Success Stories by Topic: Schools

• Management of Chronic Diseases by School Nurses- South Carolina
  October 2009
  Middle school students with asthma and diabetes in the Upper Midlands Rural Health Network miss a significant amount of time from class and school.
• Outreach Advisory Committee for Planning and Implementing Middle School Chronic Disease Interventions
  October 2009
  The Upper Midlands Rural Health Network worked to improve health status, disease management and appropriate use of services for area residents with diabetes or at risk of developing diabetes.
• Van School-Based Health Care Initiative
  July 2009
  This project was designed to provide health promotion, health education, and primary health care services for more than 2,100 students in the Van Independent School District.
• Healthy Schools - Healthy Kids
  May 2009
  The project was designed to reduce alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; to address unsafe sexual behaviors; and to improve healthy diets and physical activity among children and adolescents.
• West Middle School Wolverine Den of Health
  May 2009
  Local Organizations joined forces to establish a school-based health center at West Middle School in Montgomery County that focused on the health care needs of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
• Hardy County School-Based Health Project
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the project was to improve access to health services for children in the Hardy County schools and to enhance their physical and emotional well-being by providing them with comprehensive health care services.
• Tellico Plains Full-Service, School-Based Clinic
  May 2009
  The school-based clinic was designed to address several health problems in the community by improving the physical health status of school-age children in Tellico Plains and surrounding communities and by identifying and treating health problems and ensuring followup care.
• Hancock County School-Based Health Center
  May 2009
  The Hancock County School-Based Health Center project offered several innovative education and support programs to children and parents.
• Health Connection for School Success
  May 2009
  Health Connection for School Success (HCFSS) was established to address the fact that children’s health not only is an important measure of community well-being but also is strongly associated with how well children perform in school.
• Frontier Youth Initiative
  May 2009
  The Frontier Youth Initiative (FYI) was conceived as a response to the loss of funding for school nurses in a nine-county region of north-central Nebraska.
• Maquoketa Community School District (MCSD) Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The MCSD Rural Health Outreach Program provided a wide range of health promotion and disease prevention activities including nursing offices in every school, annual health screenings for all students, dental care, mental health services, community education, annual scoliosis screenings for sixth through eighth grade students, and annual vision, height, weight, and blood pressure screenings.
• Treutlen County School Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Consortium members launched an onsite school clinic; conducted onsite assessments and screenings for vision, hearing, blood pressure, and mental health and provided various other services to Treutlen County students and staff.
• Focus on Wellness
  May 2009
  The overall goals of this project were to decrease the percentage of students who were absent from school 10 days or more each year, to increase the percentage of high school students who graduated on time, and to decrease pregnancy rates among female students aged 15 to 17 years.
• Management of Chronic Diseases by School Nurses
  June 2008
  School nurses in the two counties received specialty training in chronic disease management of school-age children.
• Middle School Chronic Disease Interventions
  June 2008
  Program assisted the Chester and Fairfield County School Districts with health services, especially related to diabetes prevention and management, including decreasing obesity and increasing physical activity.
• Rural Alabama School Sets High Standards
  December 2007
  Dedicated teachers, and a "sense of community" figures prominently in the academic success of the rural Fruithurst elementary school.
• Public Health Certificates Offered Online
  June 2007
  The Tennessee Department of Health created an online training program where department staff can earn certificates in applied epidemiology, health leadership or healthcare management.
• Norwich School District Project
  January 2007
  This project plans to improve the health status of its school-age populations by enrolling 90 percent of the target population into school-based health centers by the end of the school year; increasing access to primary care, mental health, and dental care services for students; and increasing enrollment in Medicaid, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus.
• School-Based Health Centers Expansion Consortium
  January 2007
  Bassett Healthcare and six school districts have formed a Consortium that seeks to expand and enhance their School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) to include dental and mental health care programs and community outreach services.
• Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project
  January 2007
  The Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will operate three school-based health clinics to provide primary health care, prevention services, and health education on topics such as diet, nutrition, exercise, high-risk behavior prevention, and tobacco use prevention to students in grades K-12 in the Claiborne County Public School District.
• Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi (RPH-Delhi) Community Wellness and Prevention Program
  January 2007
  The Richland Parish Hospital-Delhi (RPH-Delhi) Community Wellness and Prevention Program is a model program designed to provide health assessments, health promotion, and health education in settings such as the school, worksite, health care facility, and community.
• Addressing Diabetes in Irwin and Ben Hill Counties
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce diabetes-related hospitalizations and to reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes in these two counties through awareness of prevention strategies.
• Healthy Families Active Youth Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Families Active Youth is a health promotion and fitness project that targeted elementary school children and their parents in two towns in rural southwest Idaho to prevent and treat pediatric obesity.
• East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc.
  January 2007
  East Central Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Inc., has initiated a partnership of community agencies committed to the development and implementation of a comprehensive, countywide health risk prevention and outreach project.
• Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools
  January 2007
  The Rural Assistance Program for Churches and Schools (RAPCS) will provide access to health care for disadvantaged populations in Green, Sumter, and Marengo Counties. These counties are ranked among the poorest in the State and the Nation.