TA Responses: School-Based Health Center-Policy Issues

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TOPIC: School-Based Health Centers

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Guides to Practice

Mental Health and School-Based Health Centers

Technical Assistance Sample

School-Based Health Centers

Center Brief

Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together (December, 2000)

Continuing Education Modules

Introductory Packets

Newsletter

Ideas into Practice: Making MOUs Meaningful (Fall, '01)

Resource Aid Packet

Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Technical Aid Packet

School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care: A Technical Aid Packet

Articles

H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2000). Looking at School health and School Reform Policy Through the Lens of Addressing Barriers to Learning. Children's Services: Policy, Research, and Practice 3 (2), 117-132.

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Benefits of a School-Based Health Center in a Preschool
The Federal Case for School-Based Mental Health Services and Supports
How to Build a School Health Center from the Ground Up
Impact of School-Based Health Center Use on Academic Outcomes
Improving Coordination Between School-Based Health Centers and Medicaid Managed Care
Legal Issues and School-Based and School-Linked Health Centers
Maine Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Making the Case for School-Based Health: Where Do We Stand?
Massachusetts Coalition of School-Based Health Centers
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Opening a School-Based Health Center
Principles and Guidelines for Comprehensive School Based Health Centers
Quality Standards of Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Review of school-linked children's health programs, Center for Health Improvement
School-Based Health Center Program (Multnomah County Health Department)
School-Based Health Centers (CO Department of Public Health and Environment)
School-Based Health Centers (CT Department of Public Health)
School-Based Health Centers (DE Health and Social Services)
School-Based Health Centers (TX Department of State Health Services)
School-Based Health Centers in New York State
School-Based Health Centers: Improving Access and Quality of Care for Low-Income Adolescents
School-Based Health Clinics, Guidelines
West Virginia School Based Health Assembly
What are School-Based Health Centers?
What is a School-Based or Linked Teen Health Center? (Public Health Seattle & King County)

Video Clips

NASP online learning event on population-based mental health services

Related Agencies and Websites

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy

Advocates for Youth--The Support Center for School-Based and School-Linked Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics - Committee on School Health (COSH)

American Medical Association - Program on Child and Adolescent Health

CDC--Division of Adolescent and School Health

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools

Colocating Health Services: A Way to Improve Coordination of Children's Health Care?

National Adolescent Health Information Center

National Assembly on School-Based Health Care

National Association of Community Health Centers - Adolescent & School Health Initiative

Resource Project: Health Care Services(Training Curriculum)

Resource Project: Youth with Special Health Care Needs(Training Curriculum)

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

An in-law comes to stay: examination of interdisciplinary conflict in a school-based health center. Social Work by Jonathan D. Fast (2005). National Association of Social Workers.

Cross assessment of a school-based mental health screening and treatment program in New York City. (2004). By, P. Chatterji, et al., Mental Health Services Research, 6, 155-166.

Early access to health care services through a rural school-based health center. Journal of School Health by Susan H. Terwilliger(2005)

Evaluating Student Services Provided by School-Based Health Centers: Applying the Shuler Nurse Practitioner Practice Model. Journal of School Health by Pamela A. Shuler (2005). American School Health Association.

Satisfaction with a school-based teen health center: Pediatric Nursing by Ramona Benkert, Nancy George, Clare Tanner, and Violet H. Barkauskas(2007). Thomson Gale.

School-based health centers and academic performance: research, challenges, and recommendations. Journal of School Health by Sara Peterson Geierstanger, Gorette Amaral, Mona Mansour, and Susan Russell Walters (2005). American School Health Association.

School Health Centers and Primary Care for Adolescents: A Review of the Literature. By, J. Santelli, M. Morreale, A. Wigton, & H. Grason (1996). Journal of Adolescent Health, 18, 357-366.

Youth voices as change agents: moving beyond the medical model in school-based health center practice.: An article from: Journal of School Health by Leslie A. Mandel and Jasmine Qazilbash (2005). Thomson Gale.

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