The Hancock County Board of Schooling obtained an replace Monday on the operations of two school-based well being facilities within the county, with some members indicating the opportunity of increasing this system sooner or later.
Lisa Mowry, chief govt officer of CHANGE, Inc. was available to supply the board with the report. CHANGE at the moment operates well being facilities at Weirton Elementary College and on the campus of Weir Excessive and Weir Center faculties.
“For the previous six years, now we have steadily grown,” Mowry reported.
The college-based well being facilities fall underneath the auspices of CHANGE’s household medical care applications, with the company working 13 such facilities within the Tri-State Space.
Within the Hancock County Faculties system, CHANGE started on the Weirton Elementary College, offering service to 462 college students in 2017. The Weir Complicated College-Based mostly Well being Middle opened in 2019, at which period a complete of 901 college students have been offered care, with 685 at Weirton Elementary and 216 on the Weir campus.
These numbers have elevated over time, with Mowry indicating a complete of 1,097 college students served in 2020, 1,354 in 2021 and, to this point in 2022, there have been 917 college students served with 436 at Weirton Elementary and 481 on the Weir campus.
Board member Larry Shaw requested whether or not CHANGE receives any federal funds, and whether or not it requires them to comply with any particular mandates from the federal authorities. Mowry famous some federal funds help choose applications, with a lot of their providers funded by grants and foundations, and most of their mandated actions revolving across the submitting of yearly experiences and audits.
Board Vice President Ed Fields requested about the opportunity of increasing the school-based well being middle program to different faculties in Hancock County, saying he is aware of there beforehand had been some funding out there.
“I feel that funding has gone away,” he stated.
Mowry famous a few of these funds had been offered via the CARES Act and have been now not out there, and funding which is on the market is not going to permit for building of recent amenities.
“We will furnish the area and we are able to function the area,” she stated.
Mowry famous, along with Hancock County, CHANGE additionally operates school-based well being facilities in Brooke and Jefferson counties.
