Safe & Healthy Schools

About Safe and Healthy Schools

Safe and Healthy Schools support districts throughout Wayne County to explore, adopt, and implement best-practice strategies to meet the physical, social, and emotional health needs of all students. Consultation, professional learning, and networking is available to all schools, and for schools without access to a school nurse, a cost-sharing program for School Nurse Consulting Services is available. Working collaboratively with schools and community partners, data-driven decision-making is encouraged and supported. For more information, please contact us.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model

According to the ASCD (2018), the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Model provides a new way of looking at the connection between health and learning. This new model combines the components of the traditional Coordinated School Health approach with the ASCDs whole child framework by:

Responding to the call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Incorporating the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education.
Providing a framework to address the symbiotic relationship between learning and health.

Health and education affect individuals, society, and the economy and, as such, must work together whenever possible. Schools are a perfect setting for this collaboration.

Resource Highlights

Mental Health Screening

Section 504 Toolkit

School Safety Resources

MiPHY Year

The Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth (MiPHY) is an online student health survey offered by the Michigan Departments of Education and Community Health to support local and regional needs assessment. The MiPHY provides student results on health risk behaviors including substance use, violence, physical activity, nutrition, sexual behavior, and emotional health in grades 7, 9, and 11. The survey also measures risk and protective factors most predictive of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and violence. MiPHY results, along with other school-reported data, will help schools make data-driven decisions to improve programming as well as provide data required by grant applications.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors priority health-risk behaviors and the prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults. It includes a national school-based survey conducted by the CDC and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments. For more information on the YRBS, visit the CDC's Adolescent and School Health website.