NYSBHA News

Whitney Young Health Blog 1/14/19 Whitney Young Health’s mobile health unit, Whitney on Wheels (WOW), has expanded their reach and added three new community locations to their lineup: Menands School District, Equinox, Inc.’s Transitional Living Program and Hope 7’s...

The Daily Gazette 1/14/19 School-based Hometown Health clinics at Schenectady High School and Mont Pleasant Middle School have expanded to reach more than 1,000 students and are continuing to add services. The clinics – opened in November 2016 as a partnership between...

Chalkbeat NY Reema Amin Oct 18, 2018 Dr. Viju Jacob of Urban Health Plan, Inc., along with immigrant advocates worry students...may not get the support they need under a new federal proposal that would make it tougher for immigrants to successfully seek green cards if...

NY's School-Based Health Alliance (NYSBHA) is preparing for its annual networking and education conference scheduled to occur October 25th and 26th at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown. This year's keynote is Dr. Steven Safyer, CEO of Montefiore Health in the...

Rochester Regional Health is trying a new approach to get more kids to get their flu shot. Health officials were at School 33 in Rochester Tuesday to administer vaccines and they brought along a K-9 friend, Lovie, a therapy dog, to help ease their anxiety over getting...

School-based health centers to benefit from new law Crain's Health Pulse, October 4, 2018 Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Wednesday that lets taxpayers donate to the state's cash-strapped school-based health centers by checking off a box on their personal...

Urban Health Plan, a network of community health centers, including 11 SBHCs in the Bronx, held a vision event at several schools to offer screenings to children in the medically underserved area. More than 150 children were screened, with many of them now receiving...

Suicide is the second leading killer of teens in the U.S. New York's simple but radical solution hopes to change that. Article

BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan saved $626 million in healthcare costs through an innovative patient-centered medical home model that focuses on personalized care....

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Health Center operates similar centers in Albany schools Times Union - Watervliet City School District students can now get their medical, dental, behavioral and mental health needs taken care of without ever having to leave school.  The district...

The Bassett Healthcare Network is cutting through distance and backed-up appointment books to get quick care for children who need mental health treatment. A telepsychiatry program, which started in May, is linking children seeing counselors in the network’s...

25 Percent of U.S. Students Have Undiagnosed Vision Problem, Center Will Help Additional 5,000 Children OneSight, the non-profit committed to closing the global vision care gap, announced the opening of a LensCrafters-sponsored, school-based vision center today...

A resolution governing the distribution of the $3,823,000 in new, one-time funds for school-based health centers in the 2018-19 State Budget was passed by the NYS Assembly. Data provided by the Division of the Budget and the NYS DOH was received by the Assembly and...

Advanced technology makes world-class care readily accessible in underserved communities "Today's youth face enormous physical, emotional, and mental health challenges," says Larry K. McReynolds, executive director, Family Health Centers at NYU Langone. "The demand...

School-based health clinics for teachers and their families can significantly lower a district's health-care costs and slightly reduce teacher absenteeism, a new study finds.  The study, conducted by the RAND Corporation and published in the Journal of Occupational...

Starting in the fall, more area districts will make space in their schools to house mental health counselors, as Northern Rivers, working with the Capital Region BOCES, looks to expand its services in area schools. Northern Rivers is in discussion with as many as 10...

A message from MHANYS CEO Glenn Leibman: With the recent suicide completions by celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain combined with the recent numbers from the CDC about the increase in suicide completions in the United States, there is greater detail being paid...

Donations to the Department of Education’s official charity are down more than 50 percent on Mayor de Blasio’s watch — and recently generated the smallest grant to city schools in more than a decade, The Post has learned. The steady drop in annual contributions to the...

NY Daily News By REUVEN BLAU JUN 10, 2018 article Excerpt(s): When Dr. David Appel was a child, he frequently heard his school nurse mother complain about the lack of proper medical care for students. Greta Appel, a Holocaust survivor, believed every student should...

Medium Shawn Ginwright, PhD May 31 article Excerpt(s): More recently, practitioners and policy stakeholders have recognized the impact of trauma on learning, and healthy development. In efforts to support young people who experience trauma, the term “trauma informed...