School Partnerships: Meeting Kids Where They Are
Learn more about the vital role school partnerships play in children’s health and well-being.
Children spend more than half their waking hours in school, making teachers and school staff a vital part of their care networks. Partnerships between children’s hospitals and schools provide an important bridge to identify issues and address needs.
Healthy kids do better in school, and academic success leads to lifelong health benefits.
From vaccines to physical exams to behavioral health, learn how children's hospitals are working with schools to improve the health and well-being of children.
About Children's Hospital Association
Children’s Hospital Association is the national voice of more than 200 children’s hospitals, advancing child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care.
Community partnerships
10 Effective Ways to Engage With Schools
Children’s hospitals have expanded their partnerships with schools to support student health and academic success.
A Guide to Enhancing School Partnerships
A new framework helps children’s hospitals align and integrate their school efforts for sustainable success.
15 Practical Lessons for Stronger Community Collaborations
Learn best practices revealed by an analysis of children’s hospitals using implementation science.
Well-Being
Bridging the Education Gap for Chronically Ill Children
Collaboration among families, school leaders, and medical teams provides a blueprint to helping patient populations thrive educationally.
Creating Healthy School Environments
A children’s hospital collaborates with schools to ensure students have safe places to learn.
Using School Attendance Data to Improve Health Outcomes
A novel collaborative enables a children’s hospital to address chronic absenteeism and provide families support around underlying medical and social causes.
Access to care
2 Vans, 300 Schools, 7,000 Vaccines
Advocate Children’s Hospital delivers health care on the go to students.
An Indispensable Program for 100,000 Students
A school-based hospital program grew from a few employees to 100 and offers care for nearly every aspect of children’s health.
A Whole-Person Approach to Care at School
Atrium Health Levine Children's has seen decreased emergency department use and shorter waiting times for behavioral health care.
Telehealth
Opening the Door to Better Health Care Access
A convenient portal streamlines access to health services for school partners.
School-Based Health Expands to Meet Growing Needs
A large network of school-based nurses and telehealth technology helps mitigate respiratory illnesses, expand access to care, and catch children up on essential care neglected during the pandemic.
School-Based Telehealth Improves Outcomes and Equity
For low-income schools in North Carolina, a health system’s telehealth services are much more than a convenience.
Behavioral health
Making Behavioral Health a Community Endeavor
A preventive mental health program enlists community collaboration to execute interventions.
Prevention Through Intervention: A School-Based Behavioral Health Program
A system of behavioral health centers increases access and intervention for students in more than 280 New York schools.
Treating the Effects of Violence
A children’s hospital brings behavioral health care into schools to address widespread violence in its community.
Supporting school nurses
Guiding the Next Generation of School Nurses
A program leverages the skill and expertise of veteran nurses to support those new to the school health environment.
Giving Rural School Nurses an Expert Voice
A video series addresses the isolation and resource constraints faced by rural school nurses.
Sharing Data With School Nurses
Children’s Hospital of Orange County brings EMR access to schools to improve outcomes for its patients.
