The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) seeks promising-, best-, and evidence-based practices, expertise, resources, and tools on a range of interdisciplinary topics for the 2012 National School-Based Health Care Convention, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico June 24 – 27, 2012.
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Presentation Tracks and Program Priorities
The 2012 Convention program is organized into eight workshop tracks, each to include a series of concurrent sessions. The theme New Directions for School-Based Health Care: Hot Topics for Our Future will be disbursed throughout the convention plenary sessions and tracks. Abstracts must address how the content applies to working in or in collaboration with school-based health centers (SBHCs).
Track 1.
Mental Health: specific to delivering mental health, substance abuse, and violence prevention services in a school setting across a continuum of care that includes mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, and treatment.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Mental health health needs of multicultural populations (frontier/rural, bi/tri-racial, GBTLQ, cowboy/cowgirl)
Evidence based interventions addressing substance abuse, trauma and loss, and/or school violence/bullying
School mental health capacity building (sustainable models, best practices, systems)
Mental health and student success
Mental health and primary care integration
Universal school-wide prevention strategies
Youth, family, and school engagement in mental health services
Track 2.
Primary Care, Oral Health and Nutrition: specific to delivering clinical services using a collaborative approach.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Clinical conditions (asthma, headaches, overweight, and child/youth diabetes)
Skin conditions
Practice controversies
Integrating SBHC services into school environment
Information technology (HIT, HIE, HER)
USDA reauthorization and new standards (school wellness policy, breakfast program, getting junk food out of school)
Implementation of oral health services in schools
Orthopedics/ sports medicine/ sport injuries/ concussions/ alcohol and substance abuse
Sexual Health
Primary care provider use of psychotropic drugs with children and youth
Track 3.
Evaluation and Quality: topics that assess, evaluate, improve, and sustain services, interventions, operations, and programs in SBHCs.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Evidence-based practice outcomes
Federal quality standards (e.g., Meaningful Use, Healthy, CHIPARA, HEDIS, Healthy People 2020)
Gathering, analyzing, and translating education and health data at the site level
Effectiveness of telehealth for consultation, practice management, care coordination, training
Information technology
Marketing quality of school-based health care (SBHC) services
Quality assessment and improvement (QAI), measurement, or evaluation (patient registries, improving health outcomes, practice management, SBHC services, tools and techniques, school mental health)
SBHCs and academic success
Training vs Quality Improvement
Track 4.
Operations and administration: topics that relate specifically to the management of SBHC program, including integration with school, fundraising, policies and procedures, etc.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Best practices in SBHC integration with education and external partners (HIS/tribal, FQHCs, LHDs, universities, etc)
Confidentiality challenges to SBHCs (HIPAA/FERPA)
Cost sharing strategies at the national, state and local levels
Financing SBHC (state, local, Indian Health Service/tribal, donor fund development, private funder relationships and strategies)
Information technology
Outreach and enrollment (SBHC administrative claiming)
Organizational development and business planning for resiliency and sustainability
Workforce development, recruitment, and retention (community health workers)
SBHC site visit (Albuquerque and Laguna)
Facilities (design and maintenance)
Track 5.
Policy and Advocacy: topics that relate to broad financing, funding, communications, public and government relations.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
Health and education reform: What’s new?
New directions in financing (SBHCs, rural/frontier health services, telehealth, IHS/tribal)
Vision for adolescent health care in the 21st Century
Patient Centered Home
SBHCs in the policy agendas of influential child health, education, social justice and/or welfare coalitions/organizations
Tailoring advocacy and policy messages to specific audiences
ACA regulations and SBHCs
Track 6.
Stakeholder Engagement: topics that relate successful multicultural skills and approaches for involving youth, families, school, and community supporters in leadership, negotiation, partnership development, and advocacy strategy for SBHCs at the local level.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Advocacy skills and strategies (youth, family, parent, and community stakeholders)
Best practices in outreach, collaboration, and engagement (youth, family, parent, and community stakeholder)
Communications and social media for youth, family, parent, and community
Connection between SBHCs and extended learning (afterschool programs, mentoring, cooperative education, internships, etc.) Involving stakeholders in projects (grant writing, service delivery decisions, health education)
Youth-adult partnerships
Youth, family, parent, and community stakeholders as leaders
Advancement of peer-to-peer approaches
Track 7.
Special Interest: Cultural Integration: topics that apply to working collaboratively with and/or providing services to diverse ethnic, racial, cultural, geographic, and societal groups.
Innovative SBHC strategies for rural health and frontier communities: telehealth, behavioral health, specialty care, staffing, EHR, nutrition, holistic care models, reproductive health, stakeholder engagement, transportation
Track 8.
Youth Development and Engagement: topics that relate to the development and engagement of high school youth who are interested in promoting healthy schools and communities. High school and college aged students are encouraged to submit proposals as well as adults. Workshops must be targeted towards a youth audience.
Priorities for workshop selection:
Health access and equity
Fundraising for projects in SBHCs
Communications and messaging
Leadership development
Adolescent health issues
Advocacy skills and strategies for youth to use to promote SBHCs
Competitive Selection Process
Workshop proposals and poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee for content, presenters' credentials, description, summary, and measurable objectives. Submission of an abstract does not guarantee participation in the convention program. The abstract review committee reserves the right to assign accepted abstracts to other tracks other than the one originally applied for.
The peer review process will provide a technical and programmatic evaluation of all abstracts by a panel of professionals who are considered topic area experts. The applications will be read and scored using the following criteria:
Presentation Title (5 points)
Presentation Description (15 points)
Meets word limit, spelling and grammar checked, and clearly written
Priority topic for the track
Current, timely and innovative, describes best practices and techniques
Wide audience appeal
Replication to the field
Presentation Summary (10 points)
Meets word limit, spelling and grammar checked, and clearly written
Describe the presentation
Ready for publication in preliminary program
Clear, measurable, and obtainable behavioral objectives (15 points)
Content Outline (10 points)
Detailed content listed for each objective
Content supports each objective
Instructional Methods (5 points)
Faculty assigned (5 points)
Time frame (5 points)
Presenters' credentials, expertise, and experience (10 points)
Inclusion of student, parent, new staff, board member or educator as a co-presenter (5 points)
Bonus Points:
NASBHC Member (5 points)
Focuses on new directions for SBHCs in health care reform (5 points)
Highlights best practices in Southwest (5 points)
Notification of applicants’ status will be made in January. All applications must adhere to the guidelines. Incomplete applications will not be considered. A separate application must be completed for each submission.
Workshop Presenter Responsibilities
In an effort to assure workshop description represents workshop presentation and to assure ample handouts are available to all, the workshop presenter will be asked to sign a presenter agreement contract. The workshop presenter agree(s) to the following responsibilities:
Speaker will be available for presentation on any of the convention dates. There is no negotiation with regard to placement on convention agenda.
Speaker will register for convention (NASBHC offers a reduced registration fee for speakers).
Speaker will provide NASBHC with computer files of a master set of handouts by deadline, or assume personal responsibility for providing an adequate number of handouts for their presentation.
Speaker will agree to audio recording of their session, possible live video streaming of their session, providing a computer file copy of their presentation and handouts at speaker check-in (on CD or jump drive), and placement of audio recording and handouts on a CD
ROM for distribution to conference participants.
Speaker will communicate any changes from the initial abstract to NASBHC staff.
Speaker will prepare their presentation in a format to be displayed on an LCD panel projector (presenter must bring their own laptop).
