By Linda B. Sheriff, Deputy Director at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools We’ve all seen the headlines, if not witnessed it in schools – while student mental health challenges were high prior to COVID-19, there…
By Linda B. Sheriff, Deputy Director and Olga Acosta Price, Director at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools As anticipated by many, schools are now facing an increase in social, emotional, and behavioral challenges. The traumatic…
By Evelyn Frankford, Principal of Frankford Consulting, Senior Associate at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Children with family members who struggle with opioid addiction are as much victims of the epidemic as the adults themselves, not…
By Evelyn Frankford, Principal of Frankford Consulting, Senior Associate at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools Even though knowledge about prevention has burgeoned, it is not easy to find pipelines for getting this knowledge and attendant positive…
By Linda B. Sheriff, Deputy Director of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools What do you do to improve student outcomes when you are in charge of a school district of over 6,000 students, with more than…
By Linda Sheriff, Deputy Director of The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools The Fourth of July has always been one of my favorite holidays and it wasn’t until this year that I realized that it was because…
By Olga Acosta Price, Director of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools I am the very proud mother of a young man of color (and an elementary-age daughter of color- have to mention her so she doesn’t…
By John Rosiak, Principal and Founder of Prevention Partnerships The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools has a core focus on the important work of connecting schools to resources and organizations that can improve health outcomes of students.…
By Dr. Dan Leikvold, Superintendent, Lead-Deadwood-School District, Lead, South Dakota The Lead-Deadwood School District is a rural district located in the Northern Black Hills of western South Dakota. It has a K-12 population of around 710. The tourism, gaming, and…
By Linda B. Sheriff, Deputy Director and Olga Acosta Price, Director at the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools At our weekly staff meeting on Wednesday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day – we spent considerable time brainstorming…
