b'School Health Programs2019 Program of the Year School Health Services The School Health Program is comprised of two grantThis program received recognition for providing funded programs, which together offers preventive,comprehensive, coordinated on-site health services primary care as well as mental health services toto children in 12 Title 1 Miami-Dade County Public children in 75 schools in the Miami Dade CountySchools . The majority of these students receive free/district .Services are brought in person or viareduced lunch, and many come from families that are telehealth technology by nurses, nurse practitioners,financially disadvantaged, uninsured or underinsured, mental health professionals, social workers, andand often without access to quality health care . medical provider physicians to more than 64, 000Staffed by nurses, social workers and mental health students in Miami-Dade County public schools . At noprofessionals, TCT School Health Program at Nicklaus cost, vaccines for children who do not have medicaloffers mandated screenings, management of insurance or who are insured through Medicaid arehealth conditions, health promotion, mental health served . In 2019, the school health nurses administeredassessments and treatment, and referrals to community 470 vaccines, had over 26,000 student encounters,resources . The goal: to impact the lives of students and offered over 8,000 educational classes. With anand families through the support of higher academic overarching aim to improve health outcomes for theachievement, and a reduction of social determinants student population, nurses ensured that childrenof health by early detection of risk factors, stay at without a pediatrician received the anticipatorythe forefront of both programs achieving community guidance, nutritional education, as well as chronicoutreach and enhancing care .disease management they needed to thrive and learn . Nursing Annual Report 2018 - 2019 23'