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

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

• Population: School Staff|Youth and Young Adults
• Geographic Areas of Implementation: Urban
• Setting/Context of Implementation: School
• Topics of Practice: Organizational Change/ Development
• Outcomes of Interest: Partnership Building
• Level of Evidence: Best
• Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
• Social Determinants of Health: Social and Community Context
• Outside of US: No