The School-Based Health Alliance is honored to welcome four new Youth Advisory Council members for the 2023-24 term. They are strong advocates of school-based health care in their communities and inspire their peers to join them in the fight to improve health… Read More »Welcome to our new Youth Advisory Council members!
Getting candid the importance of trust in youth substance prevention Date: July 2023 https://youtu.be/B0Vafqf5bCE
Overview The School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) is pleased to offer a new learning collaborative for school-based health centers (SBHCs) that want to increase well-child visits and vaccinations among school-aged youth. This activity is supported through an independent educational grant from… Read More »Increasing Immunizations Through Well-Child Visits: School-Based Health Center Learning Collaborative Opportunity
This initiative pairs the evidence-based model of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) with the unique school-clinic environment of SBHCs. The SBIRT model delivers evidence-based adolescent substance use prevention while also addressing related issues such as lack of… Read More »Substance Use Prevention
The goal of the Adolescent HIV Prevention ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is to reduce Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) acquisition risk for adolescents. The initiative focuses on those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,… Read More »Adolescent HIV Prevention ECHO
With funding from the Office of Population Affairs, SBHA supports Child Trends in the Innovations in Family Planning Clinical Service Delivery for Hard to Reach School-Based Populations project. SBHA works with Child Trends to identify, evaluate, and disseminate successful strategies that… Read More »Innovations in Family Planning Clinical Service Delivery for Hard to Reach School-Based Populations
The PlaySMART Videogame Project harnesses the power of play and videogame technology to prevent opioid misuse and promote mental wellbeing in youth. SBHA partnered with the play2PREVENT Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games to develop, evaluate and implement PlaySmart. PlaySMART… Read More »PlaySMART Videogame Project
Hallways to Health (H2H) empowers school-based health care leaders for policy change in healthy living. The School-Based Health Alliance provides a Learning Collaborative for training and assistance in expanding services to address community needs. Launched in 2013 with support from… Read More »Hallways to Health National Initiative
For the first time, our Board of Directors will be led by one of our State Affiliate leaders. Nancy Rodriguez, Executive Director of the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care, will serve as Board Chair. Others who will serve on… Read More »SBHA Board to have new leaders, include a voting youth member for the first time
Thank you to all who attended the National School-Based Health Care Conference this past week! We enjoyed seeing you all in person and learning alongside one another. It was a great honor and thrill to have Xavier Becerra, Secretary of… Read More »National School-Based Health Care Conference wrap-up: Connecting and learning together again