Through advocacy, education, and networking, The CT Association Of School Based Health Centers Positions SBHCs as leaders in the broader healthcare system for CT's children and adolescents. Healthy children grow into healthy adults, which is why CASBHC focuses on improving health care for students.
Our health care advocacy group works with partners, offers resources, and sponsors initiatives designed to boost the number of school-based health centers. Through these health facilities, we also expand access to health care for young people. Reach out to us for additional information. Connecticut's school-based health centers have been delivering comprehensive health care to students in schools for 30 years, where they spend 25% of their day.
Our health care advocacy group works with partners, offers resources, and sponsors initiatives designed to boost the number of school-based health centers. Through these health facilities, we also expand access to health care for young people. Reach out to us for additional information. Connecticut's school-based health centers have been delivering comprehensive health care to students in schools for 30 years, where they spend 25% of their day.
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CASBHC is an advocacy and networking organization committed to increasing access to quality health care for all children and adolescents in Connecticut schools. Connecticut's School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are comprehensive primary health care facilities licensed as outpatient clinics or as hospital satellites.
School-based health centers play a vital role in keeping children healthy and in school by providing immunizations on-site, dietary and exercise counseling, medication management, and asthma treatment. Estimates show that only a 1/4 of children who need mental health care receive it. Of those who receive mental health services, 70 - 80 % received that care in a school setting.
The assembled materials support coordinated community action that addresses local chronic absenteeism's underlying causes affecting millions of children in our nation's public schools each year. Improving attendance and reducing chronic absence is not rocket science, but it does take commitment, collaboration, and tailored approaches to each school community's particular challenges and strengths.
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP) and the California School-Based Health Alliance are pleased to announce the development of a new tool! Asthma affects over 7 million children nationwide and is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism. Even children with the best medically managed asthma will continue to suffer if they face environmental asthma triggers in their home, school, and outdoor environments.
The Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers offers training opportunities for cultural competency continuing education units for school-based health clinicians in the state. Cultural competency training is now required for licensure by the State of Connecticut for all mental health clinicians and a requirement for all SBHC staff in DPH-funded sites.
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