Healthy Schools
Ten-Year Roadmap

Every school succeeds. Every educator excels. Every child thrives.

A bold, evidence-based collection of opportunities to accelerate transformational change.

The Roadmap was developed by National Healthy Schools Collaborative, a collective impact group of well-established, nationally recognized organizations working in health and education.

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By increasing alignment and coordination across health and education systems over the next decade.

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the interdependence of health and learning. It also created a historic opportunity to build systems that better serve the whole child and their educators. The Roadmap aims to inspire communities to build on the work they are already undertaking to meet this moment.

10 Priorities for the Next 10 Years

1. Create shared goals that recognize the importance and interdependence of all elements of a healthy school.
2. Institute adequate and equitable funding models at the federal, state, and local levels to create and sustain healthy schools.
3. Bolster the quality of local health systems, health care services, and social service organizations’ capacity to provide consistent primary care.
4. Provide healthy spaces to learn, play, and work for every student and educator.
5. Optimize existing funding streams.
6. Strengthen the knowledge of the interdependence between education and health among various stakeholders.
7. Improve data regulation, collection, transparency, privacy, and interoperability.
8. Address workforce shortages by attracting, developing, championing, and retaining educators who reflect the population of students in communities where they work, live, and play.
9. Support the public, particularly families, in becoming partners in strengthening health and learning outcomes.
10. Enhance the ability of community-based organizations to identify, and mobilize people and communities around issues related to healthy schools.

The National Healthy Schools Collaborative

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Healthy Schools Ten-Year Roadmap

A bold, evidence-based collection of opportunities to accelerate transformational change.

By increasing alignment and coordination across health and education systems over the next decade.

10 Priorities for the Next 10 Years

1. Create shared goals that recognize the importance and interdependence of all elements of a healthy school.

2. Institute adequate and equitable funding models at the federal, state, and local levels to create and sustain healthy schools.

3. Bolster the quality of local health systems, health care services, and social service organizations’ capacity to provide consistent primary care.

4. Provide healthy spaces to learn, play, and work for every student and educator.

5. Optimize existing funding streams.

6. Strengthen the knowledge of the interdependence between education and health among various stakeholders.

7. Improve data regulation, collection, transparency, privacy, and interoperability.

8. Address workforce shortages by attracting, developing, championing, and retaining educators who reflect the population of students in communities where they work, live, and play.

9. Support the public, particularly families, in becoming partners in strengthening health and learning outcomes.

10. Enhance the ability of community-based organizations to identify, and mobilize people and communities around issues related to healthy schools.

The National Healthy Schools Collaborative

Additional Contributors and Supporters

Healthy Schools

Ten-Year Roadmap

Healthy Schools
Ten-Year Roadmap