Available at Lowell High School & Stoklosa Middle School
Lowell Community Health Center’s School-Based Health Centers promote academic achievement through access to medical and behavioral health services within the school setting.
Lowell Community Health Center recognizes that meeting the students’ physical and mental health needs:
- increases their readiness for learning,
- prevents them from missing time in class, and parents missed work days,
- and enhances opportunities for lifetime success.
The Lowell High and Stoklosa Middle School-Based Health Centers are located within the schools to provide easy, immediate access to quality health care.
Beyond a focus on primary health care, the School-Based Health Centers aim to meet children and adolescent’s social and emotional needs to help them reach their individual potential.
School-Based Health Centers are open when school is open.
If your child gets sick and the School-Based Health Center is closed, you can call Lowell Community Health Center at 978.937.9700.
Services Include:
- Physical exams
- Eyecare
- Immunizations
- Age-appropriate health screenings
- Preventative education and counseling
- Referrals to specialty services
- Sick visits
- Management of acute and chronic problems
- Contraceptive counseling, condoms, birth control pills, contraceptive injections, and emergency contraception*
- Behavioral health services include:
- Learning how to express and cope with feelings
- Building healthy relationships with others
• Supporting positive identity development
• Increasing school engagement
• Building positive community connections
• Providing a safe space for youth to process
• Addressing substance use
• Navigating change and loss
• Supporting LGBTQIA+ students - Medication management
*Massachusetts law allows minors to consent to contraceptive and STI services. This means that your student may access these services without parental consent and knowledge.
The Lowell Community Health Center’s School-Based Health Centers are supported through funding from the MA Department of Public Health Resources and Services Administration.
