Culturally Effective Health Care in School Health Services Resources

This page provides several additional resources from AAP and external organizations to support your efforts in providing CEHC in schools.

Health Equity, Impacting Factors and Language Inclusivity

What is Health Equity 
CDC utilized health equity definition with a list of factors that impact health equity and the role you can take to promote it in your work.

Ensuring Culturally Effective Pediatric Care 
AAP policy statement on culturally effective health care defined and its importance in improving the health outcomes of children.

What is Health Literacy  
CDC utilized health literacy definition and ways to take action to improve health literacy in your work.

AAP Words Matter 
AAP guidance on inclusive, anti-biased language to review as you engage students, their families, and the community.

Eliminating Race-Based Medicine 
AAP policy statement on addressing the elimination of race-based medicine as part of a broader commitment to dismantle the structural and systemic inequities that lead to racial health disparities.

Resources and Tools For School-Based Health Professionals

Virtual Healthy School Resources 
Models and tools broken up by the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) components seen as promising practices in this work.

Cultural Responsiveness and Equity 
Resources for school nurses on strategies and tools to implement cultural responsiveness and equity.

Hallways to Health 
Resources and tools for creating a school-wide culture of wellness.

Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Diagnoses among Medicaid-Enrolled Youth before the Pandemic 
Summary findings in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC. and discussion on the prevention and treatment of behavioral health conditions and youth well-being.

Screening Tool Finder 
Curated screening tool finder that can assist in assessing student needs. Includes tools to screen or assess for child development, perinatal depression, social drivers of health and more.

Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity Course 
Online training course to help you work towards cultural inclusivity and equity.

Culturally Responsive Walkthrough Tool 
Interactive tool with indicators to notice and measure ways students learn information in school setting.

How to Identify, Understand and Unlearn Implicit Bias in Patient Care 
Implicit bias definition and strategies to combat and reduce implicit bias.

The Role of Schools In Improved Child Health Outcomes

Working Together for Student Success 
Shared statement from the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) and the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) on the importance of working together to protect and advance the health and well-being of our nation’s school-age children and strategies to implement to move towards this goal. 

Understanding Social Influencers 
Combined statement on the role and importance of school nurses and school-based health centers. 

Every Student Succeeds Act 
Overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act signed into law to commit the nation to provide equal opportunity for all students and the key areas and progress made towards these efforts.

Healthy Schools Can Mitigate Ongoing Racial Inequities in Education 
Highlights and recommendations across six areas of education inequity (chronic absenteeism, school violence, discipline, education, infrastructure and staffing) linked to health and well-being that healthy schools are well-positioned to dismantle. 

Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services 
AAP policy statement on the important role school nurses play in promoting optimal care for the health and well-being of school-aged children in the school setting. 

Healthy Schools Can Create More Racially Equitable Communities 
Overview of how healthy schools may help address racial inequities across five key areas: health systems, public education, juvenile justice, environmental conditions and family income. 

Community Engagement

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) 
CDC created a framework on the alignment and collaboration of various stakeholders in addressing health in schools.

Principles of Community Engagement 
Overview and promising practices of community engagement.

Community Engagement Toolkit 
Community engagement toolkit with strategies on how to develop, implement and evaluate shared goals with case examples.

Assessments & Plans 
CDC provided guidance on developing a community health assessment and improvement plan with community stakeholders at the center to best meet community needs.  

Community Health Assessment & Improvement Planning
Description of steps involved a community health assessment and creation of a community health improvement plan to inform best practices to working with various stakeholders.  

Promoting Parent Engagement in School Health 
Introduction to parent engagement and guidance on how to engage parents in school health activities.