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North Carolina's School-Based Health Centers Bring Comprehensive Primary Care Services to Underserved Adolescents
Making the Grade: State/Local Partnerships for School-Based Health Centers
From 1994 to 2001, staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Women and Children's Health created model comprehensive school-based health centers (SBHCs) and standardized practices, developed a comprehensive financing system and helped expand the centers in the state.
The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Making the Grade: State and Local Partnerships to Establish School-Based Health Centers national program.
Key Results: The Making the Grade project in North Carolina accomplished the following:
- Assisted by project staff, community partners in Wayne and Forsythe counties each established two new school-based health centers.
- Across the state, 26 North Carolina communities have sponsored 50 school-based health centers (46 survive today).
- To promote adoption of the comprehensive SBHC model, the project developed a three-tiered credentialing system based on the scope and comprehensiveness of the services provided at each center.
- The project developed a comprehensive financing strategy for the centers.
Making the Grade Project Results
Individual project results from the RWJF national program, Making the Grade: State and Local Partnerships to Establish School-Based Health Centers
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