Wellness, Committee Designation

Committee Designation
Hawaii State Department of Education

CD2: The committee annually completes the School Health Index and utilizes the results and other data sources to identify priority areas and to monitor improvements in those areas.

School Health Index slide show
School Health Index (SHI) slideshow (Powerpoint) - School Health Index (SHI) slideshow (PDF)

The School Health Index (SHI): Self-Assessment & Planning Guide was developed by CDC in partnership with school administrators and staff, school health experts, parents, and national nongovernmental health and education agencies for the purpose of

Enabling schools to identify strengths and weaknesses of health and safety policies and programs,
Enabling schools to develop an action plan for improving student health, which can be incorporated into the School Improvement Plan, and
Engaging teachers, parents, students, and the community in promoting health-enhancing behaviors and better health.

There is growing recognition of the relationship between health and academic performance, and your school’s results from using the SHI can help you include health promotion activities in your Academic & Financial Plan.

It is important to know what the SHI is and what it is not.

	The SHI is a...	and not a...
	Self-assessment and planning tool	Research or evaluation tool
	Community-organizing and educational process	Tool for auditing or punishing school staff
	Focused, reasonable, and user-friendly experience	Long, bureaucratic, painful process
	Process that identifies no-cost or low-cost changes	Process that requires expensive changes
	Process that provides justification for funding requests	Process that identifies unfunded mandates

School Level Impact

“Are We There Yet?”

Another way to evaluate and determine success in Coordinated School Health is to look at School Level Impact over time. Success in Coordinated School Health doesn’t happen over night. Small improvements lead to large scale impact for students and staff. When your school begins to see improvements in the following areas below, the momentum is moving in the positive direction.

Comparing with baseline data, does your school data show improvements in any one or more of the following areas?

Increase in student attendance.
Improved Hawaii State Assessment scores.
Decrease in Chapter 19 referrals (decrease in student misbehavior, bullying, harassment, etc).
Decrease in student pregnancies.
Decrease in student suspensions.
Decrease in high school drop-out rates.
Increase in school breakfast participation count.
Increase in school lunch participation count.
Decrease in health room visits.
Decrease in the number of students who smoke.
Decrease in the number of staff who smoke.
Decrease in staff absences.
Increase in positive responses from school quality surveys.
Increase in parent participation in school related activities

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