Maine Assembly on School-Based Health Care

Advocacy, Promotion, Support and Sustainability of School-Based Health Centers

With a 5 to 4 vote the MSAD #60 School Board voted to expand health services in the Noble Health Center to include Mental and Reproductive Health services. An addendum was added at the last second to not allow the distribution of emergency contraception.
Submitted by:
Cindy Dolben, RN
School Health Center Coordinator
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Two Calais High Students Present Workshop at The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) Annual Conference  
 Sean Cavanaugh and Jesse Clark, both long-time members of the Calais Middle/High School Blue Devil Health Center’s Teen Advocacy Group (the TAG Team), recently attended the National Assembly of School-Based Health Center’s annual convention as presenters of a workshop titled [...]

SBHC’s address health problems that can block success in school or lead to serious problems as adults.   Numerous evaluation studies of school-based health centers, including an in-depth evaluation of  Maine’s centers by the Muskie School of Public Service (2004),  reveal high levels of satisfaction with the services on the part of students, parents and school [...]