Welcome to Coordinated School Health Programs

Welcome to the Coordinating School Health Programs web site, brought to you by the Maine Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services. The main purpose of our site is to introduce the eight components of Coordinated School Health Programs to school personnel, parents and students, especially within the state of Maine, but also beyond its borders.

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You will see the "buttons" for the eight components at the top of your screen. Clicking on any one of them will take you to the Guidelines for that component. Each of the eight components has resources, contacts, regulations/laws, and links relating to that component. The guidelines for each component describe best practices in that component area, and were developed by committees of Maine educators, community service providers, and state department personnel, with public input.

On the left side of your screen are buttons that link you to general information on school health. (Be sure to check out our Hot Topics, Calendar, and latest quarterly Newsletter.) The Guidelines for Coordination button, takes you to the first chapter of the Coordinated School Health guidelines, which provides the steps necessary to coordinate a school health program. This page with also allow you to view or download a print version of the Preface and Introduction. Other buttons along the left side will link you with sources of funding, data, resources, contacts and general information on school health-related issues. When you click on the buttons at the top of the screen, you will see similar (but shorter) lists of resources along the left margin for each component area.

The CSHP Guidelines may be downloaded by section in their respective component areas. Thank you to all who wrote and helped us prepare the CSHP guidelines. We truly appreciate your input and help throughout the long process.

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