Timeline
2/1/2024: Health Justice Club Founded and First Meeting at SWW
2/12/2024: First Survey launched for SWW students: over 100 responses yielded these statstics
2/20/2024: Washington Latin chapter founded and first meeting at WLPCS
3/7/2024: Club wide T-shirt-making in preparation for SBOE public hearing hosted at SWW
3/20/2024: Testimony at the State Board of Education public hearing. An important networking and club-exposure opportunity
4/4/2024: Successful testimonies at the DCPS budget oversight hearing
4/29/2024: Testimony before the Deputy Mayor of the Department of Health and Human Services
5/8/2024: Committee on Health releases budget recommendation of allocating a total $2.5 million in additional funding to Student Health and Achievement in alignment with solutions outlined in our testimony.
Future: HJC Club members will be testifying when the public hearing for DC’s entrance to the NLC, B25-0430, is announced.
HJC is hosting a summit for students, nurses, parents, teachers, and policymakers to connect over solutions to the Nursing-Cluster System on June 14! RSVP on the calendar icon.