The Broad Acres clinic is one of 1,500 school-based health centers nationwide that bring a wide range of medical, nutritional, and mental-health care to millions of students and their families. The centers provide an important safety net for children and adolescents--particularly the more than 10 million today who lack health insurance, according to the Washington-based Center for Health and Health Care in Schools. The school, though located in Maryland's Montgomery County, a wealthy suburb of the nation's capital packed with medical specialists, high-tech hospitals, and busy doctors' practices, is at the heart of an unofficial village of squat, brick apartment buildings isolated from the world around it by class, language, and culture. In this article, the author further describes the necessity of Broad Acres clinic in providing health care services particularly among sick or troubled children in high poverty environments.