Health screening
Regular vision, hearing, dental, growth, and developmental checks on campus — catching problems early and referring children for care before small issues become serious.
For many under-resourced families, school is the most consistent place a child can be screened, supported, and connected to care. SHA Vision Foundation is launching its Campus Health Initiative to bring health screening, mental-health support, nutrition education, chronic-disease management, and family health navigation to the children who need it most — under-resourced children across West Covina, including South Hills Academy students on financial aid — at no cost to families.
We believe a child's health should never be a barrier to their education — and their family's income should never be a barrier to their health.
SHA Vision Foundation exists to put preventive, whole-child health care within reach of the under-resourced children it serves. Based on the South Hills Academy campus, the Initiative is designed to connect each child — and their household — to screening, ongoing care, food, and the support they need to thrive.
The children who most need care are the ones least likely to receive it. We design for them first.
Physical, mental, and nutritional health are inseparable. We treat them as one continuum of care.
A healthy child needs a supported household. We extend care beyond the student to the home.
Undiagnosed vision or hearing problems, untreated dental issues, unmanaged asthma or diabetes, food insecurity, and unaddressed mental-health needs can hold a child back academically — and these gaps fall hardest on low-income families who lack a regular doctor, paid time off, or insurance that covers preventive care.
When care depends on a parent's resources, the children who need it most are the ones who go without.
Families in our community face real barriers to keeping children healthy: clinics that are far away or fully booked, services that require taking unpaid time off, language and paperwork hurdles, and the simple cost of a visit. The result is that preventable problems go unaddressed until they become crises — and a child's learning, attendance, and confidence pay the price.
By delivering care on campus, at no cost, during the hours children are already present, we remove every one of those barriers at once. Funding this work means a child's health no longer waits for a family to find the time, money, or transport they may not have.
SHA Vision Foundation is a charity serving under-resourced children across West Covina; South Hills Academy is simply the campus where the Initiative is based. The program reaches two groups who share one barrier — cost — and we are explicit about exactly who they are.
Through on-campus screenings and referrals open to the surrounding community, the Initiative extends screening, counseling, nutrition, and chronic-care support to under-resourced neighborhood children who would otherwise go without — regardless of whether they attend South Hills Academy.
A meaningful share of South Hills Academy students attend on financial aid or sibling discounts. Their families often work multiple jobs and lack a regular doctor, paid time off, or insurance that covers preventive care. These children can be reached during the school day, at no cost.
This is the full model SHA Vision Foundation is building — an integrated continuum of care rather than disconnected appointments. Services are introduced in phases as funding and appropriately licensed staffing allow, so that together they catch problems early and keep children healthy enough to learn.
Regular vision, hearing, dental, growth, and developmental checks on campus — catching problems early and referring children for care before small issues become serious.
School-based counseling, social-emotional learning, and a calm, confidential place to be heard — building resilience and reducing the stigma around asking for help.
Healthy meals, hands-on food literacy, and family cooking sessions that make nutritious eating affordable and normal — fueling the focus that learning requires.
Planned: as the Initiative adds licensed clinical capacity, day-to-day support for asthma, diabetes, allergies, and other ongoing conditions — action plans and staff training so children stay safe and in class.
A trusted coordinator who connects families to insurance, food assistance, specialists, and community resources — turning a one-time screening into lasting care.
Every service feeds a single record of each child's health, so screening leads to support, support leads to follow-up, and no child falls through the cracks.
Campus-wide screening identifies each child's physical, mental, and nutritional needs early — during the school day, with parental consent, at no cost to families.
On-site counseling, chronic-condition care, and nutrition programs address needs immediately, so a child can stay healthy and present in class.
A family navigator links each household to longer-term care, coverage, and community resources — and follows up to make sure help actually lands.
We hold ourselves to outcomes, not activity. Every grant comes with clear targets and a commitment to transparent reporting against them.
Share of enrolled children who complete a health screening each year, and the number of identified needs referred for care.
Percentage of referred children who receive follow-up care, tracked from screening to resolution.
Changes in students' access to mental-health support and self-reported well-being over the year.
Attendance and engagement gains associated with chronic-condition management and nutrition support.
Number of families linked to insurance, food assistance, or community health resources through navigation.
Cost per child served and the share of every dollar that reaches direct services — reported in plain terms.
A children's health program lives or dies on trust. As the Initiative launches and grows, it operates under the standards below — staffed and partnered as funding allows.
Partnerships are being developed; named partners added once confirmed.
South Hills Academy is included here as one representative campus in the Foundation's candidate network: a school community where under-resourced children and families may be reached through a familiar, trusted setting if program funding is secured.
The Initiative is not limited to one school. It is designed as a replicable school-based health model that can support candidate campuses and surrounding neighborhood children across West Covina, with services phased in as funding, staffing, and partnerships are confirmed.
Whether you are a foundation, a corporate giving program, or an individual donor, your support funds the health services a child receives on campus. The funding levels below are starting points for a conversation — we welcome multi-year commitments and program-specific grants.
Grants and gifts fund health services delivered to children on campus — screening, school nursing, mental-health counseling, nutrition education, chronic-disease management, and family health navigation. No grant funds tuition, and no grant subsidizes the school's general operating costs. A detailed program budget is available on request.
Underwrites a full campus screening event — vision, hearing, dental, and growth checks — with referrals for every child whose needs are identified.
Start a conversationBrings school-based mental-health support and social-emotional learning to students for a full term, with a dedicated, confidential space to be heard.
Start a conversationSustains the full five-service model and a family navigator for a school year — naming and reporting recognition included for major partners.
Start a conversationWe'll send our complete case for support, program budget, and outcome targets, and arrange a campus visit so you can see the model first-hand. Every conversation starts with the children we serve.
For partnership inquiries, please contact Frank Qian or reach us through the campus office.