We are adding to this list as more workshops are confirmed. Last updated on February 1.
Adolescent Screening Visits & Clinical Health Coaching in a School Setting
How can school-based health and wellness centers implement a health coaching and population health screening model to ensure they are meeting the holistic needs of students? Come learn how one health care agency utilizes health educators in an innovative classroom and SBHC-based approach to familiarizing students with the SBHC and linking students to needed services. La Clínica de La Raza in Oakland has implemented health coaching and adolescent screening visits in all of its eight SBHCs, partnering medical providers with health educators and other staff to reduce barriers and bring high quality services to the larger school population. This workshop will discuss successes, lessons learned, and best practices for implementation.
Presenter: Emma Brenner-Bryant, Health Education Supervisor; Jennifer Schlissel, Clinical Health Educator, La Clínica de La Raza; Kevin Rodriguez Solis; Mariam Ghassemi, Americorps Health Educators
Starting a School-Based Health & Wellness Center: For Health Partners
Health care agencies and community-based organizations that operate school-based health and wellness centers have specific considerations when it comes to providing care in a school setting, from ensuring robust billing practices to building effective partnerships. Learn about the steps and best practices to increasing access to care successfully.
Presenters: Amy Ranger, MPH, Director of Programs, California School-Based Health Alliance; Amy Blackshaw, MSW, Behavioral Health Project Director, California School-Based Health Alliance; Missy Nitescu, Chief Operating Officer, Northeast Valley Health Corporation
Starting a School-Based Health & Wellness Center: For Education Partners
Wellness Centers that are started and operated by education agencies are a growing trend that many communities across California are embracing. Hear about different successful models, how to engage partners effectively, and the best ways to keep services sustainable year over year.
Presenters: Sang Leng Trieu, DrPH, Consultant, California School-Based Health Alliance; Yesenia Ceballos, Wellness Counselor/Coordinator, Sierra High School; Hector Murrieta, Principal, Sierra High School; Aliea Coston, Head Counselor, Sierra High School, San Bernardino City Unified School District
Braiding Funding & Resources for Mental Health Services
Multiple funding sources are currently available from the state to support efforts by school districts and sites to address student needs. Join a deep dive into how districts and school sites can braid and blend these funding sources to meet the needs of our children and youth.
Presenter: Michael Lombardo, Executive Director, Prevention Supports & Services, Placer County Office of Education
Ensuring Consent & Confidentiality in School-Based Health Care
The appropriate sharing of information between educational and school health partners is essential, both to effectively serve students and families and to ensure legal compliance. What are HIPAA and FERPA and how do they apply? When and how may schools share information with their health partners and vice versa? How can parents, schools, and providers share information to improve health and educational outcomes?
Presenter: Rebecca Gudeman, JD, MPA, Senior Director, Health, National Center for Youth Law
Integrating Male Involvement Services to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Learn about the need to incorporate male involvement services to help prevent teen pregnancy. Hear about the success male involvement services have had in reducing teen pregnancy rates and helping adolescent males to find a sense of acknowledgement and purpose. Learn about practical strategies that support successful outreach and recruitment plans, create a safe space for learning and growth, and create community partnerships that honor male friendly services. Start the process of making a commitment to integrate male involvement services into your programs!
Presenter: Mario Ozuna-Sanchez, Senior Manager of Curriculum Training and National Initiatives, National Compadres Network
Honoring Grief in the Classroom
Join the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project (and NCTSN Category II site) in tender conversation about grief and collective care in schools: from student death impact on school staff, to schools as the site of critical grief healing. Together, we will consider the question: What pedagogies and practices might support us in creating a more humanizing classroom and school culture to support safety, connection and healthy grieving for students after a crisis? Whether you work in, with or alongside school contexts, join us in generative discourse and reflective inquiry that examines what honoring grief in support of healing means for school settings as well as how we might encourage collective healing and pathways towards renewal by honoring our loss rather than ignoring it.
Presenters: Brianna Young, MEd, Field Coach; Oriana Ides, MA, LPCCI, PPS, Field Coach, School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Project
Effecting Change With Youth Through the Use of Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication to facilitate people talking about reducing health risks and changing behavior. It is designed to enhance the student’s own motivation to change using strategies that are empathic and non-confrontational. MI’s approach draws out the student’s own strengths and desires to help them make changes to improve their health-related behavior including substance use. Learn about the fundamental MI spirit, principles, processes, and micro-skills.
This workshop will be held over two sessions and participants must attend both to receive CEUs. This training course meets the qualifications for the provision of two and one-half (2.5) continuing education credits/contact hours (CEs/CEHs).*
Presenter: James Peck, PsyD, Psychologist/Clinical Trainer, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
Fostering Safe & Supportive Environments for LGBTQ Students
Learn about California state laws that support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and gender expansive students at school sites, key LGBTQ terms and definitions, and best practices for fostering safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ students.
Presenter: Schmian Evans, MDiv, MA, LGBTQ Programming Specialist, Oakland Unified School District
Working Toward a Cavity-Free Future in California
The No. 1 reason for missed school days in California is tooth pain. Tooth decay is the most chronic disease affecting children and yet it is 100% preventable. It is the cause of 874,000 school days missed each year, which costs schools $29 to $32 million annually in average daily attendance funding. Learn about:
- The magnitude of oral health problems in children and what we can do about it.
- The planning and implementation of the state-wide school-linked/-based dental programs with community clinical linkage.
- A public health infrastructure for oral disease prevention that creates health equity.
Presenter: Paula Lee, MPH, RDHAP, Dental Hygiene Consultant, California Department of Public Health
Creating a Culture of Wellness: Compassion Fatigue, Resilience, & Healing
Trauma can have a profound impact on educators, partners, and a school itself, contributing to compassion fatigue and burnout. In this workshop, we will demystify and reflect on the cycle of compassion fatigue that occurs in helping professions. Learn about a framework for supporting staff wellness, and explore self-care planning and strategies that build on our innate resilience. Gain tools for yourself, your staff, and your organizations.
Presenters: Jamie Harris, EdM, Associate Director; Cristina Rosas, MFT, School Based Clinical Consultant, Center for Healthy Schools and Communities, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency
RYSEing to the Challenge: Youth-Led Radical Inquiry Emphasizing Mental Health Support Needs in Schools
Learn about a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) project called Education Justice Action Research (EJAR) that began in 2020 and centers the voices of students in a Bay Area school district. EJAR creates spaces in which youth that are marginalized can reckon with their own desires, labor power, and learning in order to determine the means by which they will meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of themselves, their families, and their communities. EJAR members have developed projects based on their findings that center around the mental health needs of their peers and community.
Presenters: Deysi Chacon, BS, Education & Justice Manager; Cory Aguilar, Director of Education and Economic Justice, RYSE Center
Centering Youth in Policy & Advocacy Efforts
Learn about policy and advocacy, how policy can create change in communities, and how youth voice can be centered in policy and advocacy efforts.
Presenters: Montzerrat Garcia Bedolla, Trainer and Consultant; Andrea Gil, Senior Program Coordinator, Youth Leadership Institute
Getting Ready for School Health Advocacy Day
Join us to prepare for advocacy visits with your legislators and policymakers during our School Health Advocacy Day on April 18. Learn what to expect during advocacy meetings, how to prepare your story and talking points, and get ready to advocate for school-based health care. This workshop will cover the basics of advocacy and provide you with a draft agenda for your meetings. You will also have plenty of time to practice so you feel relaxed and ready to speak up for school health and wellness!
Presenter: Marina Quintanilla, MPH, Advocacy Manager, California School-Based Health Alliance
Advocating for School Health & Leveraging New State Funding
Governor Newsom and the California legislature authorized a number of new programs, starting in 2021, to support health care for children and youth, and many will have relevance for SBHCs and the students they serve. They include the Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program (SBHIP); Community Schools; and the broader Child and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative. Hear about these programs, how they are being implemented, and what you need to know to engage in local implementation. Learn how to apply lessons learned from state and local advocacy efforts to advance school-based health and wellness in your school and community, leveraging these new opportunities.
Presenter: Gabrielle Tilley, MPP, Senior Policy Manager, The Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health
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