• Learn how to make a school health program a reality
• Learn how to strengthen school health through strategic planning, evidence-based guidelines, minimum data sets, continuous quality improvement, and program evaluation
• Learn how to improve the quality, sophistication, and coordination of your school health program
• Learn how to work as members of an interdisciplinary school health team

Course Description:  This certificate program prepares school health personnel to coordinate school health programs.  The basic certificate program is one week in duration.  In subsequent summers, supplemental seminars will be available to allow coordinators to remain current in this field.

Course Objectives:  Upon completion of the one week School Health Coordinator program, school health personnel will be able to:

1. Conduct a school/community needs/risk assessment and use these findings to develop a strategic plan for a coordinated school health program.
2. Identify the staffing requirements for a coordinated school health program using a differentiated practice model.
3. Implement staff development efforts that will increase the effectiveness of the school health program.
4. Initiate the use of evidence-based practice guidelines, minimum data sets, and continuous quality improvement efforts in the operation of the program.
5. Conduct school health evaluations using health and education indicators.
6. Collaborate with school and community colleagues and organizations to establish partnerships that will enhance school health and increase the resources available for this work.

Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs, edited by Eva Marx and Susan Wooley, 1998, Teachers College Press.

"A school health coordinator is a professional who is prepared to advocate, coordinate, and manage school health programs.  This person has the skill to facilitate and conduct school/community needs assessments, to plan, implement and evaluate the health program at school and to design staff develop models.  These individuals have the leadership abilities to initiate working school/community partnerships for the well-being of all the students and their families."

Registration Fee:  $850.00 (includes materials listed below)

• School Health Needs Assessment Starter Kit
• Supervisory Leadership: A Training Manual for School Nurses Working with School Health Paraprofessionals
• Health Is Academic
• Several other pertinent publications

For credit, the above fee is in addition to the tuition noted below.

Undergraduate:  $483 for 3 credit hours (in-state)

                         $1686 for 3 credit hours (out-of-state)

Graduate:          $636 for 3 credit hours (in-state)

                         $2193 for 3 credit hours (out-of-state)

For more information or to register, please contact:

Office of School Health

School of Nursing

University of Colorado Denver

P.O. Box 6508

Mail Stop F-541

Aurora, CO  80045-0508

Phone 303-724-0644

Toll-free 1-866-724-0645

Fax 303-724-0905