Services and support programs, therefore, serve clients best when they are locally planned, operated, and evaluated with broad public and private community involvement. Communities can choose to provide services in schools or in community centers outside of the school. Those services should be available and accessible to all in a variety of settings. The table below provides a sample of service providers PTAs can include in the planning process. Integrated Services should be developed, implemented, and evaluated by individual communities.
Community needs and attitudes vary, and no single model is suggested.
For more than one hundred years, community agencies have been bringing services into schools to augment whatever the educational system could provide to maintain health standards within the school. Over the years the supply of services within schools has been turned on and off. In periods of poverty, unrest, and disadvantage, service provision in schools has risen. The mode of delivery of school health services has reflected the roller coaster of the political situation compounded by the state of the art of medical technology. A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families.