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A Successful Collaboration Between an Urban School District, a Health System, and a Public Health Department to Address COVID-19 While Returning Children to the Classroom

Auger, K.A., Hall, M., Bunte, S., Mussman, G., Amin, M., Sprigg, S., Porter, L., Porter, R., Monsour, M., Burkhardt, M.C., Kahn, R.S.

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Case Study

Organizational Change/ Development
Social and Community Context
Tools Included
Outside U.S.
ACCESS RESOURCE
Network of people

Partnerships and Collaboration

A large school district in Cincinnati partnered with their local health department and children’s hospital to develop mitigation procedures as children returned to school. These mitigation procedures successfully limited school-based spread of COVID-19 by combining best practices in rapid testing, contact tracing, and early isolation. Procedures were regularly revisited and updated in an iterative process to respond to new information and circumstances.

Resource Details

Outcomes of Interest

Partnership Building

Priority Population(s)

School Staff, Youth and Young Adults

Setting(s) of Implementation

School

Geographic Area of Implementation

Urban

Implementation Period

2020-2021