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Overview The School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) is pleased to offer a new learning collaborative for school-based health centers (SBHCs) that want to increase well-child visits and vaccinations among school-aged youth. This activity is supported through an independent educational grant from… Read More »Increasing Immunizations Through Well-Child Visits: School-Based Health Center Learning Collaborative Opportunity

For the first time, our Board of Directors will be led by one of our State Affiliate leaders.   Nancy Rodriguez, Executive Director of the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care, will serve as Board Chair. Others who will serve on… Read More »SBHA Board to have new leaders, include a voting youth member for the first time

Thank you to all who attended the National School-Based Health Care Conference this past week! We enjoyed seeing you all in person and learning alongside one another. It was a great honor and thrill to have Xavier Becerra, Secretary of… Read More »National School-Based Health Care Conference wrap-up: Connecting and learning together again

We know that partnerships between schools and community healthcare organizations are a powerful collaboration to support healthy students in achieving their full potential. School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are an effective and equitable model for providing comprehensive, integrated healthcare in the school setting… Read More »Information Sharing and Confidentiality Protection in School-Based Health Centers

SBHA’s Senior Program Manager Addie Van Zwoll recently presented a poster at NatCon23, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s annual conference in Los Angeles. “Youth Mental Health Matters:  Innovative Programming to Address Mental Health Needs in Schools” shows how school-based health centers… Read More »SBHA presents at NCMW conference, partners on learning collaborative

We’ve been hearing from our partners about exciting developments at the state level to advance school-based health care. In New Mexico, a law was passed codifying that the New Mexico Department of Health will fund and support the opening and operation of… Read More »SBHC Legislation and Funding Advances at State and Federal Levels

Through our Youth Safety Net Project, the School-Based Health Alliance is excited to announce year three of our learning collaboratives on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) screening and care!   This learning collaborative will help health centers create and develop a sustainable screening practice, while learning… Read More »Children & Adolescents Social Determinants of Health Learning Collaboratives

Washington, D.C. – The School-Based Health Alliance today released a new toolkit, “Emerging Models And Resources To Address Food Insecurity In School-Based Health Centers,” created in partnership with Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign. This toolkit supports school-based health centers… Read More »School-Based Health Alliance Announces New Online Resource to Support School-Based Health Centers in Tackling Hunger

Two of our staff members had the pleasure of attending the New York School-Based Health Alliance annual conference in Cooperstown, New York, on March 17 – 18. Jacquelyn Christensen, our Vice President of Quality, Research & Evaluation, and Katherine Cushing,… Read More »New York SBHA conference highlights engagement, data innovations