Bernalillo County will soon have two mobile School-Based Health Centers serving students and community members.
This initiative — approved by the Bernalillo County Commission — will launch in September and provide primary, preventative and behavioral health care to pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade students, student families, school faculty and local community members.
Two mobile clinics will rotate between four Albuquerque Public Schools in each of the four quadrants of the district as well as at two charter schools and community centers year-round. The exact locations have not been determined.
According to a Bernalillo County news release, these services will be culturally and linguistically appropriate, trauma-informed and delivered by qualified professionals. The county expects this initiative to reduce disciplinary issues, risk behaviors and drop-out rates by improving physical and mental health, self-efficacy and coping skills.
The Behavioral Health Initiative will fund the mobile centers with $1.5 million in recurring funding generated by the behavioral health gross receipts tax, according to the news release. That funding is expected to accumulate to almost $30 million in fiscal year 2025.