King County, Auburn Mountainview High School and Sea Mar Community Health Centers celebrated the opening of the first school-based health center located in the Auburn School District March 7. School-based health centers offer health services to students at their school – usually for no cost and have positive impacts on students’ well-being and school participation. These health…
Crossposted from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) will soon be accepting Request for Funding Applications (RFA) for additional school-based health center (SBHC) grants. We expect to post the RFA by May 8, 2024, and the application period will close on June 7, 2024. These grant awards…
Crossposted from King County Communities of Opportunity Introduction As of the latest update in 2021, alcohol, cigarette, and cannabis use among students in grades 8, 10, and 12 across King County school districts are on a promising downward trend based on the recently released School District Health Profiles for King County. The King County School…
These upcoming webinars will discuss concerns of immigrant and refugee communities and may be relevant to your school-based health communities.
Swedish Medical Center is hiring a Social Worker for their SBHC at Ballard High School in Seattle. The position would be full time during the school-year with summers off. For more information about the position and to apply, click here.
Public Health – Seattle & King County in collaboration with Seattle Children’s consultants and the UW SMART Center hosted a convening of King County school-based health center (SBHC) mental health providers and clinical supervisors on February 28, 2024. For the first time in four years, the group met in person to share experiences and co-design…
In the 2021-22 school year, King County school-based health center (SBHC) staff participated in an evaluation project looking at social determinants of health in SBHC settings. The results of this evaluation were recently published in Preventive Medicine Reports. A big thank you to SBHC partners to participated in this effort. Go check it out!
The Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) Office of Equity and Community Partnerships has released an Equitable Language Guide among other equity-related resources available to PHSKC partners. The Equitable Language Guide is a tool co-created by the PHSKC Communications Team and staff throughout PHSKC to make sure that the way we talk and…
Crossposted from HealthPoint Community Health Centers By: Natasha Rudolph, Communications Coordinator, HealthPoint Community Health Centers Everyone Deserves Great Care. That line captivated Christene Mayo, School-Based Health Clinic (SBHC) Coordinator 2 years ago when she volunteered at the HealthPoint as a Quality Improvement Assistant (QIA), and she’s been with us ever since. As a Quality Improvement…
Join Seattle Public Schools (SPS) for an interactive session about racial equity! This session is brought to you by SPS’s Department for Racial Equity Advancement. This interactive session will engage you in some learning, as well as collective reflection in how we support and center students furthest from educational justice! DATE: Thursday, March 28 (date…
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