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By Marissa Rouselle

For those of us who work in school-based programming, the summer is a time to finish projects, reflect, catch up on reading, and start planning for the year ahead. This year’s NASBHC Convention, themed “New Directions For School-Based Health Care: Hot Topics For Our Future,” will help us do just that.

My co-social media fellows and I will be available to help you with all your social media questions and concerns. We will be working the NASBHC booth, Twitter feeds, and Facebook walls to make sure the hottest topics and information from each NASBHC workshop make it from conference room to smart phone or laptop. It is my hope that through the use of social media at this year’s NASBHC Convention we can share “hot topics” widely so that anyone who reads them will be able to utilize them and make a difference with the population they serve.

So let’s get started! If you don’t have a Twitter account yet, download the Twitter application to your smart phone and create one!

Go to the ‘@ Connect’ tab

and search for @nasbhc.

You can select the Twitter-bird ‘Follow’ tab so that tweets from @nasbhc will appear on your ‘Home’ timeline. You can follow me too @rissrousselle!

And be sure to use hash-tag #SBHC during the Convention so that any tweets you write will show up on the conference feed. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, fear not. Just be sure to find myself or another Social Media Fellow at the convention and we’ll get you started.

Marissa Rousselle, MPH, CHES is a Social Media Fellow at the 2012 National Assembly on School-Based Health Care Convention. She is Program Coordinator for the Changing the Odds Project (CTO) at Morris Heights Health Center (MHHC) in the Bronx, NY. CTO replicates the Wyman Center’s Teen Outreach Program®, providing participants with youth development and sexuality education, community service learning opportunities, and direct access to their School Based Health Center’s comprehensive medical care. TOP® is proven to decrease risk of unintended teen pregnancy, suspension, and course failure1.

1 Philliber Research, 2011. “Who Benefits Most From a Broadly Targeted Prevention Program”