School Health Index
A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide

A: The WSCC model, developed by CDC and ASCD, encompasses the whole child initiative and is a comprehensive, multicomponent approach to deliver healthy eating and physical activity programs and interventions in schools.

A: The approach is important because collaboration between schools, government agencies, and community organizations has the most positive impact on the health outcomes of young people.

A: The WSCC model improves alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. It incorporates the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education and provides a framework to address the symbiotic relationship between learning and health.