This Program information provided by the Adolescent Health Section of the Office of Family Health Services.
School-Based Health Centers
Program e-mail: SBHC.program@state.or.us
Oregon's 45 School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are a unique health care model in which comprehensive physical, mental and preventive health services are provided to youth and adolescents in a school setting.
Adolescents are often reported to have the lowest access to health care service use of any age group, and they are the least likely to seek care through traditional office-based settings.
SBHCs:
- See children who otherwise would not get care,
- Help students get back to the classroom faster,
- Lessen the demand on parents to take time off to get children to well and urgent care needs, and
- Improves students' health.
To learn more about Oregon's SBHCs, use the links provided to review the overall program and the SBHC 2009 Status Report,School-Based Health Centers - A Home for Health Equality, which includes history, center locations, services, assessment, funding, challenges, growth, and expansion.
OREGON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS 2009 MAP
OREGON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS 2009 Fact Sheet
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