School-Based Health Centers
ASK YOURSELF: Does your school have a School-Based Health Center (SBHC)? Do they provide a permission form allowing them to provide services? What services will they provide? What medical rights are they asking you to delegate to them? Will they give your child medications or vaccines without contacting you each time? Do you want to be present when they provide services?
Stand for Health Freedom School-Based Health Centers – educational materials for parents covering what these centers are and how to keep your parental rights with regard to your children’s medical care. “A federal agenda seeks to rapidly expand the use of School-based Health Centers – access to your children without your knowledge – throughout America. This agenda has legs because government agencies are funneling millions of grant dollars for school-based health services into states across the U.S.”
Notice of Non-Consent – Parents can choose not to consent to school-based health centers. This form can be adapted it to your family. For example, if you wish to authorize any specific healthcare beyond first aid and emergency treatment, add that information in numbers (2) and (5) of the sample document. (from Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice)
School-Based Health Alliance – national organization pushing for health equity through merging of schools and healthcare.
Pennsylvania School-Based Health Alliance – organization promoting SBHC in Pennsylvania, includes a map showing current schools that have adopted this model (Philadelphia, York, Lancaster).
“In-school medical providers, including licensed nurse practitioners, are able “to provide acute and preventive care, render diagnoses and write prescriptions. It is like having an urgent care right in the school. The services range from health screenings, delivering sick and injury care, preventive well-child care and sports physicals, administering flu shots and vaccines, providing confidential reproductive health care for teens, conducting mental health and substance screenings and providing treatment, as well as dental care, vision, and more.”
Some recent articles on the topic…
Pennsylvania officials say school-based health centers are needed to bridge equity gaps – “Pennsylvania health leaders say this model of care is crucial in expanding access to health services and improving health equity in communities, especially among underserved youth. State Acting Secretary of Health Dr. Denise Johnson said she’d like to see a center in every school, to the benefit of even more students.”
‘So Many Pitfalls’: Feds Push School-Based Health Centers as Critics Sound Alarm Over Lack of Parental Consent – Supporters of school-based health centers tout improved access to healthcare for the underserved — but critics say rapidly expanding the centers could allow children to get vaccines and mental health counseling without parental consent.
Billionaires Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott Invest $23 Million to Promote School-Based Health Centers – The billionaires’ investment in the School-Based Health Alliance, the leading national nonprofit that promotes the expansion of school-based health centers, substantially increases the alliance’s revenue, which was less than $4 million in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available.
WHO Plans More ‘Health Promoting Schools’ — Critics Say More Vaccines, Less Parental Control Are Fueling the Plan – There is a global push to circumvent parents. The WHO is expanding its “Making Every School a Health Promoting School” initiative. Critics say the move is an attempt to bypass parental consent and expand vaccination, data collection and surveillance.