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1986
Second national tally finds 74.

RWJF launches the School-Based Adolescent Health Care Program - 24 new centers funded.

Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, and Oregon fund SBHCs..
 
1989
Health professional groups endorse SBHCs.
 
1990
Federal government says SBHCs can help achieve nation's Year 2000 health goals.
 
1991
Bush Administration recommends SBHCs in elementary schools nationwide.
 
1993
Delaware Governor Tom Carper pledges an SBHC in every public high school that wants one.

$3 billion for school health, including SBHCs, included in Clinton Administration health reform plan.

National survey finds 300 SBHCs nationwide.

New York SBHCs start first state association.

RWJF funds 9 states to develop SBHC policies and open 44 new centers - Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
 
1994
"Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities" is born - 1st federal SBHC program.

National health reform plan dies.
 
1995
National Assembly for School-Based Health Care convenes.
 



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