School-Based Health

There are 87 School-Based / School-Linked Health Centers and programs in the State of Michigan delivering comprehensive primary, preventive, and early intervention services to nearly 200,000 children of all grade levels in schools across the state every year.

School-Based Health Centers are focused on identifying, preventing and treating medical and behavioral health problems that can interfere with a student's learning process and focus on building a healthy foundation for youth.

Feature Story: February is School-Based Health Center Month

Imagine that your child needs to see the doctor, you can’t leave work and you don’t know what to do. Wouldn’t it be nice if the doctor’s office was right on the school premises so your child could just walk down the hall for his/her appointment?

In thousands of schools across the country that is exactly what is happening. Through partnerships between schools and community health organizations such as Community Health Centers, School-based Health Centers are providing quality, comprehensive primary and preventive health care that is helping to keep students healthy and in the classroom. As you can imagine, the School-Based Health Center model increases access to health care, especially for students who are uninsured, underserved, and have nowhere else to get care.

Michigan’s School-Based Health Centers, also called Child and Adolescent Health Centers, have been delivering comprehensive health care and a wide range of support services for over 20 years. They staff a multi-disciplinary team of pediatric or adolescent health specialists who address critical health issues that impact youth today, such as asthma, diabetes, mental health problems, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. Read more

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Feature Story: February is School-Based Health Center Month

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