SBHA recently released a new Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) toolkit! This step-by-step guide for school-based health centers (SBHCs) uses an innovative, evidence-based approach to tackling drug and alcohol use with adolescents. Core components that differentiate the SBIRT… Read More »SBHA Releases Adolescent Substance Use Prevention Toolkit for SBHCs
Healthier Generation and Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools launched the Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment (TSIA) last week. Many of you contributed to the work as early through partners through to the launch, making this resource infinitely better. Thank you for your partnership! Schools… Read More »Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment Launch
New Section: Special Consideration: Engaging Families as PartnersHOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT THESE PROMISING PRACTICES ARE BROUGHT TO THE HOME? Check out the latest in Addressing Diabetes Factors in Elementary School-Aged Children Through School and Community Partnerships, created in collaboration… Read More »Updated: Resource to Address Diabetes in Elementary School-Aged Children
All young people deserve to thrive. Adolescent relationship abuse, defined as a pattern of controlling behaviors used to gain power in an intimate relationship, can negatively impact adolescents’ physical and mental wellbeing. To develop and maintain healthy relationships, adolescents need… Read More »Healthy Starts, Healthy Hearts: Understanding and Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse
In celebration of National School Nurse Day and National Nurses Month, the School-Based Health Alliance and the National Association of School Nurses are releasing the following statement: “School Nursing & School-Based Centers Working Together for Student Success.” A big shout out… Read More »Joint Statement on National School Nurse Day and National Nurses Month
These are perilous times. I pray that you are all well and safe. As a Black man in America, with Black children (one a son), no one needs to tell me how to feel right now. I took this job… Read More »These are Perilous Times
The Honest Truth Behind E-Cigarettes: A Teen’s Perspective By Brooklyn Waller, Youth Advisory Council member Brooklyn Waller is a high school senior in Arkansas. She advocates for those without access to health care and for students to take advantage of their local school-based health… Read More »The Honest Truth Behind E-Cigarettes: A Teen’s Perspective
During the past two years, members of staff at the Centers for Disease Control’s Community Guide have systematically reviewed the literature describing the effectiveness of school-based health centers (SBHCs). The Community Preventive Services Task Force (an independent panel of public health and prevention experts)… Read More »Community Preventive Services Task Force Recommends SBHCs
Selecting a high-value partner To ensure students receive high quality health care services, school-based health centers (SBHCs) partner with other agencies to sponsor their clinical and managerial operations. The level of support and individual/shared responsibilities of operating the SBHCs are typically defined in a written memorandum… Read More »School-Based Health Center Sponsors
School-based health centers (SBHCs) cannot be sustainable on grant funds alone. Billing and reimbursement for services provided by the SBHC must be addressed during the planning process and included in the SBHC narrative business plan and pro-forma financial statement. In billing and reimbursement… Read More »SBHC Reimbursement