CSHC Spotlights Lincoln High School's "Health Idol" Program

Updated Nutrition and Physical Activity Factsheet

Oakland Tribune, "Oakland Middle Schools Get $15 million"(5/5/08)


LA Times, "Health Clinic Opens on Sun Valley Campus" (4/3/08)


Balboa High School Teen Advisory Board Initiates Policy Change

Save the Date! CSHC Conference, March 3-4, 2009 in Sacramento, CA.

New CSHC brochure

Job Openings at CSHC:

Director of Operations

Central Valley Field Coodinator



Governor's Advisory Workgroup: Report and Recommendations

 SB 564 (Ridley-Thomas) would provide funding for school health centers.


Governor Schwarzenegger's White Paper on School-Based Health Centers


6/26/08: School-based Medi-Cal moratorium extended to April 2009
 

SB 564 (Ridley-Thomas)
School Health Centers Expansion Act of 2007

 

CSHC is sponsoring SB 564, authored by Senator Ridley-Thomas (D-26), which would create a grant program for school health centers to be administered by the Public School Health Center Support Program office created when AB 2560 (Ridley-Thomas), became law in 2006.

SB 564, The School Health Centers Expansion Act of 2007, would provide resources to communities to support new and existing school health centers.

SB 564:

•  Establishes a school health center grant program to be administered by the Public School Health Center Support Program (Department of Health Services).

•  Outlines eligibility criteria for those seeking funds.

•  Creates grants to support planning; facilities and start-up operations; and/or the expansion of school health center services.

•  Provides resources for technical assistance and evaluation to support the expansion.

 
   
 

SB 564 is co-sponsored by the California Primary Care Association and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.

To learn more about the bill, download the SB 564 fact sheet .

 
 

 

Get Involved Today!

We need you to help gather support. Lots of it! SB 564 cannot pass without a strong show of support from the field. When a bill is considered by the legislature, a list of supporters and opponents is included. We need to demonstrate statewide support for school health centers by sending in as many support letters as possible!

These resources are here to help you get involved:

•  SB 564: Step By Step Action Guide - how to gather support for SB 564

•  SB 564 fact sheet

•  SB 564 sample letter of support

 
 


If you have been active in CSHC's advocacy efforts previously, welcome back for what will be one of our biggest victories at the state level. And if you're new, welcome aboard, this is a great time to join the school health centers movement to put health care where the kids are.

Questions or comments? Please contact:

Kristin Curran, Deputy Director
(510) 268-1160
kcurran@schoolhealthcenters.org

 

  
  To learn more about CSHC's policy agenda, please click here.  
 

 

  
     
 

 
     
 

 

 

  
 
660 13th St, Ste 202 Oakland, CA 94612 • P 510.268.1260 • F 510.268.1318