Maine Assembly on School-Based Health Care

With welcomed support from the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF), the ME Assembly embarked on a systems planning approach to organizing more efficient and effective collaboration between its primary care and behavioral health service providers.
By conducting a year-long analytical study and engaging in strategic planning activities, the ME Assembly and its partners have worked to [...]

With a 5 to 4 vote the MSAD #60 School Board voted to expand health services in the Noble Health Center to include Mental and Reproductive Health services. An addendum was added at the last second to not allow the distribution of emergency contraception.
Submitted by:
Cindy Dolben, RN
School Health Center Coordinator
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The Boothbay Region School Health Center recently was awarded a three-year $350K grant to increase mental health integration in primary care. As a result of those grant funds, our nurse practitioner’s hours have been increased, and we are excited to welcome our first ever school health coordinator, Pat Yetman, RN. We are starting [...]

Multilingual and Multicultural Center
Portland Public School

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At the invitation of WKKF, Phyl Rubinstein and Odera Bonney, a student from Portland High traveled to New Mexico on 12/10/08 to be part of a panel presentation along with SBHC staff from New Mexico at the annual Rural Minority Health Care Conference in Albuquerque, NM.  [...]

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 [...]