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Recorded presentation

MaryAnn Phillips, MPH¹, Bernette Sherman, MPA¹, Karen Minyard, PHD², and James Emshoff, PhD³. (1) Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia State University, 14 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-651-1643, mphillips2@gsu.edu, (2) Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, 14 Marietta Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, (3) Psychology Department, Georgia State University, 1122 Urban Life, Atlanta, GA 30303

From 2001 to 2004, the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, a cooperative effort of 20 family, private, and community foundations and the Georgia Department of Community Health, provided 13 grants to improve the physical and mental health of low-income and medically underserved school-aged children through school health programs. Grantees were evaluated retrospectively to assess impact of the programs on health services delivery, quality and access as well as to measure the level of community collaboration within the projects and the sustainability of the projects after the end of grant funding. It was found that an estimated 166,052 basic health services were provided over the three-year grant period, including 23,854 health screenings, 74,502 clinical visits, and 14, 883 doses of medication. A variety of counseling and educational services were also provided. Community collaboration among grantees was high, with collaborative relationships reported with health care providers, various school officials, parents, youth service organizations, local businesses and public officials. Eight grantees reported that they were able to sustain at least some services following the end of the grant, with six reporting that they sustained the increases in health care quality achieved with grant funds.

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