Improving access to affordable, comprehensive, and quality health care!
School-Based Health Centers
Every child deserves an equal opportunity to be healthy and to succeed in school. Unfortunately, too many children and adolescents in America face financial, geographical, and cultural barriers to health care.
School-Based Health Centers are comprehensive health centers located in or near a school. Delivering health services in school settings is a time–proven strategy for breaking down barriers that interfere with a child’s learning. School–based health centers also deal with important preventable health concerns such as violence, injury, asthma, obesity and tobacco use by shaping positive decisions and ultimately, behaviors that form lifelong habits.
Today, more than 1,700 school–based health centers serve nearly 2 million students in 46 states. In Kentucky, School-Based Health Centers in 16 schools are serving over 21,000 students.
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Mental Health Initiative
Our initiative is to improve the integration of medical, mental and behavioral health care for children and adolescents in Kentucky. In 2005, Kentucky Child Now was awarded one
of only three national grants from the Child Health Practitioner Support Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This 3–year collaborative effort between Kentucky Child Now (KCN) and the Kentucky Pediatric Society (KPS) seeks to: 1) Increase child health providers’ knowledge and improve management of mental and behavioral health
and substance abuse problems. 2) Strengthen the referral and communication process between child health providers and community mental health centers. 3) Increase pediatric resident
knowledge of child and adolescent mental health disorders. 4) Eliminate barriers to mental and behavioral health services for children covered by private health insurance.
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