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Causes: Community Health Systems, Education, Health, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: The mission of Rochester Students’ Health Services is to promote self-sufficiency in managing personal health among RSHS learners by: ~Providing health education ~Providing limited health services at RSHS ~Helping learners identify and access sources for health insurance and primary health care ~Collaborating with other health care and service providers in the community to assist with coordination of care
Target demographics: alternative middle and high school students at risk of academic failure and adult refugees and immigrants seeking their GED
Direct beneficiaries per year: 658 students and adult learners
Geographic areas served: the Rochester Alternative Learning Center and Hawthorne Education Center, located in the Rochester Public School District
Programs: free health care to reduce barriers to access and promote academic success by not missing school.