Workshop: E4 - Partnerships for Coordinating Student Health Care: Lessons from Two Large Cities

By Sue Catchings, Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Centers in Schools, Baton Rouge, LA

Marylin Crumpton, MD, MPH, Director, Growing Well Cincinnati, OH, and I hope that you will join us for a meaningful conversation about how to build partnerships that bring more health services to students. We will push you to think outside the box as we brainstorm together, hopefully fostering many "Aha!" moments.

Consider Marilyn and I as pioneers who have done some work that we want to share with you and invite you to go beyond what we have done. Each of us, in Cincinnati and Baton Rouge, respectively, has brought a diverse group of providers together, collaborating for children. You will hear us to talk about mobile dentists, mobile optometrists, and how to integrate seamless care in primary medical and mental health services for children and their families. You will come to understand how we bring providers to school, but also, how we forge relationships in the community that help us fill the gap in services that we know exist.

School systems do have buses and never be stopped because the provider is in one place and the students are in another! We look forward to hearing about new ideas and hope that you will join us in what will be an exploration of what we have done and how you can make it better!

See you in Albuquerque,
Sue Catchings, Baton Rouge, LA