Board OKs Clinic at Hoover High
The 2 1/2-year struggle to establish a health center at Hoover High School ended Tuesday when the San Diego Unified School District board of trustees gave its blessing to the clinic.
As expected, the board voted, 4 to 1, in favor of the clinic, which will open in early 1992 and be the first of its kind in San Diego County, offering basic medical care.
The clinic would also house a variety of social services, from public and community-based organizations, including counseling on child, drug and alcohol abuse; family counseling; parent education and gang-violence prevention.
The controversial clinic, first approved in concept by the board in May, 1989, had been attacked by the Catholic Church and anti-abortion groups contending that students might be referred to agencies off campus that offer birth control or abortion counseling.
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