Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)

The Wellness Advisory Council utilizes the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach as a framework to improve children’s health and remove barriers to learning. WSCC focuses on the long-term development and success of the whole child. This model "...responds to the call for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development." (ASCD, 2017)

The model promotes the collaboration among key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach to learning and its relationship to one wellbeing and health. An illustration of the model is in the graphic below. You can see that it is a coordinated and collaborative approach to addressing the needs of the whole child.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Illustration Description This complex image includes a five layered circle. The inner portion of the circle is a silhouette image of a personal jumping with one hand in the air. The second level of the circle surrounds that silhouette with the five words clockwise reading: Safe, Engaged, Supported, Challenged, Healthy. The third layer includes two phrases: 1) Coordinating policy, process, & practice. 2) Improving learning and improving health The fourth layer includes 10 tiles with the following phrases clockwise reading: Health Education, Physical Education & Physical Activity, Nutrition Environment & Services, Health Services, Counseling, Psychological, & Social Services, Social & Emotional Climate, Physical Environment, Employee Wellness, Family Engagement, Community Involvement. The fifth layer includes two sections half surrounding the circle both with the word “Community.”