Improving Adolescent Health and Well-Being Through School-Based Surveillance and the What Works in Schools Program

Schools have direct contact with over 50 million students for at least 6 hours a day and play an important role in promoting adolescent health and well-being. CDC’s What Works in Schools program is a primary prevention approach that supports school districts in implementing three key strategies: providing quality health education, connecting youth to health services, and creating safe and supportive learning environments. This program has demonstrated effectiveness at reducing adolescent risk behaviors and experiences. In schools where the program has been implemented students were less likely to...

Component 1: You must demonstrate: Legal authority and oversight for the policies and practices of your school district; your school district has at least 40,000 students.Component 2: You must demonstrate that you represent, as a fiscal agent and lead agency, a consortium made up of contiguous school districts. As fiscal agent and lead agency, you will be responsible for managing the financial and reporting duties on behalf of the consortium. The lead agency must demonstrate that the consortium member school districts: have the legal authority and oversight for the policies and practices of the school districts within their jurisdictions; have a combined student enrollment of at least 40,000 students.For Component 1 and Component 2: Districts can demonstrate this legal authority and oversight in the following ways: state, territorial, or local legislation; a charter document; a letter from the state or local superintendent; a letter from the Governor’s office.

John Canfield qzc6@cdc.gov