How School
Health Works
in Michigan

Since 1984, key state agencies (the Department of Community Health, the Department of Education, the Department of Human Services and the State Police including the Office of Highway Safety Planning) have worked together to promote school health in Michigan Schools. Networking with more than 115 voluntary and professional groups, the Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education was built on existing resources and created a mechanism to deliver them to communities in a more efficient and effective manner. Today, representatives of these and other agencies make up the Michigan Model State Steering Committee. By bringing together categorical programs, a School Health Program avoids duplication, more efficiently uses limited resources and provides a consistent message to schools about health promotion/disease prevention.

The Michigan Model for Health is implemented through a network of 25 regional Coordinators in Intermediate and large school districts. These Coordinators provide training, organization and support to the local schools who are implementing school health. At this time, more than 90% of public districts, 200 private schools and many of the new charter schools are voluntarily implementing the program. School health programs now reach 940,000 students and their families with key health promotion and disease prevention messages.

Coordinators

View a MAP of the regions in Michigan.

A network of 25 regional School Health Coordinators is responsible for the implementation of coordinated school health programs in the state of Michigan. These Coordinators and their e-mail addresses are listed below. If you reside in Michigan and would like more information about implementation in your area please contact your local coordinator. (Note: Some counties are split into two regions and are therefore listed as counties served by two differently coordinators.) The Coordinators and other individuals responsible for the implementation of Coordinated School Health Programs on the state and district level are members of the Comprehensive School Health Coordinators' Association, a professional organization dedicated to promoting the health of children and their families.