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Welcome to the website of the Colorado Association
for School-Based Health Care (CASBHC). CASBHC was established in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) membership
organization. We are affiliated with the National Assembly on
School-Based Health Care in Washington, D.C.
Our Vision
Colorado’s children will have quality, integrated school
health services that improve health status, optimize academic
achievement, and enhance well-being.
Our Mission
Keeping children healthy, in school, and ready to learn.
Our Core Values
We believe that every child should receive the care necessary
to optimize health and well-being.
We believe that preventive and primary health care should be
available where children are, in school.
We believe that good health is essential for student success
and that delivering health care in schools will improve academic
achievement.
We believe that school-based health centers provide children
with the tools they need to make healthy choices now and in the
future.
We believe that children will not care what we know until
they know that we care.
Why deliver health care in schools?
Healthy kids learn better!
School-age children and adolescents use less preventive health services
than any other age group.
Many children and teens experience serious health problems that inhibit
their learning ability such as:
- acute illness and injury
- chronic disease such as asthma
- violence, substance abuse, depression
- severe dental pain
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