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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.
DC Healthy Youth Coalition and Metro TeenAIDS partnered with Zogby International to conduct telephone surveys with a sample of 652 DC parents. The survey asked parents' opinions on the growing rate of HIV and STDs in the District, school-based sex education, and health resources in schools.
From 2004-2005, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) conducted their tenth census on School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) since 1986. The objectives of the census were to: provide a better understand of the ways in which SBHCs meet the needs of underserved children and adolescents; collect up-to-date data on demographics, staffing services, prevention activities, clinical trends; and create a national directory of programs.
The purpose of “Preparing for the Flu: A Communication Toolkit for Schools” is to provide basic information and communication resources to help school administrators implement recommendations from CDC’s Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials and School Administrators for School (K-12) Responses to Influenza during the 2009-2010 School Year.
The toolkit includes: Questions and Answers about CDC’s Guidance for State and Local Public Health Officials and School Administrators for School (K-12) Responses to Influenza during the 2009-2010 School Year; 2 Fact Sheets to Inform Schools and Teachers; 3 Fact Sheets to Inform Parents; Information on Where to Find Posters for Schools about Flu Prevention; and 2 Template Letters (or E-mails) for Schools to Send to Parents. (Document from the CDC website: http://www.flu.gov/plan/school/toolkit.html)
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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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