Linking DrugAlcohol Prevention with Student Support Services

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Linking Drug/Alcohol Prevention with Student
Support Services
Denver Public Schools Presented by Myriam de
Leon and Rachel Hahn

• Grant Support Provided by
• U.S. Department of Education Grant to Reduce
  Alcohol Abuse
• Safe Drug Free Schools 2007-2008 for
• Denver Public School Office of Safe Drug Free
  Schools

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Denver Public School (DPS) District

• Large Urban District- 73,399 students
• Elementary 73 K-8 Schools 15 Middle
  17 High 14
• Charter 19
• Alternative 7
• Other 6

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DPS Demographics

• 57.3 Hispanic
• 20.39 White
• 18.08 African American
• 3.14 Asian
• 1.09 Native American

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• 47,536 (64.76) students qualifying for
  Free/Reduced lunches all grades
• 76.9 graduation rate
• 14,450 (20) are English Language Learners

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Project Towards No Drug Abuse

• Project TND is an effective drug abuse prevention
  program that targets senior high school-age
  youth.
• Project TND focuses on three factors that predict
  tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use,
  violence-related behaviors, and other problem
  behaviors among youth, including    
• Motivation factors (i.e., students' attitudes,
  beliefs, expectations, and desires regarding drug
  use)  
• Skills (social, self-control, and coping skills)
  and  
• Decision-making (i.e., how to make decisions that
• lead to health-promoting behaviors).

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Project Towards No Drug Abuse

• Currently taught in 33 classrooms in DPS
• 650 students going through the program
• Training 50 new teachers in January

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School Based Health Centers

• Celebrating 20 years!!

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Foundations and Organizations that support the
SBHCs

• Herman and Ethel Horwich Trust
• Walter E. Lipe Trust
• Colorado Action for Healthy People
• CDH Chlamydia Control Project
• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of CO
• Bruce and Ginny Rockwell Trust Fund
• Jack Hogan Charitable Foundation
• Wells Fargo Bank of the West
• Century Health
• Caring for Kids
• CU School of Nursing
• Colorado Department of health
• General Services Fund
• Colorado Department of Education
• Centers for Disease Control
• City and County of Denver
• Colorado Department of Public Health and
  Environment

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Partners

• Arapahoe House
• Denver Health
• Denver Public Schools
• Mental Health Center of Denver
• St. Anthony Central Hospital
• The Childrens Hospital

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Arapahoe House

• Arapahoe House Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselors
  are in 10 high schools.
• Services include
• assessments and referral
• individual and group treatment
• prevention-education classes
• family consultation and therapy
• case management
• urine analysis
• school staff training.

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Arapahoe House (continued)

• School-based clients must
• Be a registered student at the school
• Be between the ages of 12 to 21
• Have a substance abuse problem causing social,
  educational or behavioral problems
• Be willing to attend treatment
• Currently, all Arapahoe Counselors are trained in
  TND

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Comprehensive on-site health care for students

• What services are offered?
• physical exams
• Immunizations
• Routine lab tests
• Prescriptions and medications
• Care for acute injury and illness
• Care for common concerns such as acne, menstrual
  and weight problems
• Pregnancy testing
• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted
  diseases
• Birth control information
• Coordination of medical and psychiatric
  conditions
• Individual, group and family mental health
  counseling
• Drug and alcohol education and counseling
• Parent and student health education
• Vision and hearing screening

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Denver Health

• Parent Involvement
• A parent/guardian must sign a consent form before
  student may use the health services.
• Staff encourages students to discuss their health
  care with their parents. However, parents are not
  routinely notified each time a student uses the
  services, except by a student request or when it
  is a serious health concern.

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Denver Health

• What does it cost?
• There is no charge for medical services to the
  students of family. Students will not have to pay
  co-pays, deductibles or fees.

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Denver Health

• Staff Involved
• Nurse practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Physician
• Mental Health Therapist
• School health technician
• Community health advisor
• School nurse
• School social worker
• School psychologist
• Substance abuse prevention counselo

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Denver Public Schools

• School Staff
• School counselors
• School Nurse
• School Social Worker
• School Psychologist
• School Resources for prevention
• The Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
  provides-
• Project TND
• Life Skills Program
• Second Step
• Financial support for schools doing prevention
  programming

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Mental health Center of Denver-School-based
services

• MHCD has mental health therapists based at 8
  elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 4 high
  schools
• Therapists provide short-term treatment to
  students
• Therapists work with school staff,
  parents/guardians, and other organizations to
  coordinate intervention and treatments services
  to students with emotional, behavioral or
  substance abuse issues.

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Hospitals

• Provide both financial and in-school staff
  support
• St. Anthony Central Hospital
• The Childrens Hospital
• Kaiser Permanente
• National Jewish Hospital
• Collaborates with schools to support children
  with asthma
• Provide education, inhalers, flu shots, annual
  follow ups, classroom support

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Contact Information

• Myriam De Leon
• 720-423-2719
• Myriam_DeLeon_at_dpsk12.org
• Rachel Hahn
• 720-423-8021
• Rachel_hahn_at_dpsk12.org