Additional Healthy School Resources

For additional information on Healthy Schools and comprehensive school health in Canada and around the world, click on the following links:

 Website

• Communities and Schools Promoting Health (Safe Healthy Schools). A gateway to information on health promoting schools, providing links to research, reports, how-to manuals, planning and assessment tools, lesson plans and student web quests.
• Healthy Schools (Ministry of Education). The Ministry's web pages on Healthy Schools.
• Service Maps for Children and Youth With Behavioural Issues in Simcoe County This service guide will assist you in locating community services to which you may refer families and children or youth who have exhibited behavioural issues
• The Joint Consortium for School Health  serves to support its members by providing a forum, tools and up to date information for keeping current with the latest approaches to comprehensive school health in Canada and globally.
• Ophea’s Healthy Schools & Communities webpage is an online hub that provides key information on school health and facilitates partnerships between health units, community partners and schools.

Resources

• Comprehensive School Health Canadian Consensus Statement. Published by the Canadian Association for School Health, this statement outlines the issues, goals and components of comprehensive school health.
• Comprehensive School Health Handout. Published by the Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition, this document outlines the four pillars of comprehensive school health (curriculum, services, supportive social environment, and healthy physical environment).
• School Health Guidance Document-Ministry of Health Promotion May 2010
• Healthier students are better learners: a missing link in school reforms to close the achievement gap. Charles E. Basch
• More than the sum of its parts: Elements of a sustainable healthy school initiative Andrea Bodkin, MPH November 2008
• The review of the roots of youth violence, executive summary,  volume 2  The Honourable Roy McMurtry, and Dr. Alvin Curling
• Schools as a setting for promoting positive mental health: better practices and perspectives, January 2010, Joint consortium for school health

For specific information about Healthy Schools in Simcoe Muskoka please visit the Healthy Schools Program section of the webpage