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The Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative came together for a two-day virtual meeting May 18-19. The meeting highlighted White House and Congressional efforts to strengthen the school Medicaid program — in part to address the growing mental health crisis affecting youth.

Healthy Schools Campaign is launching #SchoolMedicaidMatters, an online campaign running May 9-13 to help states expand Medicaid-funded school health services. New resources are available to share.

Healthy Schools Campaign is excited to announce the 12th convening of the Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative, featuring Katherine Neas, U.S. Department of Education deputy assistant secretary, and other guest speakers.

Healthy Schools Campaign has developed an interactive map on school Medicaid eligibility, billing and providers, and published a new report that can enable policymakers, school districts, advocates and others to better understand their state school Medicaid program, including its strengths and opportunities for improvement.

The 11th convening of the Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative featured Dora Hughes, of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, on Addressing Health Equity in the Return to In-Person Learning.

Healthy Schools Campaign has published two new guidance documents that highlight how state education agencies and school districts can use COVID-relief funding to align spending with key health priorities.

The 10th convening of the Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative featured Bechara Choucair, White House Vaccinations Coordinator, and Mayra Alvarez, president of The Children’s Partnership and member of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

More than 100 individuals attended the December 2020 Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative meeting, including representatives from 18 states, three federal agencies and more than a dozen national partner organizations.

South Carolina is a very rural state with significant health care deserts; for example, some counties have no pediatricians. This creates barriers to care and results in poor health care outcomes and significant health disparities.

In 2016, with support from Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America’s Health, the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services launched HSPF out of the growing recognition of the connection between health and learning. The Ohio team's progress in building capacity, strengthening cross-agency relationships, and launching its statewide initiative to align health outcomes with academic success through the development of a School-Based Health Care Support Toolkit.