Comprehensive K-12 Health & Wellness Initiative

Health and education are natural partners. A mounting body of evidence has established links between comprehensive school health programs and educational outcomes, indicating that healthier students:

  • attend school more often
  • perform better academically
  • are significantly less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors

Thanks in part to a generous grant from the City of Irvine’s Educational Partnership Fund, and ongoing support from Hoag Hospital Irvine, IPSF is working with IUSD, health experts and community leaders to implement a comprehensive program to foster healthy and health-literate students. Current objectives include:

  • Increasing nursing staff and health clerk time at IUSD school sites. Our goal is to return staffing levels to 9 school nurses and lower the student to nurse ratio to 3400:1
  • Responding promptly and effectively to address the outbreak of Pertussis (whooping cough) and other communicable diseases, and continuing to keep staff, parents and community members informed
  • Continuing our efforts to engage the medical community in meeting the health needs of the IUSD student population and those who serve them