West Virginia School Based Health Center Staff and School Nurses are invited to register for a free 3-part webinar on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)— Thursday, February 14, 2013, as well as February 28 and March 14, from 2:30-3:30 p.m

Do you need substance abuse training to meet your licensure requirements or are you interested in learning more?  If so, join us for a series of WebEx’s on SBIRT and Substance Abuse.  Participants will learn about substance misuse and the basic component of SBIRT as an evidenced based model during the first SBIRT WebEx.

Recently the RN news magazine provided information on newly mandated 3 hours of continuing education related to substance misuse.  This requirement is part of the Governor’s Bill on Substance Abuse – Senate Bill 437.  The deadline for the 3 hours of CE is October 31, 2013.

This training is geared towards school nurses and school-based health center staff and will be offered only via WebEx (no conference call lines will be available).  The Webinar is FREE but you must register in advance.  We are limited to the first 100 WebEx participants, so please register early and try to plan for group access when able. The Webinars will be recorded for scheduling convenience.  Nurses are encouraged to become fully trained in SBIRT with the 3 Webinarsto fully meet the WV RN Board requirements for CEUs.  Yes, this means you will have 3 nursing contact hours towards substance abuse, but the full SBIRT training is a true value for nurses working within the school setting.

Click Here to Register for February 28 Session – Part Two

Click Here to Register for March 14 Session – Part Three

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This event is coordinated by the West Virginia Department of Education Office of Healthy Schools and Marshall University School Health Technical Assistance Center.

West Virginia is one of the states featured in this report from the Center for Health Care in Schools at George Washington University. The report discusses the systemic challenges to ensuring children’s access to mental health care and describes examples of success which can serve as a guide for those responsible for implementing the Affordable Care Act or other policies that strengthen children’s mental health.

Download Report

Please join us Thursday, April 4, 2013 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. for a free webinar on Adolescent Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention (ASPEN)

Guest Presenters Barri Faucett & Hope Siler

Do you need training on how to recognize and respond to suicidal risk factors and warning signs?  Do you need CE’s to meet your licensure requirements or are you interested in learning more?  If so, join us for a training WebEx presented by the Adolescent Suicide Prevention & Early Intervention (ASPEN) project.

This training is geared towards school nurses and school-based health center staff and will be offered only via WebEx (no conference call lines will be available).  The Webinar is FREE but you must register in advance.  We are limited to the first 100 WebEx participants, so please register early and try to plan for group access when able.

Click Here to Register

Click here for Learning Objectives, Presenter & CEU Information

Downloadable presentations, reports and other resources made available at the ESMH Annual Planning Retreat on December 10, 2012.  Thanks to Sharon Stephan, Co-Director of the national Center for School Mental Health, for facilitating the two-day session.

• WV Stakeholder Retreat Advancing School Mental Health (Power Point)

• Part One – WV Expanded School Mental Health History and Progress (Power Point)

• Part Two – WV Expanded School Mental Health History and Progress (Power Point)

• Ohio County Schools Madison Elementary ESMH (Power Point)

• Youth Health Services – Expanded School Mental Health Services in Rural Communities (Power Point)

• School Counseling Update -ESMH Dec 2012 (Power Point)

• West Virginia School-Based Health Assembly (Power Point)

• Tier 1 Recommendations Summary Final 5.11.11 (MS Word)

• WV Retreat Agenda (MS Word)

• WV System of Care Logic Model 8 27 12 (MS Word)

• What is a School Based Health Center? (Adobe pdf)

• WV Family Engagement – Definition and Benefits (Adobe pdf)

• West Virginia Parent Educator Resource Centers – WVDOE Link

Our directory has been updated with more information.  School-based health centers (SBHCs) are health clinics that bring preventive and immediate care, as well as counseling, health education, and sometimes dental care, to children and adolescents where they spend much of the day – at school.  Click below to download Parts 1 and 2 (pdf documents):

2012-2013 School Based Health Center Directory Part 1 – Counties A to H

2012-2103 School Based Health Center Directory Part 2 – Counties I to Z

We all share a common priority: keeping our children safe. The recent school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has heightened our awareness of the vulnerability of our children and communities to violent actions. However, it is important that we not respond by merely addressing security in schools.

Since 2006, a steering team that includes the WV-DHHR Bureau for Behavioral Health and the WV Department of Education has studied how to improve state and local capacity for school based mental health.

Click here to download the January 2013 information brief:

Mental Health & School Safety in West Virginia (Adobe pdf document)

Click here to find resources, sample forms, WV practice documents and student activity handouts

Marshall University School Health and Technical Assistance Center would like to congratulate the agencies listed below on their successful application for school-based oral health services in their communities.  A partnership between the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the West Virginia Development Office will award grants to support collaborative efforts for improving the oral health of youth through school-based/linked dental services.  Onetime funding will provide a sealant program focused on 2^nd, 3^rd and 6^th grades, a fluoride program, and referral for establishing a dental home for children without one.  The data collected by this project will contribute to documenting the status of children’s oral health in the state.

Funded school-community partnership applicants are: Family Care Health Center, Valley Health Systems, Ritchie Regional Health Center, New River Health Association, Greenbrier County BOE, Cabin Creek Health Systems, Kanawha Dental Health Council, Lincoln Primary Care Center, Roane County Family Health Care, and Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department.

Contact Bobbi Jo Muto for additional information: 304-542-9592, or bjmuto.steele@marshall.edu

2011-2012 School Based Health Centers Directory (Adobe pdf)