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Welcome to the DC Assembly on School Health Care
 The DC Assembly on School Health Care (DC Assembly) is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to providing quality and accessible health care for children and adolescents in the District of Columbia. The DC Assembly was founded to provide coordinated efforts to increase the availability of health care for at-risk and medically underserved populations through partnerships involving schools and health care providers.
Parents support medical services: A Recent DC Poll
Parents want their children to have access to qualified medical professionals in their school to speak with.1
· 76% of parents agreed that if we are serious about preventing unintended pregnancies and diseases like HIV, birth control and condoms must be widely available and accessible in DC schools.
· The large majority of parents (87%) said that if their child did not come to them first, they would want their children to have a full range of health care services – including treatment for illnesses such as strep throat and asthma – from medical professionals in their schools.
1 DC Healthy Youth Coalition and Metro TeenAIDS teamed up with Zogby International to conduct telephone interviews with a sample of 652 parents. The poll has a +/-3.9% margin of error.
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DC Assembly on School Health Care
5424 Nebraska Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20015
Phone: 202-237-6855
Fax: 202-237-7070
E-mail: info@dcasbhc.org
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