DC School Health Fact Sheet
This document defines School Health Centers and demonstrates how SHCs address the various health needs of District of Columbia students. The fact sheet includes statistics about poverty in DC and access to health services as well as DC-specific statistics regarding: obesity, mental health, asthma, adolescent health, and health education.

Improving Health Care Access
This PDF contains a brief fact sheet about the likelihood of adolescents visiting SHCs and several statistics about the advantages of SHCs with respect to absenteeism, tardiness, and suicide reduction.

Cost-savings
This PDF contains brief facts supporting research and evaluations which have demonstrated that SHCs represent cost-effective investments of public resources.

Childhood Obesity
This PDF is a one-pager demonstrating the ways that SHCs can help tackle the obesity problem in children and adolescents. Schools are one of the most natural social settings for a child-focused healthy intervention. SHCs treat overweight comprehensively, monitor results, and work collaboratively with community providers.

Benefits of SHCs
This PDF includes information about some of the benefits of SHCs - from reductions in emergency room visits and avoidable hospitalizations to significant increases in health care access by students.