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Seeing the Benefits of Vision Care for Children
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
The National Society to Prevent Blindness, Prevent Blindness America New York Division conducted a public service advertising campaign starting in 2001 to encourage vision care for school-age children in New York City.
Babies Can't Wait
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in March 2001, New York State's Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children developed and implemented a pilot training project in the Bronx family court system called "Babies Can't Wait."
The Story of Fransheska and Her Younger Sister Yolamar
November 18, 2009 | Program Result
Fransheska and younger sister, Yolamar, members of an immigrant Puerto Rican family living in Rochester, N.Y., have had asthma since early childhood.
Making the Grade - Expanding and Improving School-Based Health Centers in New York
November 14, 2003 | Program Result
New York State improved its system of school-based health centers by standardizing practices at existing centers, stabilizing funding, and launching additional school-based health centers with community partners.
Improving Data Quality in New York City's Immunization Registry
June 1, 2002 | Program Result
In October 1997, when CIR applied for the All Kids Count grant, 60 percent of private, office-based providers were sending immunization reports to the registry in response to a mandate that went into effect in January that year.
Easing the Transition from Hospital to School for Kids Needing High-Tech Care
April 1, 2000 | Program Result
A project team at Children's Hospital Corporation in Boston determined how to organize, deliver, and finance services for technology-dependent children who have made the transition from hospital to the public schools. These are children who are on long-term oxygen therapy, ventilatory assistance, intravenous feedings, and other types of highly technical care. Then they replicated the project.
Queens, N.Y., High School Increases Student Mental Health Services as Part of National Caring for Kids Program
January 23, 2007 | Program Result
Staff at the Franklin K. Lane High School Student Health Center expanded mental health services by increasing service capacity, quality of care and reimbursement.
New York Study Shows Telemedicine is Effective for Care of Low-Income Children in School-Based Settings
April 30, 2007 | Program Result
The University of Rochester Medical Center expanded a pilot project in Rochester called Health-E-Access, which they had created in 2001 to study the use of telemedicine to treat inner-city students.
Health Center at Bronx High School Adds Dental Program to Further Serve Low-Income Minority Students
May 31, 2007 | Program Result
David Appel, M.D., of Montefiore Medical Center and staff at the Montefiore Medical Center School Health Program site at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, N.Y., established a dental program for students.