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ADVISORY: Students and Parents To Call for Tobacco Tax Increase

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Students and Parents to Call for Tobacco Tax Increase

Maranacook Students Will Unveil Video Asking Lawmakers to Help Prevent Youth Smoking

Members of the Maranacook Student Health Center Advisory Committee want lawmakers to take action on youth smoking, starting by increasing Maine’s tobacco taxes right away.

On Tuesday, March 23rd, students from the Committee will travel to the State House to unveil their new video calling on lawmakers to raise the tax on cigarettes in order to help prevent youth smoking, and equalize the tax on other tobacco products to keep kids from finding cheaper alternatives, like “little cigars” and chewing tobacco.

Parents and school administrators will also be in attendance. They will express their concern for Maine’s rising smoking rates and the Legislature’s lack of action in raising the price of tobacco products, despite the proven link between higher prices and reduced youth smoking.

WHAT: Press Conference Calling for a Tobacco Tax Increase

WHEN: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:30am

WHERE: Taxation Committee Room #127, State House, Augusta

WHO: Chuck Hays, Maranacook High School student
Justin Greeley, Maranacook High School student
Emily Allen, Maranacook High School student
Dr. John Barnes, Maranacook parent and Readfield physician
Rich Abramson, Superintendent of Maranacook Area Schools

CONTACT: Carol Kelly (207) 210-0789

Presentation to Maine School Management Association Annual Conference October 2009

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Maine School Management Association Annual Conference October 2009 – Participants include Maine School Superintendents, School Board Members and other administrators.

Presentation Title : Improving the Health & Well-being of Young People While Addressing Barriers to Learning – The Benefits of a Comprehensive School-Based Health Center (SBHC)

Superintendent Rich Abramson and Health Center Coordinator Cindy Flye provided an overview of Maranacook’s Student Health Center and general information about school-based health centers and the role they play in supporting student success and achievement. They shared how Maranacook’s Student Health Center has evolved over the past 16 years; how acute medical services and behavioral health services are funded; and the benefits of a SBHC.

The informational packet provided to the participants included the Academic Outcome fact sheet from the National Assembly on School-based Health Care – an excellent resource if you need a brief one pager to share with your school administrators and/or school board. (PDF on the Download Page)

Submitted by: Cindy Flye, SBHC Coordinator, Maranacook and President of the Maine Assembly

MSMA SBHC Presentation

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Clinical Fusion® Help Desk

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Clinical Fusion® Help Desk provides technical assistance and support in clinical data collection by phone, email, and in person to Maine School-based Health Centers using Clinical Fusion®.

The Help Desk will:

• Provide support by phone, email, and in person
Provide written lessons for most common questions

• Provide research and testing to resolve unique issues
Maintain website as a store of information

• Assist in developing policy for Maine through an advisory group
Liaison with software developers

Contact:
Tina Aubut; (207) 780-5893; taubut@usm.maine.edu

University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service
PO Box 9300, 15 Baxter Blvd, Portland, Maine 04104

Visit Clinical Fusion:
The Help Desk’s directive and funding are provided by the State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Community Health, Teen and Young Adult Health Program.

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Contributing Factors of Successful Maine School-Based Health Center Mental Health Programs

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School-based health centers (SBHC) are small primary care clinics that deliver preventive and primary care, as well as counseling, health education, and dental services, to children and adolescents where they are much of the day — in school. As more school officials, health care administrators and practitioners, parents, and students realize the benefits of high quality physical and behavioral SBHC care, the popularity of the centers has grown. Over the last couple of years, more Maine SBHCs have added mental health counseling to their service delivery mix. The addition of these early intervention, crisis intervention, prevention, and treatment services has come about as SBHC and school personnel recognize that many students have an assortment of mental health concerns (e.g. substance abuse, relationship problems, sexual and physical abuse) that need to be addressed if students are to succeed academically. What is not known, at least in Maine, is how best to provide mental health services in a SBHC setting. As more SBHCs without mental health services seek to add these services, careful consideration should be given on how to integrate these services into a SBHC program.
The Maine Center for Disease and Control and Prevention’s Teen and Young Adult Health (TYAH)
Program provides operational support to many of the state’s SBHCs. For this study, the TYAH Program partnered with the Edmund S. Muskie School’s Institute for Public Sector Innovation to examine a range of school-based mental health services/issues in Maine. This report encompasses five studies. The first three listed below deal with SBHC mental health services and the last two cover the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Maine (NAMI-Maine) efforts to address teen depression and suicide in a school setting. The report

title comes from the third study listed below. The five studies are:
1. An Assessment of Mental Health Services at all Maine SBHCs
2. Funding Mechanisms/Categories for Maine Adolescent Mental Health Services
3. Contributing Factors of Successful Maine SBHC Mental Health Programs
4. Curriculum Evaluation for Understanding Mental Illness Training
5. Curriculum Evaluation for Out of the Shadows Training

Download Full Report