Success Stories by Topic: Youth

• 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.
• Clinch Valley Community Action Camp Joy Program
  September 2009
  Camp Joy provides access to recreation, sport and educational activities to low-income children in a rural area that has few organized summer activities.
• Community Action Partnership-Minot Region Be Amazed Teen Maze Program
  September 2009
  A community effort to teach students in grades 7 through 12 to make positive life choices that can prevent some of the most serious threats to their health and safety.
• Youth Emergency Services, Inc. Housing and Independent Living Program
  September 2009
  The Housing and Independent Living Program provides the tools necessary for newly-independent foster youth to establish a self-sustaining and constructive life style.
• The East Central Georgia Regional Teen Wellness Coalition
  July 2009
  The Initiative increased awareness and access to health promotion services by providing ongoing leadership training regarding healthy lifestyles for local youth; encouraging these youth to take a leadership role in planning, implementing and monitoring local health promotion/education projects; and supporting these youth as they plan and coordinate an ongoing local healthy lifestyles education outreach campaign for the youth in our service area.
• Mendocino County Health Department
  July 2009
  The project was designed to address adolescent substance abuse by providing youth with knowledge, refusal skills, and opportunities to bring positive change to their communities.
• 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.
• Family Advocacy Network
  May 2009
  FAN was established to raise community awareness and educate providers about child abuse and domestic/sexual violence and to establish the FAN center as a coordinated response agency for victims and their families.
• 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.
• A Caring Country Community
  May 2009
  The primary goal of the Caring Country Community project was to promote interaction between the community’s elderly and young residents.
• Alaska Youth Media Project
  May 2009
  It is not uncommon for rural communities in Alaska to be designated as health professional shortage areas. The shortage of health professionals in these communities limits opportunities to educate rural residents, including youth, about healthy behaviors that can reduce morbidity and mortality later in life.
• Northeast Minnesota Area Health Education Center Iron Range Health Occupations Today
  July 2008
  The Northeast Minnesota Area Health Education Center Iron Range Health Occupations Today (H.O.T.) program provides health career pathways for students by establishing education partnerships to support and increase student skills as they discover health care career opportunities.
• Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative “Club Scrub”
  March 2008
  Rural providers collaborated on an interactive, after-school program called “Club Scrub” – a community partnership involving local hospitals and their respective school systems. The primary goal of the program was to increase awareness of health-related professions.
• Healing Center Helps Children
  June 2007
  Dedicated to enriching the lives of children with disabilities in middle Georgia, The Healing Center provides financial assistance in physical, occupational, music, massage, speech, hippo, aquatic and mental therapies.
• Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Fitness Project
  January 2007
  The need for this project was to address the overweight/obesity problem for Native American children ages 6-18 through an after-school based program involving fitness, nutrition and wellness (selfesteem) components.
• Precision Valley Physical Activity and Nutrition Consortium
  January 2007
  The Precision Valley Physical Activity and Nutrition Consortium will increase youth and family access to physical activities and increase opportunities for healthy food choices in Springfield and Windsor, Vermont.
• Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative
  January 2007
  The Northern Tele-psychiatry Initiative will improve the mental health of children and teens, reduce the number of admissions to child psychiatric in-patient units, and help prevent the inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic medications by primary care practitioners to children and adolescents.
• 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.
• Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative
  January 2007
  The goal of the Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative (SHLRI) is to reduce use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by students in five communities in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota.
• Fighting Obesity in Children and Adolescents
  January 2007
  This project aims to reduce the proportion of children and adolescents who are overweight or obese in three Michigan counties.
• Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative
  January 2007
  The goals of the Mid-Coast Mental Health Integration Initiative are to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services, reduce the stigma associated with mental health, reduce the number of crisis interventions, improve coordination and cooperation among local health providers, and disseminate an innovative model.
• Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT)
  January 2007
  The Mendocino County Health Department and its partners developed the Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT) in response to the need for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for rural youth in northern California.
• Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program
  January 2007
  The Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program is a collaborative effort of the Hardrock Council on Substance Abuse, Inc. (a local non-profit corporation), the Hardrock Chapter House (a local governmental subdivision on the Navajo Nation), and the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health's Project EXPORT. The purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen their collective efforts in building a strong infrastructure for substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment at the community level.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Parish Nurse Outreach Project
  July 2005
  Since the church is widely considered the most viable institution in Harper County, area churches were the crux of the project's outreach efforts to address the limited health care resources available in the community, to assess individual and community needs, and to assist members of the community in accessing local resources.
• Cold Water Safety in the Schools Program
  July 2005
  This program was established to deliver cold water safety and survival training to rural teachers, paraprofessionals, pool staff, and rural elementary, middle, and high school children throughout Alaska.
• Enhancements to Healthy Families Nurturing Families
  July 2005
  This grant project was designed to address the high incidence of juvenile crime, family violence, and substance abuse among families raising teenagers.
• Facilitating Health Care for Special Needs Children in Southwest Washington State
  July 2005
  The project consortium developed survey instruments, policies, procedures, and data forms and then contacted health departments, schools, and local medical and service providers to introduce project services and encourage referral of children with special needs.
• Kid Power
  July 2005
  The focus of this program was to enroll eligible children and educate their families about healthy nutrition, proper diet, exercise, and the importance of weight management in improving their overall health.
• Rural Health Outreach Program for Children (Mena, Arkansas)
  July 2005
  Nine local organizations that offered different types of health and social services agreed to create a consortium to share responsibility for providing a range of services to young parents and expectant mothers.
• School Health Network (Canton, Illinois)
  July 2005
  This network was designed to increase access to health care for school-aged children, improve student health status, and decrease absenteeism as well as launching a "Prevention Coalition" to address four key public health challenges in local schools: alcohol and other drug use; violence; teen pregnancy; and transmission of HIV and other STDs.
• Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care
  July 2005
  This project provided case management, integrated behavioral health care, risk reduction services, provider retention initiatives, and transportation for targeted low-income and working-poor families.
• Rural Health Outreach (Gold Beach, Oregon)
  July 2005
  The project's overriding mission was to stabilize the local clinic while providing health promotion and prevention opportunities in the core areas of heart, breathing, cancer, and diabetes.
• Williamsburg School Health Improvement Project
  July 2005
  Three consortium members joined forces to refer students without primary health care to primary care physicians; conduct health screening procedures by a school nurse; provide early periodic screening, diagnosis, and testing services to eligible students enrolled in grades kindergarten through sixth; provide hospitalization intervention for ambulatory-sensitive conditions in children under age 18; conduct health promotion sessions for the 13 county schools; provide counseling intervention services for substance abuse, child abuse, reproductive issues, and violence in each of the 13 county schools; and conduct home visits to provide family support services to families of school students in the 13 local schools.
• Youth Health Initiative
  July 2005
  School-based health clinics were established in six schools in two counties with successful innovations that included free immunizations for all youth in the targeted schools, a social worker to identify and enroll students eligible for Medicaid or CHIP and to perform case management on all enrollees, and teen educational programs and counseling services.
• Rural Health Outreach Grant Program (West Wendover, Nevada)
  July 2005
  Four consortium members created this program to provide local access to mental health services and to provide a school-based program teaching resiliency and social skills to school-aged children and their parents.
• Warrior Wellness Center
  July 2005
  To address the serious issue of teen pregnancy in Jefferson County, a network was formed to establish an effective mechanism for proactive pregnancy prevention and health promotion outreach for the county's rural adolescents.
• Wellness Partnership for a Healthy McKinley County
  July 2005
  This project involved an innovative education program that used high school students to mentor elementary students in diabetes prevention techniques with the goal to improve the wellness of the community by developing healthy living skills in the 10-to 12-year-old population, and specifically to incorporate diabetes awareness activities into this target group's school day.
• For Our Children
  July 2005
  The project objective was to provide improved health care services to 2,500 K - 12 students by using grant funds to provide a full-time Registered Nurse and one dedicated social worker to local public schools.
• Healthy Connections West
  July 2005
  The goal of this project was to provide mental health intervention services to targeted children and their families in order to achieve improved academic and social performance.