Central Valley Rural Education and Health Alliance (REHA) (Historical)

The Central Valley Rural Education and Health Alliance (REHA) brought together rural elementary school educators, district and county administrators, and school-based health professionals to strengthen and expand collaborative approaches to improve student education and health outcomes. The children and families that lived, worked, and went to school in California’s rural Central Valley experienced some of the state’s worst education and health outcomes and some of the nation’s most entrenched poverty. Improving these outcomes, especially for young children, was a regional priority. REHA specifically focused on ways that schools and school-based health centers could collaborate to promote academic success. As a cross-sector effort, REHA worked with partners from Parlier Unified School District, Tulare City School District, the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, and the California School-Based Health Alliance to use evidence, promising approaches, and data to address school readiness, chronic absence, school culture and climate, and student health and behavioral interventions.