Declaration of Support for School-Based Health Centers

 

Join with the National Assembly! For the last three decades school-based health centers across the nation have been diligently providing quality health services to improve the physical, mental and academic health of school-age children and youth.

 

For the first time in the history of School-based Health Centers, a month has been set aside to celebrate the work done by these centers and to create greater national awareness about the valuable contribution they make to our children, their families and their communities.

 

Why a campaign? Without continued national support for SBHCs, our nation’s most vulnerable children – low-income and uninsured students – could lose access to a primary source of quality health care, putting at risk their ability to grow into healthy, productive adults.

 

During National School-Based Health Center Awareness Week, we will be educating national leaders – President Bush, the United States Congress and federal education and health officials – about the urgent need for continued and increased support for School-Based Health Centers.  And, we need your help.
 

Sign on.  You can help make National School-Based Health Center Awareness Month a success, by:

Who is NASBHC?  NASBHC’s membership is comprised of school nurses and nurse practitioners, health educators, principals and school board members, adolescent, pediatric and family physicians, physician assistants, social workers and psychologists, community, migrant and rural health centers, state adolescent health coordinators, and researchers and evaluators.  They represent hospitals, community, migrant and rural health centers, schools, higher education, foundations, federal, state and local public health agencies, HMOs, schools of nursing, medicine and psychiatry, Indian health services and health systems.