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Family and Child Wellness: Creating a Healthy School Environment

Learn how schools can make a difference in the well-being of children and families. Discover the benefits and coverage of HealthCheck, a comprehensive medical examination program for students. Explore existing supports for school wellness.

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Family and Child Wellness: Creating a Healthy School Environment

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  1. Family and Child Wellness Rebecca King, Coordinator WVDE-Office of Healthy Schools

  2. What is Wellness? • Includes the Whole Child; • the Family; and • Social, Emotional and Physical health.

  3. Readiness to Learn

  4. Top 5 Medical Diagnoses/Procedures

  5. What Do We Know? It takes a village with multiple skills and resources to make a successful difference in the life of a child!

  6. CDC-Coordinated School Health

  7. How can Schools Make a Difference? • Working with the Medical and Dental Home of each student for school entry requirements such as HealthCheck comprehensive examination and immunizations • Encouraging students and families to schedule annual well child and biannual dental visits (Example: PreK Child Accomplishment Summary) • Bringing the families and communities to schools (Full-Service Schools Approach including School-Based Health Center Services) • Keeping the appropriate school health, medical and dental providers in the loop, IEP Team meetings, SAT, sensory impairment concerns, etc.

  8. (add HealthCheck Diagram here)

  9. What is a HealthCheck? Who is eligible? Children birth through 20 years of age who have an active Medicaid, CHIP and PEIA card. Services Provided Initial and periodic health check-ups completed by a medical provider including, but not limited to, the following: • physical examination • dental, hearing and vision testing • immunizations • laboratory testing, including blood lead  • developmental assessment • medical history • referral for further diagnostic and treatment services.

  10. WHY a HealthCheck???? • Establishes a MEDICAL HOME for each student. • Enable an annual comprehensive physical. • Establishes a seamless health record from the student/parent to the medical provider and school. • Forces collaborative between a child’s most significant growth factors the school, parents and the medical home.

  11. Benefits, Cost and Coverage… • Benefits: • Establish a medical home • Partnerships • Cost: • Usually no cost since this is a preventative care visit if any cost then MINIMAL copay with some private insurances. • WVDHHR has volunteered to assist with co-pay if needed per family request.

  12. Benefits, Cost and Coverage… • Coverage: • In 2008/09, out of 15,000 kindergarteners Healthchecks ONLY 30 were truly uninsured requiring cost coverage per WVCHIP Administrative funds. • In 2009/10, out of approximately 24,000PreK and Kindergarten students only 17 were truly uninsured requiring cost coverage per WVCHIP Administrative funds. • -In 2010/11 there were no request for uninsured.

  13. What are the existing supports?

  14. 2011/12RESA-Regional School Wellness Focus Areas • Physical Activity (Let’s Move) • Nutrition • Health Education Assessment • FitnessGram • Mental Health • Suicide • Bullying • School-Based Health Centers • Teen Pregnancy • Tobacco • Diabetes

  15. Coordinated School-Public Health is a Team Work approachthrough Partnerships which enableschools to meet the wellness needs of students and families

  16. Rebecca Kingrjking@access.k12.wv.us(304)558-8830 Thank You!

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