The WSCC model, developed by CDC and ASCD, encompasses the whole child initiative and is a comprehensive, multicomponent approach to deliver healthy eating and physical activity programs and interventions in schools.

The approach is important because collaboration between schools, government agencies, and community organizations has the most positive impact on the health outcomes of young people.

The WSCC model improves alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. It incorporates the components of a coordinated school health program around the tenets of a whole child approach to education and provides a framework to address the symbiotic relationship between learning and health.