"But the school clinic brings many services to many kids who would otherwise have no place to go."

By the 1920s the hospital was operating school clinics to help determine mental deficiency in children.

But the school clinics' policy is to ask the adolescent for permission to inform the parents.

In the summer here, we run high school clinics, and invite college coaches from the area.

Under Elders's supervision, 18 other school clinics were soon functioning.

Many State Representatives, however, continued to oppose the school clinics.

In an accessible environment, a school clinic will provide many of the necessary medical services, she said.

At present, school clinics can only refer children to outside agencies that offer condoms.

After several visits to the school clinic, she told the physician there about the abuse.