Clinical Advancement
How We Support Clinical Advancement in School-Based Clinics
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Our clinical work focuses on supporting school-based clinics -- individually and throughout the statewide network -- in their delivery of comprehensive healthcare.
This includes providing clinics:
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Resources
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Training
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Technical assistance
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Learning and practice cohorts
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This page includes resources for school-based clinics, and should you want more support, we also offer a variety of expert consultation and facilitation services for communities exploring, starting, and operating clinics.
Comprehensive Care
The goal of our clinical work is to assist school-based clinics to enhance their ability to provide comprehensive health care that is rooted in quality standards using evidence-based and promising practices.
Comprehensive care in school-based clinics includes:
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Primary care
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Behavioral health
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Oral health
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The Comprehensive Healthcare Integration Framework
Published in April 2022, under the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute, this framework offers an updated conceptualization of integrated care implementation from the original Framework for Levels of Integrated Care published by SAMHSA-HRSA’s Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) in 2013.
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Screenings for Prevention Recommendations
American Academy of Pediatrics’ Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care
This resource provides guidance on recommended screenings by age as part of preventive visits for patients from birth through age 21.
Confidential Care
National Center for Youth Law, 2021 Updated
School-based clinics are subject to and follow the same minor consent law required for all healthcare providers in Colorado. This chart provides an overview of Colorado’s minor consent laws and does not serve as legal advice. We recommend all school-based clinics review minor consent policies and procedures with their operating agency to ensure compliance.
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Messaging Strategies for Confidential Care
Youth Healthcare Alliance
This document provides important tips for framing and messaging about confidential care to communities and families as well as clarifying the need for confidential care (and why these laws exist in Colorado).
Trauma-Informed Care
Youth Healthcare Alliance strives to advance comprehensive care in school-based clinics while fostering trauma-informed organizations that are inclusive of healing-centered engagement frameworks. We support school-based clinics in modeling and providing care that recognizes the impact life events have on the well-being of staff, patients, and their community while also identifying and fostering strengths within all of these to achieve healthy outcomes. We work to advance the importance of team-based care to address social determinants of health and the need for health education and patient support as part of clinic services.
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Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Building a trauma-informed clinic requires multiple systems to work together and culture changes within the organizations involved. This website offers systems-oriented resources for healthcare entities, schools, and others interested in building and improving trauma-informed approaches.
The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement
Dr. Shawn Ginwright, Flourish Agenda
In this article, Dr. Shawn Ginwright introduces the concept of Healing Centered Engagement. It speaks to the limitations of trauma-informed care and offers Healing Center Engagement as a framework to add another dimension to trauma-informed work focused on strengths, agency, and empowerment.
