Maine AAP School Health Series in Partnership with the Maine Department of Education

You can view all the Maine AAP School Health Series in Partnership with the Maine DOE recordings and slides below. Please note that these recordings can no longer redeem CME/Education Credits.

Agenda

October 1, 2024


2024 Maine Schools & Vaccines: What School Nurses & Providers Need to Know

  • Laura Blaisdell, MD, MPH, FAAP

Learning Objectives:

  1. Educate on current school vaccine requirements and medical exemptions
  2. Discuss communications between providers and schools
  3. Educate on vaccine access points for school vaccines

November 5, 2024


Understanding School Absences as a Risk Factor

  • Brian Youth, MD, FAAP
  • Jessica Anderson

Learning Objectives:

  1. Share data on relationship of chronic absenteeism with academic and health outcomes
  2. Gain a better understanding of what the health barriers are to attendance and learning
  3. Gain an understanding of how medical providers can positively impact a child’s potential by discussing school attendance

December 3, 2024


School Nursing in the Provision of Services to Students with Disabilities

  • Erin Frazier

Talk Objectives:

  1. Develop an understanding of the legal basis for IEP/504 - differentiating the protections under each.
  2. Clarify roles and responsibilities of healthcare providers along with school personnel (school nurses, school counselors, special education team, etc.).
  3. Foster effective communication between school personnel, families, and healthcare providers.

January 7, 2025


Keep Calm and Coregulate: A Trauma-Informed Response to Behaviors

  • Gretchen Pianka, MD, MPH, FAAP

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand how trauma responses arise in relation to common behavior problems
  2. Explore strategies to respond to your own nervous system to promote a coregulation space
  3. Utilize a step-wise problem solving approach to support a child’s nervous system regulation

February 4, 2025


Emotional Dysregulation in the School Setting

  • Kasey Moss, DO, MPH

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand factors that contribute to emotional dysregulation
  2. Identify strategies to help individual students
  3. Recognize need to educate all team members

March 4, 2025


Confidentiality for Minors

  • Jonathan Fanburg, MD, MPH, FAAP

Learning Objectives:

  1. To understand Maine laws as to what care minors can seek confidentially
  2. To try to apply it to the school setting
  3. To know when you can break confidentiality

April 1, 2025


Youth Suicide Prevention

  • Alyssa Goodwin, MD, FAAP
  • Shamera Simpson

Learning Objectives:

  1. Develop familiarity with suicide screening and recognition of Risk Factors, Protective Factors and Warning Signs in youth
  2. Identify youth suicide prevention resources and programs through community partnerships
  3. Promote equity in suicide prevention
  4. Discuss opportunities for collaboration between school and the medical home to enhance improved access to care

Resources:

Gizmo 4 Mental Health Resource