Social Influences of Health Learning Collaborative (March-April 2025)

The varied needs of school-aged children and adolescents require health centers and their partners to implement comprehensive approaches that support overall well-being. Standardized screening and documentation tools help guide health centers and providers in delivering care that considers a broad range of factors affecting a child’s health.

These tools offer valuable insights into a patient’s overall well-being and potential challenges, such as stress, behavioral concerns, or unstable living conditions. They also serve as a foundation for developing effective support strategies and fostering positive relationships between providers and the children and adolescents they serve.

The School-Based Health Alliance welcomes applications from school-based and community-based health centers (Health Center Programs and Look-Alikes) that do not provide screening for children and adolescents. Multiple sites from a health center may apply, but each site must complete a separate application.

Each application must include an Administrator/Operations staff member or designee with the authority to build new partnerships and a clinical provider. Additional staff members, such as a community health worker, health educator, IT, or quality improvement, can also be included in the application.

Participants of the learning collaborative must:

– Participate in five 90-minute sessions over two months by engaging in learning collaborative
activities and discussions;
– Participate in office hours after sessions and throughout the course of the learning
collaborative;
– Share learned information with fellow employees;
– Create an action plan to implement screening strategies for children and adolescents in their health
center; and
– Complete periodic surveys to help improve learning collaborative activities for clinicians and
other partners.

Each two-hour session, held 3:00 – 5:00 pm EST, will include 60 minutes of presentation and discussion and 30 minutes of breakout rooms for working on action plans. There will also be 30 minutes held at the end of each session for office hours. The learning collaborative curriculum includes the following topics:

• Session 1: Screening Tools (Tuesday, March 18, 2025)
• Session 2: Bridging the Gap between School and Community Partnerships (Wednesday, March 26, 2025)
• Session 3: Adapting Clinic Workflows (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)
• Session 4: Building Community/Office Hours (Tuesday, April 8, 2025)
• Session 5: Evaluation and Sustainability (Tuesday, April 22, 2025)

Participants will need a quiet place set aside for each two-hour learning collaborative session. All sessions will operate through Zoom (see the Zoom Help Center for detailed system requirements), and participants are expected to have their cameras enabled during the learning collaborative.