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WELLNESS PROMOTION

The District recognizes that students and staff are facing increasing health
and safety issues that can affect their overall wellness, ability to learn and
perform, and ability to be productive citizens of our society. In an effort to
assist in addressing these issues the District has their “Wellness Promotion
Policy” (2.035). This policy incorporates the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s “Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child” (WSCC)
model. The District is committed to providing a school environment that
enhances learning and development of lifelong wellness practices,
promotes, and protects the overall well-being of all students and staff.
Please reference the policy by clicking on this link: Wellness Promotion
Policy (2.035) - Latest Revision.

The WSCC model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated school health approach and the whole
child framework by:

❏ Responding to the call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to
improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
❏ Incorporating the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child
approach to education.
❏ Providing a framework to address the symbiotic relationship between learning and health.

The District established a Wellness Promotion Task Force (WPTF) that meets periodically to share progress of overall
health and wellness initiatives throughout the District and Community, and we welcome all who wish to attend. Anyone
interested in attending any of the WPTF meetings, please email at wellness@palmbeachschools.org.

Wellness Promotion Task Force Purpose: To create an educational forum that allows students, staff, parents, community
partners, and members of the public to successfully collaborate in the promotion of healthier lives. With the District’s
ultimate goal of improving student performance, the direction of the Wellness Promotion Task Force is to encourage a
proactive approach to holistically address the health, wellness, and safety of all schoolchildren and staff.

For more information go to the District's Wellness Promotion.

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