Mission | Vision | Goals | Board of Directors | Staff

Mission
We accomplish our mission of promoting and supporting the development of school-based health care services through policy, advocacy,and technical assistance aimed at improving the health, well being, and academic success of students.

Vision
We envision a District of Columbia in which School Health Centers (SHCs) are an integral and financially sustainable part of the health care system for all children, especially for children in medically underserved areas of the District.

Goals
Goals of the DC Assembly

1. Establish sustainable school-based health care programs at 10 sites in the District by 2010;
2. Establish the DC Assembly as the policy leader for school-based health care in DC;
3. Establish strategic relationships with other groups, agencies, and associations to develop a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities for advocacy and support of SHCs in DC;
4. Work with City leaders to pass legislation and regulations to establish a funded and integrated SHC program;
5. Secure approval of Medicaid funding for child health services delivered in SHCs;
6. Establish organizational capacity to support an ongoing program of policy development, advocacy, school recruitment, provider recruitment, and technical assistance for school-based health care programs.

Board of Directors

Mark Minier, M.D. / President
Unity Health Care, Inc 
Upper Cardozo Health Center
3020 14th Street, NW 
Washington, DC 20009
mminier@unityhealthcare.org

Brooke Lehmann / Past-President
Childworks, PLLC
PO Box 32284
Washington, DC 20007
blehmann@childworkspllc.com

Olga Acosta Price, Ph.D. / Past-President
Co-Director Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
2121 K Street, NW Suite 250
Washington, DC 20037
oaprice@gwu.edu

Danielle Dooley, MD / Member
Unity Health Care, Inc
Upper Cardozo Health Center
3020 14th Street, NW 
Washington, DC 20009
ddooley@unityhealthcare.org

Eartha Isaac / Member
Public Health Advisor DOH Maternal and Primary Care Admin 
825 N. Capitol Street, NE, 3rd Floor 
Washington, DC 20002
Eartha.Isaac@dc.gov

Brenda Rhodes Miller / Member
Executive Director
DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
1112 Eleventh Street, NW, Suite 100  
Washington, DC 20001
bmiller@dccampaign.org

Barbara Parks, LICSW / Member
Clinical Program Administrator Dept. of Mental Health Prevention and Early
Intervention Programs 
64 New York Avenue, NE 
Washington, D.C. 20002
Barbara.Parks@dc.gov

Kristin Yochum, MPA / Member
Special Assistant to the State Superintendent
Office of the State Superintendent of Education
441 4th Street, NW
Suite 350 North
Washington, DC 20001
kristin.yochum@dc.gov
 

Staff

Jennifer Guste Leonard / Executive Director
5424 Nebraska Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20015 
JLeonard@DCASBHC.org

Tracy Bienenfeld / Intern
5424 Nebraska Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20015 
tbienenfeld@dcasbhc.org