Partners in Growth: Giving to The Corner
The Corner Health Center is a trusted and well-respected community resource, providing medical care, health education, counseling, and support services to low income adolescents 12-21 years old and their children.

Over the past 28 years, more than 18,000 teens have walked through our doors. Because The Corner provides comprehensive primary medical care as well as counseling, it takes advantage of its existing relationships with teens to provide other support services such as substance abuse prevention, education about risk reduction, STD and HIV counseling, crisis intervention, nutritional education, advocacy and referrals.

Quality Health Care for all Adolescents
No adolescent or their child is turned away due to inability to pay for services. The Corner provides health care to uninsured and underinsured adolescents and their children, who, without its services, might not have access to general medical care, prenatal care, nutritional programs, family planning, and mental health care. The majority of patients might not seek health care at all were it not for The Corner.

• Last year, The Corner served 1600 patients, and provided 6,800 services.

Insuring the Uninsured
Children without health insurance are almost twice as likely, as those with insurance, not to have seen a physician during the past year. Without insurance coverage, they are less likely to get preventive and primary care to avoid emergency room visits, hospitalizations and acute or chronic health problems.

• In 2008, The Corner helped 427 uninsured patients apply for health insurance, 221 subsequently received insurance coverage.

Corner Babies are Healthy Babies
Infants born to adolescent mothers, particularly girls younger than age 15, have a higher risk of negative health outcomes such as premature birth, low birth weight and neonatal death. Staff provide pregnant patients with appropriate medical care and nutrition education and help them prepare for and take care of their babies.

• Normal birth weight rate for Corner babies is 94%.

Teaching Teens to Make Healthy Choices
The Corner Theatre Troupe is a group of peer educators performing interactive, education skits on smoking, substance abuse, dating, violence, STI and HIV prevention. Composed of local high school students, the Troupe performs for youth, parents and professionals. After each skit, the actors stay in character and answer questions from the audience. Then, as themselves and as peer educators, they discuss the issues raised with the audience. After most performances there are two follow-up workshops to reinforce the information and skills learned.

• In the 2009 school year, The Corner Theatre Troupe/Peer Education Program gave 43 performances and 79 follow-up workshops that reached over 1,300 young people.

Healthy Spending: What a dollar can buy for The Corner Health Center

Our Challenges
The biggest challenge The Corner Health Center faces is to ensure access to low-cost, high quality health care to all young people despite the ever-rising cost of health care.

• cost of vaccines, contraceptives and other preventive medicine are on the rise
• nearly 20% of our 1,700 clients are uninsured