School-Based Health Centers

Group Health's Adolescent Center and the Group Health Foundation support school-based health centers. School-based health centers serve any student — with or without health insurance. For some young people, the teen health center is the sole source of health care or mental health care.

Group Health operates school-based health centers in Seattle schools by providing health care and mental health care in four schools and mental health care in three schools. Over 1,850 students made 11,431 visits to the seven health centers in the 2009 school year. Group Health receives grant funds from Seattle's Families and Education Levy and provides in-kind resources to operate the health centers. The Levy grant is administered by Public Health Seattle King County.

Group Health provides health and mental health care in:

• Aki Kurose Middle School Academy
• Washington Middle School
• Franklin High School
• Nathan Hale High School

Group Health provides mental health care in:

• Cleveland High School
• Rainier Beach High School
• Ingraham High School

Other partners include:

• Public Health - Seattle and King County
• Families and Education Levy

The Group Health Foundation supports the formation of a Washington State Association of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care. The Foundation awarded a grant to the Oregon School-Based Health Care Network to conduct research and plan for the new Washington State Association.

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