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Innovative ways in which school-based health care is aiming to advance the development, health, safety, well-being, and academic success of vulnerable children and adolescents
Innovative ways in which school-based health care is aiming to advance the development, health, safety, well-being, and academic success of vulnerable children and adolescents
Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
School-based health centers (SBHCs) are going beyond providing individual, direct clinical services to venture into population health approaches in order to improve the health of children and adolescents.
Through a captive audience in the school setting, this model of care is employing evidence-based strategies that address students’ needs, physically and emotionally, so that they are well-positioned to achieve academically. The School-Based Health Alliance has been spearheading several national “learning labs” that test how SBHCs can serve as catalysts in population health and systems of care to increase student success.
This session will feature how select SBHC systems are operationalizing efforts around key health issues using the primary care—public health—education triad of partnerships. Examples will articulate the role of SBHCs in the following areas:
1. Collaboration with the school to implement and promote wellness policies and school-wide programming around healthy eating and active living;
2. Early identification of mental health and behavioral problems among students and interventions designed to increase resilience and decrease behavioral problems leading to disciplinary actions and/or school suspension;
3. Systematic identification, referral, and tracking of the highest-risk students using shared medical, educational, and economic data to increase access to quality services.
Session Objectives: Explain how SBHCs can lead the school and community in a process to create successful, integrated health promotion initiatives.
Discuss ways in which SBHCs can have a positive effect on school discipline reform by integrating restorative and skill building practices into an in-school suspension classroom.
Describe examples of technological solutions that bridge health and education data systems to inform child health, wellbeing, and academic success.
Describe examples of technological solutions that bridge health and education data systems to inform child health, wellbeing, and academic success.
Moderator:
Jordanna Snyder, MPH
8:30am
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Organized by: APHA
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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