Healthy Schools Champions
Welcome to the Healthy School Champion page!
The Healthy School Champions Recognition Program utilizes the “Score Card” as a voluntary self-assessment tool for schools to examine best practices in the following eight component areas of Coordinated School Health (CSH). The Score Card includes questions about your school health policies and programs, and also has a place for you to share successes.
1. Health Education: Students who participate in health education classes that use effective curricula increase their health knowledge and improve their health skills and behaviors.
2. Physical Education and Activity: Physical activity among adolescents is consistently related to higher levels of self-esteem and lower levels of anxiety and stress.
3. Health Services: Preventive health services provided through schools, coupled with health education and counseling that promote healthy lifestyles and self-sufficiency, can help contain health care costs.
4. Nutrition Services: Poor nutrition decreases cognitive functioning and performance in the areas of language, concentration and attention.
5. Counseling, Psychological and Social Services: Youth receiving mental health services have experienced decreases in course failures, absences, disciplinary referrals and improved grade point averages.
6. Healthy and Safe School Environment: The physical condition of a school, the psychosocial climate, and the school’s culture are statistically related to student academic achievement.
7. Health Promotion for Staff: Health promotion for staff influences productivity and absenteeism, and might even reduce health insurance costs (based on findings from other worksite initiatives).
8. Community, Family, & Student Involvement: Schools that collaborate with students’ families, local businesses, community organizations and health services see improved classroom behavior, increased PTA membership, and improved family functioning.
Completing the Score Card is voluntary. Based on Score Card results, schools receive monetary and other awards presented at an annual event, and receive on-going recognition and support for their health-related efforts.
All schools have free access to the Score Card assessment tool and
resources provided through the Healthy School Champions’ website. Log on
at:
www.healthyschoolchampions.org
The Score Card is a collaborative effort between the Colorado Coalition
for Healthy Schools (a partnership with Colorado Department of
Education’s Office of Health and Wellness and the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment) with management by The Colorado Legacy
Foundation. For additional resources and information about Colorado’s
efforts in Coordinated School Health, go to the Colorado Coalitions for
Healthy Schools and Coordinated School Health website at:
www.cde.state.co.us/HealthAndWellness/CSH_home.htm
2011-12 Healthy School Champions
In 2012, thirty-two schools were recognized at The Colorado Legacy Foundation’s Healthy Schools Summit held in Denver on April 4, 2012. Champions received recognition through banners and monetary awards of $500 -$5,000.
Center High School - $3,000 Coal Creek Canyon K-8 - $2,500
Columbia Elementary - $2,500 Cougar Run Elementary - $2,500
Gunnison Elementary - $5,000 Manitou Springs Elementary - $5,000
Monroe Elementary - $2,500 Place Bridge Academy - $2,500
Skoglund Middle School
- $3,000 Southern Hills Middle School
- $2,500
2012-13 Score Card
Announcements will be made on this website and sent to schools to
provide information about completing a Score Card for the 2012-13
academic year. Stay tuned for updates! In 2013, the Healthy School
Summit will be held on April 17, and is open to all schools, whether or
not they utilize the Score Card. The Summit will offer an exciting day
of educational sessions and networking opportunities.
For more information, please contact:
For more information, contact Katy Fleming, Score Card Coordinator at 303-866-5350