Promise Healthcare Receives a State Grant to Establish a School-Based Health Center in Champaign

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Parents in Champaign, Ill., will soon be able to take their kids to the school district's new health center any day of the week.

The Illinois Department of Public Health has awarded Promise Healthcare a $50,000 grant to plan a school-based health center that will provide medical, behavioral, and dental services to students and their families, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, the News-Gazette reports.

"All the school districts have to work with a lot kids and families who may have developed a lot challenges during the pandemic," Promise Healthcare VP Lisa Kilawee says.

"Maybe they didn't have great access to primary health care services or behavioral health and now there's all this unmet need."

Kilawee says school-based health centers are usually on or near school campuses because that makes it easier for parents to get their kids needed services.

"Especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana, you have to take whole day or half day you know, to get your kids needed services, to get your kids needed services, to prevent mild illnesses and treat mild illnesses, to help ensure they miss fewer school days," she says.

The location of the new health center has not been decided, but Kilawee says planning committees are looking at

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