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SBHA Announces New Capabilities to Children’s Health and Education Mapping Tool

December 17, 2021 For Immediate Release SBHA Announces New Capabilities to Children’s Health and Education Mapping ToolUpdates will Facilitate Connections between Schools, Community Health Centers to Provide Needed Health Services in Schools December 17, 2021—Washington, DC— The School-Based Health Alliance released an updated Children’s Health and Education Mapping Tool, featuring

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SBHA Releases Adolescent Substance Use Prevention Toolkit for SBHCs

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 model include: De-stigmatized and universal screening tools for substance use

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Innovative Strategies for Leveraging Schools as COVID-19 Vaccination Sites

Introduction In May 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12-17. To date, adolescents’ vaccination rates have continued to lag those of adults, with 33.2 percent of 12- to 15-year-olds and 43.8 percent of 16- to 17-year-olds fully vaccinated as of

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