School-Based Interventions to Promote Equity and Improve Health, Academic Achievement, and Well-Being of Students

Overview

The purpose of this 5-year cooperative agreement is to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of school-age children and adolescents in underserved and disproportionately affected
communities. Recipients will use the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)
model to: establish key partnerships to support school health programs; promote dissemination
and implementation of CDC school health guidelines, tools, and resources through
Professional Development (PD) and Technical Assistance (TA); and use action planning to
implement physical activity, school nutrition, and school health policies, practices, programs,
and services within state and local education agencies (LEAs), schools, and out-of-school time
(OST) settings.

Expected outcomes to be achieved include an (1) increase in the numbers of schools with an
action plan based on the completion of CDC’s School Health Index (SHI); (2) increased
implementation of Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs (CSPAP); (3) increased
school nutrition and food security policies and practices; (4) increased school-based health
services that support students with chronic health conditions; and (5) increased physical activity,
healthy dietary behaviors, and self-management of chronic health conditions among students.

Purpose
In the priority local education agency (LEA) and corresponding schools, recipients will increase
physical activity, healthy dietary behaviors and self-management of chronic health conditions
among students; implement school health policies, practices, programs, and services at the state,
priority LEA, and school level; implement strategies and activities at the school level that
promote student and staff health; reinforce healthful behaviors; promote health equity and reduce
health disparities; and work with school staff to improve the knowledge and health behaviors of
students.

Outcomes
Outcomes are intended effects (or changes in someone or something other than the recipient)
resulting from the activities of the NOFO. The short-term and intermediate outcomes recipients
are expected to achieve by the end of the period of performance are:

Short-term Outcomes

• Increased number of schools with an action plan based on completion of the SHI
• Increased implementation of evidenced-based CSPAP
• Increased implementation of evidence-based school nutrition and food security policies and practices
• Increased implementation of evidence-based health services, policies and practices that support students with chronic health conditions

Intermediate Outcomes

• Increased physical activity among students in priority LEA and corresponding schools
• Increased healthy dietary behaviors among students in priority LEA and corresponding schools

• Average One Year Award Amount: $390,000
• Total Period of Performance Length: 5 year(s)
• Estimated Award Date: June 01, 2023