Ohio School-Based Health Alliance
Reem Aly, Executive Director
Mental Health Equity
The Ohio School-Based Health Alliance (“Ohio Alliance”) is the only nonpartisan, statewide organization created to advance and support the sustainability and expansion of school-based health care. Their mission is to improve access to comprehensive, integrated health services through school-based health care to advance equity and improve health and education outcomes for students, their families, and communities.
Year Founded: 2002, relaunched statewide in 2021
The Ohio Alliance approaches its work through:
- Capacity-building: Developing and sustaining regional and statewide school-based health care networks, and providing guidance, key resources, and technical assistance to start, support, and sustain school-based health centers and other innovative school-based health care partnerships.
- Policy transformation: Building local and statewide policy awareness and support for school-based health care, expanding and accelerating opportunities for the establishment of comprehensive, integrated, high quality, sustainable school-based health centers and innovative school-based health partnerships
- Data tracking and evaluation: Conducting comprehensive assessments of school-based health centers and other school-based health care partnerships to inform policy and evaluate impact.
The Ohio Alliance was borne out of the Ohio School Based Health Care Association (OSBHCA). OSBHCA was founded in 2002 when organizations in Ohio independently investing in school-based health centers identified a need for those funding, starting up, and sustaining school-based health care to align on best practices and collaboratively advocate at the state level for funding and support. After a period of regionalized focus, OSBHCA relaunched statewide as the Ohio Alliance in 2021. In August of 2022, the organization gained significant momentum by hiring its first ever, full time Executive Director.
Reem Aly
Executive Director
