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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Children's Aid Society, 2012
School Based Health Centers (SBHC) are considered by experts as one of the most effective and efficient ways to provide preventive health care to children. Few programs are as successful in delivering health care to children at no cost to the patient, and where they are: in school. For many underserved children, The Children's Aid Society's…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Health Promotion, School Health Services, Child Health
Children's Aid Society, 2007
This annual report illustrates the breadth and scope of the Children's Aid community schools strategy developed to serve as a tool in overcoming the challenges to education presented by immigration and poverty. The report includes a brief history of the organization and its commitment to the education of New York City children, a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Urban Schools, Poverty, Barriers
Lawler, Kate; Costello, Anne Marie – Childrens Aid Society, 2005
In 1998, Governor Pataki and New York legislators created one of the country's most innovative programs for enrolling uninsured children and teens in public health insurance. Launched in 2000, the facilitated enrollment program uses community-based organizations and health plans to find and enroll "hard-to-reach" New Yorkers who have historically…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Public Health, Health Insurance, Access to Health Care