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Healthy People 2020 includes objectives specific to educational achievement and on-time graduation signaling the significance of high school graduation to adult health. APHA Policy #20101 speaks to graduation as a public health priority to eliminate health inequities. The APHA Center for School, Health and Education was established in 2010 to provide a focal point for the synergy between education and health for the K-12 population. School-based health centers have demonstrated their potential to favorably impact educational achievement. The Center champions them as a strategy to promote public health and educational success particularly in communities where inequities are most pronounced.

Session Objectives: Participants will be able to explain the relationship between health and educational success for school-age youth. Participants will be able to discuss the capabilities of school-based health centers to impact educationally related health disparities. Participants will be able to list the ways in which school-based health centers and public health can respond to HP2020.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)