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Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Who We Are
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS) is a nonpartisan policy and program resource center established in 2001 to strengthen the well-being of children and youth through more effective health programming in schools. For the past decade, Center staff and consultants have worked with health departments, school systems, federal and state agencies as well as clinical providers to strengthen school-based prevention and service programs. The Center also explores how school and community-based health can be linked and how school systems of care for special needs children can be integrated with services for the broader student population.
The Center is sponsored by the Department of Prevention and Community Health in the GW School of Public Health and Health Services in close collaboration with its sister school, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Core Center support has come from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), with additional support from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, Bureau of Primary Health Care at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the California HealthCare Foundation, Center for Student Support Services, the Colorado Health Foundation, the Health Foundation of South Florida, the Horning Family Fund, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Nemours Health and Prevention Services, Quantum Foundation and Vision Council of America.
What We Do
To achieve its overarching goal of improving children's health, the Center is engaged in the following activities:
- Directs Caring Across Communities, an RWJF national grant initiative that is testing model programs to meet the mental health needs of immigrant children and youth. Building on strong community-school partnerships, the 15 funded sites are helping children and their families make their way in a new country.
- Advises government officials and leaders in schools and health care institutions on how to provide cost-effective and accountable health programs in schools.
- Researches issues and publicizes findings on the effectiveness of various school-based health programs and services.
- Analyzes policy options for organizing and financing health programs in schools.
- Researches issues and publicizes findings on the effectiveness of various school-based health programs and services.
- Engages with diverse communities involved in school-based health programs and child health promotion through an extensive array of print and electronic media.
- Contact Us
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
2121 K Street, NW, Suite 250
Department of Prevention and Community Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 466-3396
Fax: (202) 466-3467
Email: chhcs@gwu.edu
Web site: http://www.healthinschools.org
Caring Across Communities Program Findings
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools was awarded $125,619 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support dissemination of Caring Across Communities program findings, promote of a national discussion of key issues, and communicate with a growing network of collaborating organizations that work with immigrant and refugee communities. Olga Acosta Price, director of the Center, is project director for this award.