Education Plus Health

School based Health centerseducation-plus, Inc. Operates 12 school Health centers for more than 7,000 students in philadelphia public, charter, and private schools, using a hybrid model of school nursing and primary care delivered by a certified registered nurse practitioner, a certified school nurse, and a licensed practical nurse. The center blends the model of a convenient care clinic for families with the medical home model to serve as primary care physician. The clinical team is supported by a community Health worker who works with students and families to provide Health Education and support addressing the social determinants of Health that affect Health and academic outcomes, and a behavioral Health counselor.

After-school and community-based post secondary services:after-school and summer enrichment programs in two schools work collaboratively to help students achieve better Health and academic outcomes. Through a 21st century after-school and summer program, the organization collaborates with the host schools to offer a college preparation, creative writing, and stem program for at-risk middle and high school students. The after-school program works to integrate with the school-based Health center to build a total culture of Health in the schools. The program consistently finds better school attendance and academic improvements among youth that participate in the after-school program. The organization continued to operate the room2breathe asthma home visiting program in collaboration with the philadelphia department of public Health and two pediatric practices, temple faculty physicians and st. christopher's. A team of four community Health workers serve nearly 200 children each year with home-based Education and trigger reduction services to improve ashma outcomes, virtual as needed due to the pandemic. Also through a collaboration with partners i-lead and harcum college, the organization establishes satellite or blended learning sites as extensions of high schools thereby ensuring that college is accessible, negotiating reduced college tuition costs to just above what low income students can leverage in financial aid grants ensuring college is affordable. Our model reaches out to over 50 low income students per year that are expected to graduate in 2.5 to 3 years with 62 credits and with a retention rate of 91%, with 2 high school partners, and 3 college partners.