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Title: Strengthening Health Care for Adolescents (Information Resource)

Description: Everyone agrees that by working together, schools, homes, and communities are better positioned to minimize problems and maximize results. Research shows that healthy students do better at school, (e.g., higher rates of attendance, higher achievement scores). A key partner in keeping students healthy is the medical community. The focus on health care reform has provided two key documents you might want to share in strengthening your partnership with health providers.

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/strengthening.pdf  2pp; 20kb