Special thanks to The St. Louis American for highlighting our school-based health center at Jennings High School in the article “SPOT-on: Student health clinic at Jennings High School.” We believe this model has the chance to transform the health of wellbeing of Jennings students and would love to see the model sustained and expanded to other districts. This recommendation was supported by the Ferguson Commission and For the Sake of All.
We want to give special thanks to our partners in this endeavor—the Jennings School District led by Tiffany Anderson and the St. Louis County Children’s Services Fund led by Connie Cunningham.
The County Children’s services fund in their Discovery grant process allowed us to engage with the school, parents, faculty, staff and other community partners to identify specific needs in the high school. Once those needs were identified and the community engaged we were able to address these needs through the implementation of a comprehensive school-based health center.
Katie Plax, MD
Medical Director of the SPOT
Jennings