Presentations by CHHCS Staff & Colleagues

2009

• The Future Is Now: Supporting the Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Children at School.
  JG Lear, 2009 School Health Interdisciplinary Program Conference, Ellicott City, MD. August 3, 2009.
  This presentation summarizes recent immigration trends nationally and in the state of Maryland. It also describes several projects the Center has been working through the RWJF Caring Across Communities initiative. These projects have created a range of services and interventions that address both the academic and emotional needs of children and they offer lessons that all can use.
  

• Building Successful School-Health Partnerships: Meeting the Challenges of Working Across Systems. 
  JG Lear, Grantmakers in Health Conference, Washington, DC. May 29, 2009.
  If health organizations are to provide prevention or treatment services in school, they must form successful partnerships with schools. While schools and health organizations share a commitment to children’s well-being, they have profoundly different organizational structures and operate in very different political environments. The presentation explains how the systems differ and how good partnership practices can overcome differences.
  

2008

• Adapting Evidence-Based Practices to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Communities.
  OA Price,  J Kaufman and M Sander, 2008 Center for School Mental Health 13th Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, September 26, 2008.

• Comprehensive SBHC Services Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Mexican Immigrants.
  OA Price and M Lyn, 2008 National School-Based Health Care Convention, Los Angeles, CA, June 27, 2008.

• Health Care Reform & School-Based Health Centers: Three Perspectives.
  D Behrens, JG Lear and J Schlitt, 2008 National School-Based Health Care Convention, Los Angeles, CA, June 26, 2008.
  

• School-Based Measurement for BMI: Reasons for Optimism; Reasons for Concern.
  JG Lear,  RWJF Forum on “Issues and Implications of Screening, Surveillance and Reporting of Children’s BMI”, Washington, DC, January 16-17, 2008.
  

2007

• Health at School: Hiding in Plain Sight?
  JG Lear, National Health Policy Forum, Washington, DC, March 9, 2007.
  

• Promoting Healthy Weight for Children (and Staff) in DCPS
  JG Lear, DC State Office of Education Policy Forum: Cutting the Fat -- Local & National Efforts to Provide Healthy School Environments for Students, Washington, DC, June 14, 2007.
  

• Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Youth and their Families.
  OA Price and M Sander at the Center for School Mental Health Annual Conference, Orlando, Fl, October 18, 2007.

• School Health and Health Care Reform:  Imagine a world…
  JG Lear, Symposium at Regis College, Weston, MA, November 28, 2007.
  

2006

• Part 1: Expanding Mental Health Services at School: Lessons from the Caring for Kids Grant Initiative. JG Lear, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools.
• Part 2: Seattle SBHCs "Reaching for Excellence", TJ Cosgove, Program Manager, Youth Health Services - Public Health/Seattle & King County, Seattle WA.
  
  
• Part 1: Providing Dental Health Services in SBHCs: Lessons from the Caring for Kids Program. N Eichner, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
• Part 2: HEALS, Inc. and Caring for Kids. T Wright, Executive Director for HEALS, Huntsville, Al
• Part 3: Key Components and Systems for a School-Based Dental Program. M Rosenthal, Dental Director for Children's Aid Society, NY, New York

• School-Based Health Centers: Policy and Practice. JG Lear on Web-based seminar sponsored by National Conference of State Legislatures, December 2005. An overview of state policies to guide SBHC development, and recent lessons from a grant initiative that expanded mental health and dental health services in schools,

• Related handout: Dental and Mental Health Programs in School-Based Health Centers: A snapshot from the Caring for Kids grant initiative.
  
  
• Issues and Opportunities in Organizing Mental Health Services in School. JG Lear. How schools work and what has been learned from recent school-based mental health programs. Presented at Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families Annual Conference, Denver, CO, September 25, 2005.

• Helping Children Maintain Healthy Weight: What Schools Want to Know.  JG  Lear, presentation at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ, July 7, 2005.
  
• A Systems Approach to Reducing Risk and Strengthening Quality in School Medication Management. N Eichner and JG Lear. Presentation at the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, June 17, 2005.
  
• School Health Services: Emerging Opportunities for CDC-DASH.  JG Lear, presentation at meeting of Expert Committee on School-Based Mental and Physical Health Services, CDC, Atlanta, May 12, 2005.
  

• The Future of Children's Health at School: Opportunities for Community Schools and Health Program Partnerships.
  JG Lear at the Coalition for Community Schools Conference, Chicago, IL, March 10, 2005

• Issues and Opportunities in the Organization and Financing of Mental Health Services in School.
  JG Lear at the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, National Academy of Sciences, May 20, 2004

• Beyond Mom and Pop: A New Vision for School-Based Health Centers.
  JG Lear at the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, Portland, Oregon, June 26, 2003.

• The Case for School Health
  JG Lear at the Washington State Public Health Association Annual Conference, Yakima, WA, October 14, 2003.

• Improving Children's Health: Making Community-School Partnerships Work
  JG Lear at the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. Improving Asthma Care for Children Conference, June 27, 2003.

• Comprehensive School-Based Health Programs: The Impact of School Policies and Programs on Student Health
  JG Lear at the DC Action for Children, Washington, DC, June 3, 2003.

• Improving the Health of Elementary School-Aged Children What’s Happening at School?
  JG Lear at the Annual Conference of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, Washington, DC, March 10, 2003.

• Caring for Kids: Expanding Mental Health Services for Children through School-Based Health Centers
  JG Lear at the American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 12, 2002.
  
  
• Caring for Kids: Expanding Dental Health Services through School-Based Health Centers
  A Ferebee at the American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2002.
  
  
• Health Establishments at Local Schools
  S Pietzrak, HEALS, Inc. at the American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2002.
  
  
• Improving Safety and Quality in Medication Management in Schools
  JG Lear at the American Public Health Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2002.
  
  
• School-Based Health Programs: What is the Role for Local Boards of Health?
  A Ferebee, V. Caine, R. Stevens at the National Association of Local Boards of Health Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 13, 2002.
  
  
• Part 1 - A Ferebee, Deputy Director, CHHCS
• Part 2 - R Stevens, Clinical Professor, NC Institute for Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

• Issues and Opportunities in the Organization and Financing of Mental Health Services in School
  JG Lear at the Policy Group for the MacArthur Foundation Mental Health Services Network, December 6, 2001.

• Improving Access and Strengthening Quality of Care for Adolescents 
  JG Lear at American Public Human Services Association, November 19, 2001.

• School Health: Getting It Right
  JG Lear at DC Action for Children Dialogue on the District’s School Nurse Program, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 5, 2001.

• A Method of Evaluating Clinical Services in School-based Health Centers
  N Eichner, L Juszczak, D Pastore, C Reif at The 2001 National Assembly School-Based Health Care Conference, Miami, Florida, June 25, 2001. Drs Juszczak, Pastore and Reif served as consultants to the Center on the continuous quality project.
   
• Beta Test of a Continuous Quality Improvement Tool (CQI ) for School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) [PDF]
  N Eichner, L Juszczak, C Reif, and JG Lear at the 2002 Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. (Poster Session) June 25, 2002.

• Evidence-Based Practice in a School-Based Setting: Opportunities, issues, and possible directions.
  JG Lear at the MacArthur Foundation Mental Health Network, Chicago, IL. July 17, 2002.

• Children's Mental Health: Current Challenges and a Future Direction
  by S Olbrich, MPH, GWU. June 7, 2002. (See Paper)
  
  
• Models that Work: Politics that Don't -- A History of school health in the United States
  JG Lear at Milwaukee Area Health Education Center, April 29, 2002.

• Expanding Dental and Mental and Health Services through School-Based Health Centers
  A. Ferebee at the National Oral Health Conference, Third Joint Annual Meeting of ASTDD & AAPHD, Danvers, MA, April 29, 2002.

• School-Based Health Centers As a Vehicle for Expanding Access for Adolescents
  A. Ferebee at 16th Annual Maternal and Child Health Coordinating Conference, Washington, DC, February 20, 2002.