Home & Hospital

The Oakland Unified School District Home and Hospital Instruction Program provides on-going academic instruction to students with a temporary disability which makes school attendance impossible or inadvisable.

Both general education and special education programs are provided.

The Home/Hospital program supports the student's academic needs until they are able to return to a school-based program. Instruction may take place in the home, in an Oakland hospital, or in our classroom at the Santa Fe School campus.

The program instructors make every effort to correlate home instruction with the student's school program, but Home/Hospital is not equivalent to full-time school instruction. Certain course work cannot be replicated in the home environment, (e.g. lab work, physical education, group work, academic discourse etc.) It is important to understand that there are two concurrent concerns, the student's health and recovery, and the student's continuity of education. Home/Hospital participants must consider that a student's performance may not be equal to the child's performance prior to the illness or injury.

A medical professional does not authorize Home and Hospital Instruction. Only the HHI Office can authorize service. In completing the Request for HHI, a medical professional must provide medical information so a valid and proper student placement can be considered.

HHI may be appropriate in the case of an acute mental health issue. Typically, however, mental health issues require a longer term site-based plan to address the needs of the student. This may warrant a 504 or an IEP and site-based accommodations.