About the Alliance

Colorado students may often find themselves in a confused mix of health services, healthy schools jargon, and competing priorities. The Colorado Alliance for School Health (the Alliance) will transform how health care and education partners work collaboratively to improve the health of students by integrating streamlined solutions to whole health. 

The Alliance was formed in 2016 with support from The Colorado Health Foundation. Members work together and with external partners to develop innovative approaches to identifying and responding to health needs of districts and schools in order to help ensure Colorado students are healthy, learning and thriving.  A comprehensive and coordinated response by school health stakeholders will align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model. CASH member organizations work directly in one or more of the ten components of the WSCC model. 

About Our Work

The Alliance has prioritized these milestones: 

• Forming a statewide alliance of health and education partners focused on health services (physical, oral, behavioral) in schools

• Establishing a process for working collaboratively with schools to develop a coordinated response to school and district health priorities and needs, in the hopes of reducing student absences

• Identifying a policy and advocacy platform that rewards innovation and removes barriers to working across systems.