Year

What event took place?

• First three SBHCs open in Dallas, TX and St. Paul, MN.

• New York legislature approves first state-funded grant program for SBHCs.

• Replication begins. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds SBHCs in Commerce City, CO, Posen-Robins, IL, Houston, TX, Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, New York City, NY and New Haven, CT.

• SBHCs draw public controversy.

• First national tally taken of SBHCs by Center for Population Options - 33 counted.

• 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.
  
  

• Health professional groups endorse SBHCs.

• Federal government says SBHCs can help achieve nation's Year 2000 health goals.

• Bush Administration recommends SBHCs in elementary schools nationwide.

• 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.

• "Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities" is born - 1st federal SBHC program.

• National health reform plan dies.

• National Assembly for School-Based Health Care convenes.

• Kellogg Foundation funds 9 SBHCs in Detroit; throws support to NASBHC.
  
  
• 31 states plus D.C. make grants to SBHCs.
  
  
• C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General, "In my professional lifetime the health of every group of American society has improved except for teenagers. Isn't school the best place for a primary health care facility?"
  
  
• SBHCs total 900.

• Arizona uses tobacco tax money to raise number of SBHCs from 33 to 85.

• More state associations form in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and West Virginia.

• SBHCs in 22 states have contracts with managed care plans.
  
  
• SBHCs have spread to elementary schools. One-third of all centers serve younger children.

• Louisiana and Massachusetts fund SBHCs with tobacco settlement dollars.
  
  
• SBHCs are open in 28 of 29 public high schools in Delaware.
  
  
• SBHCs in 45 states total nearly 1,400.