An Idea Book: Linking Community Health Centers with Schools Serving Low-Income Children
Author: United States Department of Health and Human Services
Date Published: 1996
This Idea Book was written for practitioners and policy makers who recognize the importance of interactions between education and health efforts and want to create links between schools and community health-care providers. Several excellent guides have been written on how to establish school-linked or school-based health programs, and this book is intended not to duplicate them but to augment them with lessons learned from case studies. This book focuses specifically on establishing links between school serving low-income children and community or migrant health centers-just one of many types of possible linkages in the broader field of comprehensive services. Community or migrant health centers (C/MHCs) are health care organizations with a mandate to serve residents in underserved communities.
Date Published: 1996
This Idea Book was written for practitioners and policy makers who recognize the importance of interactions between education and health efforts and want to create links between schools and community health-care providers. Several excellent guides have been written on how to establish school-linked or school-based health programs, and this book is intended not to duplicate them but to augment them with lessons learned from case studies. This book focuses specifically on establishing links between school serving low-income children and community or migrant health centers-just one of many types of possible linkages in the broader field of comprehensive services. Community or migrant health centers (C/MHCs) are health care organizations with a mandate to serve residents in underserved communities.
