PORTLAND, Maine – This week, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced that the City of Portland’s school-based health center (SBHC) at Portland High School was selected to receive a $225,000 capital improvement grant. The grant will fund significant improvements for the school-based health center tripling the size of the clinic to one thousand five hundred square feet. The renovations will provide a centralized location for the variety of services offered at the health clinic including preventative and primary health care, mental health and substance abuse services, reproductive health care and oral health care. Currently, half of all Portland High School students access the health center during the school year.
“School-based health centers are leading the way in redefining health care for kids and teens and today’s grant announcement will dramatically improve the quality of services we are able to provide to Portland High
