In an effort to highlight new and creative ways school-based health staff are engaging youth in conversations around health and well-being, we are starting a series called It Starts with You(th). By Kendall Watanabe, Health Educator at the Highland Middle School SBHC (International Community Health Services) In March of 2019, the staff from the Highland…
Every year in June, we say farewell to staff who are retiring and bid best wishes to those moving on to different professional endeavors. It is a time to celebrate their individual achievements and contributions to our King County school-based health community. To all those leaving us at the end of the 2019-20 school year,…
Crossposted from International Community Health Services U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited the International Community Health Services (ICHS) Highland Middle School Health Center on April 18, 2019, to learn how giving access to medical, dental and behavioral health services right on school campus is helping our Eastside community become stronger and thrive. By making it easier for…
Crossposted from The Seattle Times. By Claudia Rowe In the past three weeks, three students – at least one of them a middle-schooler – have died by suicide on the Eastside, and mental health workers say the apparent spike is emblematic of a growing national trend that may be best confronted through schools. Both the…
Crossposted from Crosscut. By Stephen Hegg Joshua Villanueva arrived in Seattle from the Philippines three years ago. He was 16, an age when most youth in the United States are fully immersed in high school. In the Philippines, Joshua’s future was in danger. “Guns… drugs… violence,” he recounts. “I was in a gang.” The…
Crossposted from The Seattle Channel Essential? Yes. But access to a dentist can be a challenge, especially for students on the go. Now, International Community Health Services (ICHS) is taking dental care to the doorstep of those in need. The full-service dental clinic on wheels made stops at high schools across the city this school…
