Some of our current projects include:
Youth Development
Youth Health Workers in School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)
The Youth Health Workers program helps SBHCs address the need for a diverse health workforce. We provide curriculum for youth development programs and health career training for young people.
Multiple funders
Youth Board
Our Youth Board promotes youth engagement at SBHCs through leadership, advocacy, and networking opportunities.
Multiple funders
Prevention/Population Health
About Us – Sexual/Reproductive Health & Healthy Relationships
SBHCs use an intervention that supports young people in developing healthy relationships and using condoms and highly effective contraceptives if having sex.
Partnership with ETR; Funded by Family & Youth Services Bureau
Promoting SBHCs for Sexual/Reproductive Health Services
We train adolescent providers on sexual and reproductive health engagement, work with Title X funded SBHCs to promote their services to adolescents, and use social media to promote health education.
Funded by Title X with Essential Access Health
Mental/Behavioral Health
Expanding Mental Health Services in Central Valley Schools
Schools are building capacity to deliver high quality, trauma-informed mental health services through our training of school health providers, teachers, and student leaders.
Funded by Kaiser Permanente and in partnership with REL West at WestEd
ACEs Aware
We support SBHCs in the integration of ACEs screening into clinical practice. What is learned will support other SBHCs across the state with implementing screening.
Funded by the California Department of Health Care Services through a partnership with ETR and Futures Without Violence
Increase School-Based Behavioral Health Provider Skills
Two learning cohorts utilize the ECHO model for school-based behavioral health providers to address adolescent depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidal ideation.
Funded by CIGNA Health Foundation
Best Practices in Substance Use Prevention & Treatment
School-based health providers are provided tools to improve and expand access to substance use services, including Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for students, with specific projects focusing on tobacco, vapes, marijuana, as wells opioids and stimulants.
Funded by California Department of Education TUPE and Youth Opioid Response California
Substance Use Advocacy
We are advocating for non-punitive substance use intervention policies, as well as new revenue streams to help SBHCs implement substance use prevention and intervention programs with adolescents.
Partnership with Community Catalyst and funded by the Conrad Hilton Foundation
Sustainability
SBHC Behavioral Health Financing
We are developing local models to integrate SBHCs into managed care delivery systems with a focus on access, prevention, outreach, patient engagement, and chronic disease and case management.
Funded by the California Endowment
School-Based Health Center Start-Up & Expansion
Technical Assistance for SBHC Start-Up
We bring together community clinics, mental health providers, school districts and other partners to launch new SBHCs. There are now 346 SBHCs from just 108 in 2000. Our goal is 500 by 2030!
Funded by the California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, and other funders
Technical Assistance for SBHC Quality Improvement
California participants of the national Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) gain quality improvement skills and strategies to increase well-child visits, depression screening, consent rates, and telehealth visits.
Stipends for participating sites sponsored by the California Department of Public Health
Central Valley & Inland Empire SBHC Coalitions
School-based health is expanding in both regions and we provide partners with opportunities to network and get support for starting and expanding SBHCs.
Funded by the California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente