Health Services Mission

The Health Services Department is a combination of health education and physical education. It includes a planned, sequential K-12 program that integrates information about specific health topics. The mission is to provide students with a program that is capable of enhancing the quality of life, raising the level of health, and favorably influencing the learning process.

Expected long-term program benefits include:

• Fewer risk taking behaviors that contribute to disease, injury and death
• Better establishment of positive behaviors that promote health
• Better morale and productivity and less absenteeism by students
• Fewer instances of students dropping out of school due to health related behaviors (e.g. pregnancy, alcohol and drug use)
• Better health educated citizenry, more capable of handling future decisions regarding such issues as environmental hazards, safety and health laws thus reducing medical care costs to society
• Increased number of students acknowledging the value of abstinence from sexual intercourse until marriage
• Proper skill development and behaviors for experience in a minimum of three (3) lifetime activities

The major components of Health Services:

• Safe environment
• Physical education
• Health education
• Staff wellness
• Health services
• Mental and social health
• Nutrition services
• Parent involvement

The Director of Health Services:

• Coordinates and plans with various health agencies in the community, both public and private, in the implementation of health services
• Provides direction for instruction of the Healthful Living Curriculum, K-12, within the system and the individual schools
• Directs the development and implementation of a comprehensive, developmentally appropriate drug abuse prevention curriculum, K-12
• Coordinates special health education activities based on the needs of students, schools, and faculty
• Coordinates, plans, monitors, and serves as a resource to clarify policies and procedures for school medication program
• Serves as a liaison between the school system, parents, and community agencies, to include public speaking and consultation
• Coordinates the activities of the School Health Advisory Council and Safe and Drug-Free Schools Advisory Council to include quarterly meetings and committee meetings