Workshops

Our 2012 Conference, Vision & Voice for Healthy Students, will be held at the Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza in Sacramento on March 12-13, 2012.

Workshop List

  • Behavioral Health Integration in Schools
  • Collaborating to Design Your SBHC Facility
  • Collaborative Strategies for Sustaining SBHCs
  • Confidentiality and Minor Consent Updates
  • Electronic Health Record Adoption in SBHCs
  • Health Care Reform: What Lies Ahead
  • Health Plans and Public Health: What SBHCs Need to Know
  • How SBHCs Can Support Local School Wellness Policies
  • In Class, Ready to Learn? Why and How to Improve Student Attendance
  • Navigating HIPAA, FERPA, and Information Sharing in School Health Services
  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All! SBHC Planning and Operational Models
  • Oral Health: School-Based Models, Staffing, and Financing
  • Reclaiming Research and Making It Our Own: Youth-Led Participatory Research for SBHCs
  • Preventing and Addressing Teen Dating Violence at School: SBHCs Taking Action
  • School-Based Health Insurance Outreach and Enrollment
  • School-Based Immunization Clinics: A Model for Success
  • We’re Bringing Healthy Back! Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • What Did I Get Myself Into? School Nurses and SBHCs Working Together for Positive Health Outcomes

Workshop Descriptions and Presenters

Workshop Session I: 11:45-1:00

Health Care Reform: What Lies Ahead
This workshop will bring participants up-to-date on the implementation of health care reform in California. By learning about California’s Health Benefit Exchange, new health care delivery models, and future coverage expansions, participants will be better prepared for the changes ahead.
Kim Belshé, MPP, Member, California Health Benefit Exchange and Senior Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute of California (former Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency)
Serena Clayton, Executive Director, California School Health Centers Association

How SBHCs Can Support Local School Wellness Policies
This workshop will show participants how SBHCs can support school health promotion efforts by contributing to the implementation of local school wellness policies, with case studies from California SBHCs. In addition, the presenters describe how the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 2010 impacts school wellness policies.
Heather Reed, MA, RD, Nutrition Education Consultant, Nutrition Services Division, California Department of Education
John Lagomarsino, MSEA, School Health Education Consultant, Coordinated Student Support and Adult Education Division, California Department of Education

Navigating HIPAA, FERPA, and Information Sharing in School Health Services
What are HIPAA and FERPA and which applies to your work? Is student health information part of school educational records? How can schools and providers work together to adopt guidelines that work? Understand the two major privacy laws that govern schools and health providers, compliance challenges, and effective school-based strategies to protect both student health and education information.
Rebecca Gudeman, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law

One Size Doesn’t Fit All! SBHC Planning and Operational Models
Join this workshop to learn about the various models for school health centers, staffing patterns, and how to form and run a local planning committee. Hear from a Central Valley school district and community clinic on their SBHC planning process, challenges, and successes. CSHC will share start-up resources, tools, and technical assistance services.
Robert Frausto, Superintendent, Kerman Unified School District
Soyla Griffin, Chief Executive Officer, Valley Health Team, Inc.
Kat Greenway, Planner, Valley Health Team, Inc
Samantha Blackburn, Technical Assistance Director, California School Health Centers Association

Oral Health: School-Based Models, Staffing, and Financing
This workshop will stress the importance of oral care to student health and school success, and then help participants understand how school-based dental services are financed and provided.
Jared Fine, DDS, Dental Director, Alameda County Public Health Department
Hugo Ferlito, DDS, Salud Para La Gente

Reclaiming Research: Youth-Led Participatory Research for SBHCs
This interactive workshop will highlight the youth-led participatory research projects of eight youth programs affiliated with SBHCs and start-up initiatives across the state. CSHC’s Program Manager, Youth Board members, and Y2Y participants will cover principles of community-based participatory research, their training and research process, as well as useful and adaptable tools for other youth engagement programs.
Kathleen Gutierrez, Program Manager, California School Health Centers Association
Nzugu Kitenge and Krystal Betanzos, Youth Board Members, California School Health Centers Association
Participants in CSHC’s Youth to Youth (Y2Y) Affiliate Program

What Did I Get Myself Into? School Nurses and SBHCs Working Together for Positive Health Outcomes
In this interactive workshop we will examine results from the first four years of a demonstration project that linked school nurses with school health clinics. This session will include candid tales of our experiences in overcoming barriers. It will provide you with a practical and easily replicable collaborative model that has resulted in documented improvements in students’ health and educational outcomes.
Melinda Landau, RN, MS, Manager, Health/Family Support Programs, San Jose USD
Sue Lapp, Chief Executive Officer, School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County

Workshop Session II: 2:15-3:30

Behavioral Health Integration in Schools
This workshop will show participants how to shift from traditional models of school-based behavioral health that operate in partial isolation towards an integrated, system-wide framework, based on national best practices, that promotes school-wide prevention, early intervention, and treatment. The workshop will introduce key strategy areas for implementing the framework: blended funding, co-location of staff, local systems building, training and capacity building, assessment, and evaluation.
Lisa Warhuus, PhD, School-Based Behavioral Health Initiative Coordinator, School Health Services Coalition, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency
Tracey Schear, MSW, LCSW, School Health Services Director, School Health Services Coalition, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency

Confidentiality and Minor Consent Updates
Come learn about California minor consent laws, how to protect minors’ confidentiality in the delivery of adolescent health care, and how minor consent rights have expanded in the past year for mental health and STD prevention services. Apply these laws to your school health program in conversation with your colleagues and a national expert on youth health law.
Rebecca Gudeman, Senior Attorney, National Center for Youth Law

Health Plans and Public Health: What SBHCs Need to Know
This workshop will offer school health providers a better understanding of the health plan and public health perspectives. How do plans contract with the state, approach cost containment, and decide what to cover? What prevention and public health goals are plans charged with and how can SBHCs help them to meet those goals? Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of the issues and opportunities for working with health plans to achieve prevention and public health goals.
Ron Chapman, MD, MPH, Director, California Department of Public Health (former Chief Medical Officer, Partnership HealthPlan)
Joanie Rothstein, Senior Policy Analyst, California School Health Centers Association

Electronic Health Record Adoption in SBHCs
Do you know how to select, implement, and configure an electronic health record (EHR) for your SBHC? Discover specific considerations for SBHCs, including EHR features and functionality important to the school setting. Learn how to communicate specific SBHC needs to organization leadership, IT staff, and EHR vendors.
Sue Sirlin, CPEHR, HIT Consulting Director, Outlook Associates, LLC, a division of Qualis Health

School-Based Health Insurance Outreach and Enrollment
Los Angeles USD conducts extensive outreach and enrollment, resulting in thousands of new health insurance enrollments annually. This workshop will showcase the Children’s Health Access and Medi-Cal Program (CHAMP) approach, with special emphasis on the district’s partners and their role in reaching and enrolling as many students as possible.
Dale Reinert, Coordinator, CHAMP Office and Healthy Start Programs, Los Angeles Unified School District

We’re Bringing Healthy Back!  Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity
This panel-workshop will explore ways that social media is being used to promote and advocate for adolescent nutrition and physical activity in communities across California, and will demonstrate the relevance and value of social media to SBHC campaigns. The workshop will feature professionals with experience in public relations, marketing, nutrition education, and food justice advocacy.
Lloyd Nadal, Program Director, CANFIT
Linda Lam, Director, Marshall HS Health Center, Asian Pacific Health Care Venture
Paloma Belara, Publicist, PapaLoDown PR, (former Program Coordinator with Beats, Rhymes and Life)

Workshop Session III: 3:45-5:00

Collaborating to Design Your SBHC Facility
Oakland Unified School District has undertaken a dramatic expansion of its SBHC initiative, including the construction of 10 new SBHC facilities. In this workshop, OUSD’s lead for their SBHC initiative and a representative from a partnering architecture firm will share their collaborative approach, lessons learned, and how to avoid common and potentially costly pitfalls.
Mara Larsen-Fleming, Program Manager, SBHCs, Oakland Unified School District
Dong Kim, Partner/Architect, Byrens Kim Design Works

Collaborative Strategies for Sustaining SBHCs
Los Angeles school and clinic administrators will lead this session on how to create sustainable school health centers that deliver medical and mental health services. Financing, policy and community engagement strategies will be discussed in this dynamic, interactive workshop.
Nomsa Khalfani, MFT, Chief of Policy & Support Services, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center
John Gates, Organization Facilitator, Los Angeles Unified School District
Jan Marquard, MPH, Director of School Health Services/ Clinic Administrator, Northeast Valley Health Corporation

In Class, Ready to Learn? Why and How to Improve Student Attendance
Since chronic absenteeism is a warning sign of school drop-out and poor academic achievement, and school funding is tied to daily student attendance, improving attendance rates should be one of the core goals of all school health providers.  Learn about the impacts of poor school attendance and how to implement a school health program quality improvement initiative to increase student attendance.
Hedy Chang, Director, Attendance Works
Samantha Blackburn, Technical Assistance Director, California School Health Centers Association

Preventing and Addressing Teen Dating Violence at School: SBHCs Taking Action
SBHC providers and staff can play an important role in preventing teen dating violence (TDV) and promoting healthy relationships. This workshop will explore opportune times to assess for TDV and how some SBHCs and their partners are promoting healthy relationships during clinical visits, counseling sessions, and as a component of health promotion activities on campus.
Nancy L. Bagnato, MPH, Coordinator, Domestic and Teen Dating Violence Prevention Project, Violence Prevention Unit, California Department of Public Health
Molly Baldridge, Health Education and Youth Development Coordinator, Alameda Family Services School-Based Health Centers

School-Based Immunization Clinics: A Model for Success 
While some schools have offered school-based immunization clinics, this has not been a common practice in California school districts. The H1N1 pandemic and recent Tdap requirement prompted many districts to collaborate with public health and community providers on immunization efforts. This workshop will examine a variety of methods for structuring school-based immunization clinics, while highlighting the effectiveness of providing immunizations at school.
Tammy Evans, RN, Administrator of Health Services, Stockton Unified School District
Kat Greenway, Planner, Valley Health Team, Inc

YOUTH TRACK:

Workshop Session I: 11:45-1:00

Reclaiming Research: Youth-Led Participatory Research for SBHCs
This interactive workshop will highlight the youth-led participatory research projects of eight youth programs affiliated with SBHCs and start-up initiatives across the state. CSHC’s Program Manager, Youth Board members, and Y2Y participants will cover principles of community-based participatory research, their training and research process, as well as useful and adaptable tools for other youth engagement programs.
Kathleen Gutierrez, Program Manager, California School Health Centers Association
Nzugu Kitenge and Krystal Betanzos, Youth Board Members, California School Health Centers Association
Participants in CSHC’s Youth to Youth (Y2Y) Affiliate Program

Workshop Session II: 2:15-3:30

Not Just for Straight Girls! Joining Together to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Young school health advocates will learn how to deconstruct the notion of teen pregnancy prevention as only being a “straight girl” issue. In this interactive session, youth will learn about how young people – regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation – can work to prevent teen pregnancy in safe and supportive ways.
Kathleen Gutierrez, Program Manager, California School Health Centers Association
Toan Le, Youth Board Member, California School Health Centers Association
Dale Maglalang, Youth Board Member, California School Health Centers Association 

Workshop Session III: 3:45-5:00

Get Ready for School Health Day at the Capitol
Youth participants will become familiar with School Health Day at the Capitol activities, learn about different types of advocacy, and practice how to conduct legislative visits.
Manual Castaño, Youth Board Member, California School Health Centers Association
Bre’onna Wills, Youth Board Member, California School Health Centers Association

Download the 2012 Conference Schedule and Workshops PDF.