schools, administators, and communities as key partners

To learn more why Coordinated School Health is important to your school, click here to view a powerpoint presentation by the Council of Chief State School Officers on why your school should support a Coordinated Approach to School Health.

Students from Buhler school district listen to a presentation on healthy beverages at their school health fair.