Coordinated School Health Express

Coordinated School Health

Mrs Marsha Polson
School Nurse Coordinator
Coordinated School Health

Marsha Polson is a blessed product of Cumberland County Schools. She graduated from Cumberland County High School, attended Roane State Community College, and graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelors degree in nursing. She worked at Cumberland Medical Center for 23 years in several capacities and presently works as needed in Nursing Administration. She is a certified teacher and taught Health Science at SMHS and CCHS for 4 1/2 years. She is currently the Director of Health Services, and Coordinated School Health. Her passion is to see everyone in Cumberland County from the elderly to the children healthy and educated regarding health care.

CONTACT INFO

Phone Number: 931-484-6135

Email: mpolson@ccschools.k12tn.net

Address: 368 4th Street Crossville, TN 38555

Nutrition Services, Coordinated School Health and Career and Technical combined forces to support Harvest of the Month in Cumberland County Schools.

Harvest of the Month is an initiative from the Tennessee Department of Education to highlight specific agriculture products within Tennessee during each month of the year, promoting awareness, education, and local procurement of food grown from the earth.

Cumberland County Nutrition Services has supported local produce incorporation into the cafeteria throughout the entire school year.

100% American grown produce $301,295.40

Plus and additional $82,168.48

For a TOTAL of $383,463.88

With about 15% being local $57,519.58

and over 200 pound of produce from our students and about $500 Nutrition services has paid them to be reinvested back into their CTE programs.

Coordinated School Health encourages healthy lifestyles, provides needed supports to at-risk students and helps to reduce the prevalence of health problems that impair academic success.
Coordinated School Health is an effective approach designed to connect health (physical, emotional and social) with learning. CSH improves children’s health and their capacity to learn through the support of families, communities and the schools working together.
The involvement of parents, families and community is the glue that binds the CSH. Full involvement of these entities as partners in the educational process provides valuable input, increases the commitment of all partners and ensures positive educational and health outcomes.