There is nothing more basic to a child's ability to succeed in school and life than good health.
Yet physical and emotional problems often make learning impossible. The cost to the future of
these children—and to the future of our state —is incalculable. Preventing this waste of
potentially productive lives requires ongoing action on a variety of fronts, including the
continuing expansion of preventative health care for the lower income Louisianans whose
children are at highest risk.






















Even when families have access to health insurance coverage, preventative care or timely
care for acute illness is not always easy to achieve. Parents often can't afford time off from
work to take a sick child to a doctor. Louisiana suffers from an uneven distribution of
physicians and other health professionals throughout the state. Poor transportation services
in many areas and problems in navigating the health care system itself only add to the
problem.
About School-Based Health Centers in Louisiana