Schools may already provide health services.
Schools are a trustworthy or safe place for children.
School staff may have eligible children. Three hundred people attended the kickoff in Montgomery and the other sites were also well attended. The State also distributed one million applications to schools and received 23,837 in return, with at least two children per application. Those that were not accepted got referred to either Medicaid or the Alabama Child Care Foundation. When asked on the bottom of the application where they learned about CHIP, most parents' response was the school system.