The main audience at Head to Toe is school health workers, counselors, nurses and social workers. We welcome all topics, but are especially interested in the following for 2015:
- Staff wellness and implementation
- Physical Activity and implementation
- Nutrition
The following topics are additional suggestions for sessions:
For Nurses and School-Based Health Providers and Coordinators
- “How to” sessions for nurses
- Peer-to-Peer health education approaches and models
- Clinical skills including: assessment of injuries, chronic disease management in schools and school-based health centers (i.e. diabetes, asthma, trauma)
- Emergency and disaster planning and implementation
- Supporting the medically fragile student
- Confidentiality and ethics related to HIPPA and FERPA
- Care of the overweight child
- Best practices for school health
- Oral health and strategies to bring sealant programs and education to schools
- Assessment and referral approaches and models for student health issues and emergencies (i.e. substance abuse, trauma, suicide/depression, etc.)
- Teen pregnancy prevention and intervention approaches and models for schools
- Best practices for health promotion and education for schools
- Coordinating and facilitating school health advisory committees
- School health systems development focused on coordination models between school-based health centers, school nursing and school administration
- Billing and coding
- Medicaid outreach and enrollment
- Productivity
- Business Planning
- Evaluation – Data Collection and Reporting
- Partnerships for sustainability/Organizational Development
- Reporting to your community
- Nurse practitioner specific sessions on assessment or their relationship to school nursing
- Telehealth
- Youth Engagement
Behavioral Health
- The changing role of the school counselor
- Trauma-informed service
- Suicide prevention and intervention models and approaches for schools and communities
- Screening and early identification models and approaches
- Identification and intervention approaches for school behavioral health personnel on adolescent behavioral health issues, such as eating disorders, self-mutilation, GLBTQ, bullying/relational aggression, oppositional behaviors
- Teen dating violence awareness programs and interventions
- Substance abuse prevention and intervention models of schools
- Dropout and truancy models and approaches for schools and communities
- Systems of care development focused on mobilizing partnerships and collaboration between schools and community mental health organizations
- Community school approaches and models (i.e. before and after school programs, mentoring, tutoring and other community partnerships to support youth development.)
- Positive behavior supports and strengths-based resiliency models and approaches
- Cyber-bullying
- Underage drinking
- Student transitions (elementary to middle to high to beyond)
- Child abuse (April is child abuse awareness month)
Staff and Community Wellness and Integration
- Positive youth leadership development approaches and models
- Service learning models and approaches that foster youth and community engagement
- Nutrition and physical education models and approaches for schools and community
- Community and school collaboration – strategies to developing and facilitating school health advisory committees
- School wellness policy and implementation
- Creative school and community wellness projects to promote health, nutrition and physical activity.
- Program and systems development, with specific emphasis on program sustainability, evaluation and funding diversity.
- Public policy and program development focused specifically on Adolescent Health
- Immigration
