KidCheck, an award-winning school-based health-screening program in Alabama
that is the only one of its kind in the country, can continue to expand
its five-month-old wireless screening technology with a $25,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. Through a previous $100,000 grant
from the Foundation, KidCheck developed a unique online health
screening software program to increase efficiency of the screening
process, data collection, and the coordination of follow-up services.
KidCheck has screened more than 12,000 K-12 Alabama school children wirelessly. KidCheck began providing free health screenings to students in rural Alabama schools in 2008. Chad Nichols, Senior Director of KidCheck for Sight Savers America, which manages the statewide program, said, "The KidCheck program has changed the lives of young people simply by identifying health issues such as vision, dental, blood pressure, hearing and other problems that can impact the child's health and their performance in school." Read more.
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