1. Weakley County Schools
Coordinated School Health
Highlights
Trista Snider - Director

2. Healthy Students Learn Better!
Health and Academics
Our goal is to help reduce the prevalence of health problems that impair ACADEMIC SUCCESS.
We strive to address the non-academic barriers to learning.
Healthy Students Learn Better!

3. T.C.A. –
The Coordinated School Health Improvement Act of 1999,
Chapter 554 authorized and funded CSH. ($1 million)
Ten CSH district pilot sites established.
TCA
Expanded CSH statewide with funding for all school systems in
Tennessee. ($15 million)
– Weakly County CSH

4. Every day in America, children come to school not ready to learn.

7. Annual Report

8. School Health Services
Daily Care to Diabetic Students
Individualized Healthcare Plans for Students with Chronic Medical Conditions
First Aid
Emergency Care and Referral
Preventive Services
Provide Care to Pregnant Students
Provide Care to Staff

9. 46,097 Student Visits to School Nurse 94% Returned to Class Rate
School Nursing Data
School Year
(August – April)
46,097 Student Visits to School Nurse
94% Returned to Class Rate
9 Nurses in our 11 schools

10. School Health Screenings
Grades
Screenings Provided
Pre-K
Kindergarten
Second
Fourth
Sixth
Eight
Ninth
Vision
Hearing
Blood Pressure
Height & Weight (BMI)
Scoliosis (6th grade only)
Color Vision (2nd grade only)
CSH seeks passive permission from parents.
Screening results were sent home in Elementary students’ backpacks and mailed to Middle and High School.

11. School Screening Data Preliminary Data for 2015-2016
1,721 Students Screened (88%)
Plus Approx. 1,142 screened for
Vision and Hearing only (85%?)
Referral Rate
Vision 26%
Hearing 3%
Blood Pressure 3%
BMI 49% (1.3% under and 47.3% over)
Scoliosis 4%

12. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program (FFVP)
Sharon was awarded the USDA’s FFVP to provide a fruit/vegetable snack in the afternoon this school year.
In Kind $11,000
USDA FFVP

13. Weakley County Backpack Program
Approximately 280 students county-wide in grades PK-12.
Mission Statement
To help alleviate child hunger in Weakley County, Tennessee, by providing hungry children with nutritious and easy to prepare food at times when other resources are not available, such as on the weekend and school vacations.

14. Meal Delivery Services
Coordinated School Health funds one educational assistant to deliver lunch meals to the Alternative School students from Dresden K-8 cafeteria.

15. Physical Activity CSH Playground Updates ($4,000 per school)
Martin Primary playground
Provided PE teacher in-services and school in-services
In conjunction with the Healthy West grant, we gave each PE dept $500 to spend toward new PE equipment
Encouraged the use of GoNoOdle for brain breaks
Resource funded by BCBS. $99 value for each Elementary teacher – 189 active users

16. Fall Fitness Challenge 2015

17. Fall Fitness Challenge

18. Health Promotion for Staff
Promote corporate rate (up to half price) at The Sideline for staff, their spouses, and/or families.
Fall Fitness Challenge and BodPod assessments.
Walk Across TN – 39 teams
Stress management
In-service at Gleason, Dresden Elementary, and Martin Elementary

19. Healthy School Teams
Each school has a Healthy School Team and meets 3-4 times per year.
Each school team evaluated their school using the School Health Index (SHI) which looks at our 8 modules.
Each team developed School Health Improvement Goals to be implemented next school year.
Each school team reviews the Weakley County School’s Wellness Policy.

20. In-Kind Total History $342,921 – 2015-16 * $161,426 – 2014-15
$80,825 –
*In-kind services dollar amount was figured using the Tennessee Occupational Wages list found on TN Department of Labor website. TN volunteer service equivalent of $23.07 was used for volunteers and was provided by the state CSH office. In-kind donations & equipment was figured by the dollar amount donated.

21. 2016-2017 GOALS Childhood Obesity
Promote Physical activity in the classroom
Promote breakfast participation
Provide in-services to help teachers with health education
Submit newspaper articles detailing BMI data and efforts being made in the schools

22. Vision
Institute changes in the way School Screenings are scheduled and results are processed to expedite results being sent home to parents
Work with nurses and teachers to ensure that parents receive a phone call if results are significantly off for any of the screenings

23. Increase Family and Community Involvement
Increase marketing efforts via newspapers, newsletters, website, Facebook
Assist School Nutrition in setting up a display at beginning of year school functions such as Orientation or Parent Teacher Conference to increase breakfast and lunch participation