Student Health & Wellness

Category : Preparing Students for College, Career and Civic Life

Level : Student

Are students engaged in activities and behaviors that ensure their health and well-being?

Student health and wellness in and out of school have a direct impact on students’ academic and social outcomes. Students in communities of high poverty have more need for, but significantly less access to medical, mental health, and social services. Providing these services in schools, often through partnerships with health organizations, gives students the opportunity to learn about health and nutritional practices and gain access to health services; it also reduces absenteeism. Positive adult relationships and time spent in adult-supervised environments can also help shape well-being.

• Students spend time in after-school hours in adult-supervised environments.
• Students learn general health practices.
• Nutritional practices are taught at school.
• Drug prevention and youth intervention programs are available, accessible, and viewed as safe spaces.
• Students have increased or streamlined access to mental health, medical, and social services.
• Students are rarely absent.