Offering everything from vaccinations to physicals and dental and vision checkups, free health clinics will be held in the next two weeks to help ensure children are ready for the start of school, it has been announced.

In Richmond, CrossOver Healthcare Ministry, which has offered free health care since 1983, will start the ball rolling with two first-come, first-served clinics Friday, Aug. 17, and Saturday, Aug. 18.

The clinics are for children who are enrolled in Medicaid and/or FAMIS or have no insurance and are accompanied by a parent or guardian, CrossOver officials stated. Adults are asked to bring their children’s vaccination records.

The first no-charge clinic will be 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, at CrossOver’s clinic at 108 Cowardin Ave. Registration will be open through 11:30 a.m.

CrossOver plans to provide needed shots, vision and dental screenings and required physicals and to distribute donated school supplies.

A second, similar clinic will be held 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at CrossOver’s Henrico location, 8600 Quioccasin Road near Regency Square mall.

The Richmond City Health District will follow with its own first-come, first-served back-to-school clinic 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at its headquarters, 400 E. Cary St. It is open to all.

Vaccinations will be available for children entering Head Start or VIEW programs or entering kindergarten.

Also, the city health district will provide booster shots for TDaP, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, that are required for rising sixth-graders to enter middle school.

The health district also will provide free physicals that are needed for school entry or Head Start through a partnership with the VCU School of Nursing. However, the district stated that it would not offer sports physicals at the event.