Health and Community Services
Health and its relationship to school success is important. Region V provides supplemental health services to assist families in the health needs of their children. In addition, health education is made available to staff, students and parents to help remediate health problems which interfere with learning. Once a year, Region V contracts with a mobile dental clinic to operate and provide dental services to selected migrant students based on the immediate degree of need.
- Region V provides supplemental health services to those migrant students with identified medical/dental needs.
- Region V administered four USC Mobile Dental Clinics to 400 migrant students in Kern County during the past year
- Region V arranged for supplemental health funding for medical, dental, vision and prescription services.
- Migrant staff assisted migrant families in enrolling in state health plans (e.g. Healthy Start).
- Region V did referrals for migrant children to low cost and/or free medical services in the county/state.
- Download the HOTLINE Referral form here.