 Our
goal is to provide parents, students, and employees of
Shelby County Schools with a better coordinated system
of health services in order to enhance our overall health
and wellbeing. We have responded to the needs of our
school system and mandates of the State of Tennessee
by beginning to further develop networks that will make
the use of our school health services more seamless.
It should be the goal of all community stakeholders to
ensure that our children have healthy behaviors so that
they will become healthy adults. In addition, it is to
our advantage as well to develop better awareness of
healthy practices that will assist in keeping us healthy
as parents, families, teachers, administrators, and for
all involved in the education of our students.
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that
there are eight (8) areas of interaction necessary in
coordinating the health needs of our schools and communities.
We
are charged with providing information and developing
programs that will be interactive so that all components
of the model are being addressed.
You
will see that we are committed to the direction of the
Coordinated School Health Model as laid out by the Centers
for Disease Control and the Tennessee Office of Coordinated
School Health through the expansion of existing programs
and the addition of new ones.
If
you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions of programs
that will be relevant to any of the components, please
email healthyliving@scsk12.org
Or
contact:
Shunji Q. Brown-Woods
Coordinated School Health Specialist
(901) 321-2560
(901) 321-2660
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