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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

295819
Partners in Educational Success: The Role of the School-Based Health Center Beyond the Clinic


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Steven McGhee, MA, Central Collegiate Academy, Detroit, MI
     
An overview of the historical context of the school (and community) in which the pilot project is being implemented. The social conditions, challenges and opportunities for the school population will be delineated within the context of dropout and the expanded role for SBHCs.

Learning Areas:

Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the dropout crisis within the school and community milieu in which the SBHC expanded role was implemented.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Principal of Central Collegiate Academy in Detroit MI.which the “Expanded Role for School-Based Health Centers to Prevent Dropout” strategic model and pilot project is being implemented.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4083.0: Beyond the Clinic: Using School-based Health Care for Primary Public Health Prevention