Broadleaf Health and Education Alliance works in rural India to ensure that children in low-income, rural communities have access to health care in order to reach their full potential.

1. Improving Communities
one child at a time
Experts in the intersection of health and education

2. About Broadleaf

3. Everyone deserves access to
healthcare and education.
Broadleaf partners with children, families, and schools in
the Eastern Himalayas to develop innovative, data-
driven programs that improve educational outcomes and
maximize well-being. We believe access to health
knowledge and educational opportunity empowers
communities to break down barriers to growth and
development so every individual can thrive.

4. The Opportunity
1 out of every 2 of students in control schools are
infected with intestinal parasites, 40% suffer from
iron deficiency anemia, and many are undiagnosed
with mental illness, chronic illness and
development delay– all of these issues result in
massive absenteeism in school.
Our model is to create innovative programs that
can be implemented by communities to tackle the
development challenges in the rural developing
world. We continually test and re-iterate using the
scientific method to ensure we are providing high
impact, cost effective, and evidence based
solutions.

5. Every solution we tackle is tested
using rigorous research
methodology. We take this
scientific approach in order to scale
only the most proven, impactful
and cost effective approaches to
development.
Our goal is to create programs that
leverage the tremendous
human talent that exists in our
partner communities, use solutions
and methods that yield
measurable results, and develop
platforms that can be
easily replicated not just regionally,
but globally.
Volunteering in 2008, our founders
were equally touched by the
openness and warmth of their new
found community as they were
shocked by the realities of their
students, whom suffered from
preventable diseases and
development delay, and their
school which lacked books, running
water, and toilets.
Committed Data Driven Scalable

6. Innovative solutions
CHHIP and TeaLeaf

7. CHHIP|
Comprehensive school health program delivered by community
health workers in rural primary schools
Comprehensive Health and Hygiene
Improvement Program.

8. We've created a teacher training
program to improve in-school
learning and a health and hygiene
education curriculum.
Our curriculum and supporting
activities are delivered by our School
Health Activists, who teach their
students about water, sanitation,
hygiene, germs, and nutrition so they
can stay healthy and in school.
We've developed a training,
screening, and decision
making program to empower our
School Health Activists to not
only provide primary health care
services but also know when to
escalate and refer issues and how to
help families navigate and access the
healthcare system.
The first step is to ensure the schools
that we work in our structurally sound
and have basic infrastructure such as
running water and working toilets.
We work with our communities to
complete the necessary construction
projects at the schools before
implementing the rest of our
initiatives.
School Health
Environment
Health Education
Primary Health
Services Interventions

11. TeaLeaf|
Improving access to children’s mental health care by meeting
children where they are, every day
Task shifting Child Mental Health to Primary
School teachers

12. The Problem
80% of children with a mental health condition
are undiagnosed and untreated, leading to poor
quality of life, impairment, or disability. The
fundamental underlying cause of this treatment
gap is insufficient professional human
resources.
Innovative care models are urgently needed to
address this challenge.
Globally, 10-20% of children
suffer from a diagnosable
mental health condition

13. The Solution
Train primary school teachers to deliver
evidence-based mental health care
Leverage existing, invested human resources
Meet children where they already are, every
day
Prevent future suffering; intervene early
Initial Results
18% improvement in mental health status.
Improved academic achievement

14. Stroudsburg Gala
Friday, November 22, 2019
Stroudsmoor Country Inn

15. The community has
gotten us here
•This is the third event of this kind in the Poconos
•The Stroudsburg community has been critical to
providing the “seed funding” for getting our two
keystone projects off the ground.
•Since the last event we have grown from 15 to 73
schools per year.
•Together with the Tata Trust we will expand TeaLeaf
into hundreds of schools across an entire district.
•The programs are tested and proven to work – help
us expand!

16. Thank You
BroadleafHealthEducation