Healthy CPS Network Initiative – P3RC Core Research Project

Family and Student Engagement

Improving Family Engagement around Health & Wellness
Family engagement is a shared responsibility of both school staff and families. School staff are committed to making families feel welcomed while families are committed to actively supporting their child’s learning and development.
Student Engagement & School Health and Wellness: Lessons Learned from CPS Students
To get students’ perspectives on Healthy CPS and their schools’ role in supporting students’ health and wellness, six discussion groups were conducted with 8th grade students in Network 5.

Healthy CPS Network Specialist

Healthy CPS Network Specialist Implementation Guide
This guide is a tool used by the Healthy CPS Network Specialist to support the implementation of health and wellness policy implementation in Chicago Public Schools. It may inform health and wellness policy implementation in other large and medium urban districts across the country.
Office of Student Health & Wellness Healthy CPS Network Specialist: Supports for Schools
This tool seeks to provide insights for the Principals and Wellness Champions as to how the Healthy CPS Network Specialist can support Principals and Wellness Champions with health and wellness-related programming, Healthy CPS achievement, and related issues.
How Can the Healthy CPS Network Specialist Support the Network & Schools?
This tool seeks to provide insights for the Network Chief as to how the Healthy CPS Network Specialist can support the Network and schools within the Network with health and wellness-related programming, Healthy
CPS achievement, and related issues.
Providing Health and Wellness TA Supports using an MTSS Framework
This tool seeks to provide insights for school districts nationwide as to how technical assistance providers can deliver a multi-tiered system of supports to schools to strengthen health and wellness-related programming.

School Wellness Teams

This series of Peer-to-Peer Learning Tools shares lessons learned from Chicago Public Schools Wellness Teams. Handouts include information about the Health Leadership Badge, the Health Instruction Badge, the Healthy Environments Badge, and the Health Services Badge.
Working to Achieve the Healthy CPS Health Leadership Badge
This handout includes basic information about the Health Leadership Badge, key resources to help schools in achieving this Badge, and recommendations from Wellness Teams who have been working to achieve this Badge.
Working to Achieve the Healthy CPS Health Instruction Badge
This handout includes basic information about the Health Instruction Badge, key resources to help schools in achieving this Badge, and recommendations from Wellness Teams who have been working to achieve this Badge.
Working to Achieve the Healthy CPS Healthy Environments Badge
This handout includes basic information about the Healthy Environments Badge, key resources to help schools in achieving this Badge, and recommendations from Wellness Teams who have been working to achieve this Badge.
Working to Achieve the Healthy CPS Health Services Badge
This handout includes basic information about the Health Services Badge, key resources to help schools in achieving this Badge, and recommendations from Wellness Teams who have been working to achieve this Badge.
Jarpe-Ratner E, Offstein M, William A, Odoms-Young A, Chriqui JF. Engaging Families in Supporting the Whole Child: Chicago West Side Parents’ Perceptions of Child Health. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 2024 Jan; 33, 968–981. doi: 10.1007/s10826-024-02786-2
Jarpe-Ratner E, Cleary M, Chriqui JF. The Role of Wellness Teams in Promoting Health and Wellness Implementation Strategies in Elementary Schools in Chicago. J Sch Health. 2023 May;93(5):402-410. doi: 10.1111/josh.13309.
Chriqui JF, Jarpe-Ratner E, Offstein M, Lin YC, Leider J, Malner C, Simon J, Zolfo S, Tully J, Declemente T. The Healthy CPS Network Specialist: A Model for Supporting Implementation of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Framework American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 2024 Oct 28.
Chriqui JF. Using Implementation Science (IS) Frameworks and Strategies to Support Implementation of Health and Wellness-Related Policies in Chicago Public Schools: The Healthy CPS Network Specialist Strategy. Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. 2023 Dec 11.
Chriqui JF. Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Network Specialist on School Health, Wellness, and WSCC-Related Policy Implementation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chicago Public Schools. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 2023 Nov 15.