The Rales Center team is designing, implementing, and evaluating new programs to improve the impact and cost-effectiveness of models that weave together health and educational services. We are creating these approaches in collaboration with key community, public sector and academic partners. After testing their effectiveness locally, we aim to prepare them for adoption nationwide to catalyze changes in school health and primary care for children in other settings.
A partnership-based strategy
In partnering with the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the Division of General Pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Rales Center is a highly collaborative environment, one that benefits from the many strengths and the broad expertise of The Johns Hopkins University. Center faculty are drawn from departments across the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, bringing a broad range of expertise and experience.
Our valued philanthropic partner, the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation, provided a founding gift to help launch the Rales Center and has continued to support the sustainability of the program.
The work of the Center has also supported by the generosity of:
- Anonymous Donors
- The Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation
- The Abell Foundation
- The ASHOKA Foundation
- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- The Cupid Foundation
- The Leon Lowenstein Foundation
- The Maryland Community Health Services Commission
- The Richard Herman Fund
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for the Children of Baltimore City
Partnerships are pivotal to the success of the Rales Center. Partners in our work include:
- Adventure Dental and Vision
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Healthy Schools Coalition
- American Optometry Association
- Baltimore City Health Department
- Baltimore City Public Schools
- Division of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry
- Family League
- GoNoodle
- Guilford Garden Club
- KIPP Baltimore
- KIPP Foundation
- Marriott Hotels
- Maryland State Department of Education
- Race Maryland
- The Baltimore Education Research Consortium
- The Berman Institute of Bioethics
- The Johns Hopkins Consortium on School-Based Health Solutions
- The Maryland Department of Health
- The Maryland Optometric Association
- The School-Based Mental Health Services program at Johns Hopkins Bayview