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Baton Rouge – Hurricane Response Health Care Centers in Schools. Holley Galland MD MPH Sue Catchings, CHES. East Baton Rouge Parish School System. 46,000 students – baseline 88 schools 6000 registered after Katrina 5000 have attended 2 new schools just for evacuees. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Baton Rouge – Hurricane Response Health Care Centers in Schools
Holley Galland MD MPHSue Catchings, CHES
East Baton Rouge Parish School System 46,000 students – baseline 88 schools 6000 registered after Katrina 5000 have attended 2 new schools just for evacuees
Mental health servicesSafe and Drug Free Schools
Program(I CARE)
Run by educators Average time at a school = ½ to 1 day
a week focus – prevention of substance abuse
School Counselors Hired through I CARE Supervised by school principal In elementary – do skills sessions Middle and high – scheduling Want to do more counseling
Special Children’s Services Assessment teams Social workers and psychologists Focus on children with special
needs
Health Care Centers in Schools/CSH 8 school health centers
each has full time social worker just work in one school
school nurse program 36 nurses 20 school health assistants
Katrina Response: Show up at a shelter or field hospital Public Mental Health System
Meetings Teams in shelters – assessment, programs,
referral School meetings coordinated by I CARE
Players: all of the above plus BR Crisis Intervention
Issues: volunteers, assessment, curriculum, process, collaboration, school administration buy in
Products: intake forms for physical and mental
health used by counselors and school nurses
revised assessment tool from DISD follow up form CTSN 2 pager – in format revision psychological first aid packet for
schools
Plan: assessment by whoever can at
building level Follow up by counselors, mental
health providers Coordination by I CARE and the
collaborative
Baton Rouge Area Foundation – HCCS/CSH $100,000 for temporary MH workers We have 5 in the field using the DISD
revised assessment This is by invitation from the principal Consents required Forms kept confidential – school
nurse files available
Challenges/discussions General stress of everyone in
Baton Rouge State budget cuts New collaborations Behavioral health consents Ongoing funding Getting decent data for follow up