Using School-Based Health Clinics to Provide Information and Services to Teens

This panel highlighted how critical school-based health clinics are in ensuring teens have access to important reproductive health services and information to help them make informed, healthy decisions. Panelists discussed successful public school health clinics that serve as models across the country.

Moderator:

  • Lorraine Tiezzi, MS, Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Center for Community Health and Education, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Speakers:

  • Dorothy Mann, Executive Director, Family Planning Council, Philadelphia, PA (View Summit presentation)
  • Jocelyn Martinez, Director, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, Colorado Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention
  • Mike Roque, Director, Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships, Office of the Denver Mayor Hickenlooper
  • Julia Patterson, Chair, King County Council, Washington (View Summit presentation)
  • Roger Platt, MD, Assistant Commissioner, Office of School Health, New York City, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Department of Education (View Summit presentation)
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