Goals & Objectives

KCSH Goal: Kansas Coordinated School Health believes that "Healthy children make better students, and better students make healthy communities." KCSH's goal is to promote school health programs that improve health behaviors, and emphasize the connection between recommended health practices, academic achievement, and lifelong healthy behaviors.

KCSH Objectives:

1. Facilitate a shift in school culture that emphasizes physical activity.
2. Facilitate a shift in school culture that ehhances healthy nutritional decision-making.
3. Facilitate a shift in school culture that continues to aid the movement toward becoming a tobacco-free society
4. Actively remove barriers that impede progress toward creating healthier students.
5. Coordinate partnerships between school personnel, families, and community members to emphasize health benefits in and outside of the school setting.

Creating Healthy Kansas Students, Staff, Schools & Communities