Contraceptive Access Through School-Based Health Centers: Perceptions of Rural and Suburban Young People.

Purpose: School-based health centers (SBHCs) have traditionally been concentrated in urban centers but have increasingly moved to rural and suburban settings. Adolescents living outside urban centers continue to experience barriers accessing contraceptives and reproductive health care. SBHCs are well positioned to reduce these barriers since they often offer convenient, in-school reproductive health care services.

The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado.

Purpose: To examine the association between the introduction of a school-based health center (SBHC) and high school graduation rates.

Methods: We use school-level longitudinal data from Colorado that combines data on the opening of SBHCs in high schools with 4-year high school graduation rates overall and by gender between 2000 and 2018. The analytic sample consists of high schools without an SBHC in 2000 (n = 132).