What does a CSTL school that provides nutrition and health promotion look like?

A CSTL school that provides nutrition and health promotion has healthy and well-nourished children who attend school regularly, complete their schooling, and are able to participate fully, concentrate in class and perform to their full academic, sporting and cultural potential.It provides:

1. Nutritional support, including school feeding and education to all learners through the curriculum, school feeding programmes and food gardens

2. Promotive and preventative health education to promote healthy living and responsible behaviours

3. Access to quality adolescent- and youth-friendly health services to complement the education provided—enabling learners to use the information and put it into practice by using heath promotive, preventative and therapeutic treatments to avoid diseases, know their health status, and promote healthy behaviours

4. A comprehensive package of education and services through multi-sectoral integrated, adolescent-targeted school health programmes that secure high-quality health education including:

• Promotive and preventative education and services such as immunisations and deworming
• Basic developmental screening and referrals for early treatment of vision and hearing impairments and attainment of developmental milestones
• Comprehensive sexuality education in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions
• Comprehensive HIV&AIDS prevention education
• Access to quality adolescent- and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services to enable children to use the information received at school and exercise their agency
• Comprehensive education, protection from discrimination through gender equality education and implementation of a re-entry policy for pregnant and parenting girls, and access to services including family planning, pre- and postnatal care for all children to prevent early, unplanned pregnancies, and where they occur, access services and support to ensure they remain at and complete school

5. All educators and health practitioners are trained on CSE and adolescent- and youth-friendly health serviceS

6. Strong and effective partnerships are established and maintained between the school and local/mobile clinic that offers adolescent- and youth-friendly services that complement the education provided, thus enabling learners to put their knowledge into good practices

7. Effective referral systems between the schools and clinics to ensure routine access to screening services and treatment where required