Funding Interests
School-Aged Children's Healthcare
In 1998, when the Health Foundation launched the School-Aged Children’s Healthcare focus area, an estimated 10 million U.S. children lacked health insurance. Thanks to the successful implementation and expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) that number fell to 6.7 million in 2007. Even with the reduced number of children without health insurance, there are still millions of children and families that face multiple barriers to accessing care and do not receive basic preventive care. The Greater Cincinnati communities recognize that these unmet healthcare needs are preventing children from attending school and affecting their ability to learn.
To answer these needs, the Health Foundation chose School-Aged Children’s Healthcare as one of its focus areas, which concentrates on delivering healthcare to children in school. With community support, schools are beginning to offer services to address the health needs of children. In addition to primary care services, schools can offer early behavioral and mental health interventions and referrals. When healthcare is delivered in school, students spend more time in class and the educational and financial impacts unhealthy children have on schools are reduced.
Strategies
School-Aged Children's Healthcare has one strategy that is being funded:
The Foundation has also funded grants in Mental and Behavioral Health strategy, that is no longer funded.
Logic Models
Each focus area has a logic model for each strategy, to view the severe mental illness logic models, click here.