FRESH Core Components/Pillars

The FRESH Partnership was launched at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000. It highlights the importance of equitable educational access,  health and development for the achievement of several of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The core components or pillars of FRESH Framework, published in 2014, provide the infrastructure for delivering programs, services, practices and policies that promote educational access and success, health and safety and social, sustainable development. FRESH partners recommend that the following components (program pillars) to be addressed in all schools:
  • over-arching government, ministry/agency/school policies adopting/requiring multi-component approaches and multi-intervention programs
  • classroom instruction and other forms of co-curricular and non-formal education promoting healthy & life skills,
  • a defined set school-based or school-linked health, social, food & other student services,
  • a safe, healthy physical environment and a positive psycho-social environment that includes student, parent & community involvement.
The FRESH Framework is a comprehensive, overarching framework for promoting educational success, health, safety, security, social and social development  through schools. The FRESH core components of policy, education, services, social and physical environment provide the means for other similar, compatible and overlapping "multi-component approaches" (MCA) such as Health-Promoting Schools, Child-Friendly Schools, School Health & Nutrition, Safe Schools, Inclusive Schools and others that promote the health and well-being of students, their families, and school staff.Here is an updated list of these MCA's as of 2020:
UN Agency Multi-Component Approaches (MCA):
Multi-Component Approaches promoted by FRESH NGO Partners:
* There several other MCA's published and promoted by other global NGO's and many variations published at the regional, national and local levels. 
In addition to providing the common, core components for the MCA's noted above, the FRESH core components also act as a delivery infrastructure and domains for organizing multiple interventions (specific policies, educational programs, specific services and changes to the physical and social environment of schools) within many multi-intervention programs (MIP) that address broad educational, health, safety, social, sustainability and security issues. Here is a listing of these MIP's prepared in 2020: 
Access to /Success in School
  • Food/ Cash Incentives to attend School
  • Girls Education
  • Dropout Prevention
  • Boys Education
  • Alternative Schools for High Risk Students
  • Positive Behaviour Support for Troubled
  • Students
  • Mainstreaming Students with Disabilities
  • indigenous Schooling
  • Integration with Early Childhood Programs/ Early Start Programs
  • Transitions to secondary School Programs
  • Schools in Disadvantaged Communities
  • Refugee/Immigrant/  Displaced Students Programs
  • Child Soldier Programs
  • Effective Schools
  • Transition Programs for young adults not in education, employment or training (NEET)
Genetic/Family Conditions
  • Child growth & development
  • Vision/Hearing
  • Individual Ed Programs for students with genetic, chronic health and other conditions
  • Stunting
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child Sexual Abuse
  • Mental Health/ Illness & Disorders

Community/Society Conditions/Behaviours
  • Sun Safety
  • Infectious Diseases/Immunization
  • Child Trafficking/ Exploitation
  • Preventing Violence
  • Preventing Bullying
  • Preventing Violent Extremism
  • Anti-Racism Policies/Programs
  • Gang prevention
  • School Security from Armed Conflicts
Personal Health, Safety Behaviours/Conditions
  • HIV/Sex Education/Relationships
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Substance Abuse
  • Tobacco Use
  • Physical Activity
  • Accidental Injury Prevention
  • Personal Hygiene