This guide highlights the ways that school needs assessments required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) can be a valuable tool in identifying, understanding and addressing health conditions that contribute to poor academic performance. It provides child advocates, community leaders, school personnel and other key stakeholder groups with the information that they need to convince their state and local education leaders to make health and wellness a significant component of the needs assessment and school improvement process.

Child Trends partnered with the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and EMT Associates, Inc. to review relevant state statutes and regulations enacted as of September 2017 and analyze their alignment with the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model of healthy schools.

Published as part of ASTHO's Public Health and Schools Toolkit, this issue brief examines the interplay of federal laws related to privacy and disclosure of student health information, and various approaches for obtaining student health information.

This brief for school superintendents provides an overview of how school districts can leverage Medicaid to support children's educational and health outcomes.

This Primer provides an overview of the pertinent federal and state confidentiality laws when health care is provided on school sites and addresses a few frequently asked questions regarding sharing information.

This policy update highlights actions state education decision-makers can take to address the health-related causes of chronic absence.

This brief provides an overview of the Massachusetts Medicaid state plan amendment (SPA) approved in 2017 by CMS that enables schools to bill for Medicaid services provided to all Medicaid-enrolled students.

This resource is meant to help those who are particularly interested in leveraging ESSA to support efforts to address chronic absenteeism.