title: What have we learned from collaborative partnerships to concomitantly improve both education and health?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Collaborative partnerships are an essential means to concomitantly improve both education outcomes and health outcomes among K-12 students.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe examples of contemporaneous, interactive, and evolving partnerships that have been implemented, respectively, by a national governmental health organization, national nongovernmental education and health organizations, a state governmental education organization, and a local nongovernmental health organization that serves partner schools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Each of these partnerships strategically built operational infrastructures that enabled partners to efficiently combine their resources to improve student education and health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To implement a Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Framework, we need to purposefully strengthen, expand, and interconnect national, state, and local collaborative partnerships and supporting infrastructures that concomitantly can improve both education and health.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN 47405. lkolbe@indiana.edu.
authors.forename: Lloyd J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Kolbe
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240. dallensw@kent.edu.
authors.forename: Diane D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Allensworth
authors.affiliation: Program Development and Services Branch, Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop E-75, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027. wpottsdatema@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Potts-Datema
authors.affiliation: Student Services/Prevention and Wellness, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 25 S. Webster Street, P.O. Box 7841, Madison, WI 53707-7841. douglas.white@dpi.wi.gov.
authors.forename: Douglas R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D002648:Child; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004522:Educational Status; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017149:Private Sector; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012574:Schools; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D013219:State Government; D013334:Students; D014481:United States
keywords: Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model; collaborative partnerships; coordinated school health programs; health-promoting schools; healthy schools