Training Opportunity: Reproductive Health Screenings

cross posted from WA School Based Health Alliance Reproductive Health Screenings: Implementing One Key Question Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-key-question-implementing-pregnancy-intentions-screenings-tickets-60312043947 Contact: Caroline Sedano, sedanoc@crhn.org One Key Question® is a groundbreaking and simple service that encourages health care and social service providers and others to routinely ask women about their reproductive health needs. By asking: “Would you like to become…

May is Mental Health Month

For the last seventy years, Mental Health America has celebrated May as Mental Health Month. To celebrate in your School-Based Health Center, visit their website and explore their toolkit. Download fact sheets, posters, key messages, and articles that you can distribute through your school’s various communication outlets. Have photos of how your SBHC is celebrating Mental…

School Attendance and Health of the Rise with Hawai’i Keiki Program

Crossedposted from The Community Guide Summary Hawai‛i Keiki, a program formed through the partnership between the Hawai‛i Department of Education and the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa, used The Community Guide to substantially improve student attendance and promote health equity. They provided schools with trained nurses and established CPSTF-recommended school-based health centers (SBHCs) to offer treatment…

Youth Voice Highlighted at Gates Teen Action Fair

On March 23, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation welcomed over 30 youth-led organizations, groups, and clubs to their annual Teen Action Fair to highlight the work they are doing in their community. The Fair (themed “It Starts with You(th)”) was hosted by the Gates Foundation Discovery Center Youth Ambassadors and included performances from…

Teens Help Their Peers Build Resiliency in Seattle Public Schools

For the past year and a half, the Public Health School-Based Partnerships team has supported a youth-led peer-to-peer suicide prevention program in partnership with the City of Seattle. Growing from a group of six youth in summer 2017, the 2018 summer program welcomed eight Youth Organizers for Mental Health Education (YOMHEs). The YOMHEs worked tirelessly this summer…

Seattle Student HPV Vaccine Champions Make Waves on YouTube

Student advocates have worked in tandem with Public Health over the last four years to promote Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among their peers by connecting them with school-based health center (SBHC) services. Their work led to coverage rates reaching 80% at two-year participating SBHCs! Now they are hitting social media with some back-to-school messages for parents…

Local Youth Partner to Increase HPV Vaccination

Since 2014, Public Health–Seattle & King County has been partnering with local school-based health centers (SBHCs) and student champions to promote vaccination against the cancer-causing Human Papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the US with nearly 14 million people each year being newly infected. HPV can cause cancers of the…

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