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:
- Educate on current school vaccine requirements and medical exemptions
- Discuss communications between providers and schools
- 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:
- Share data on relationship of chronic absenteeism with academic and health outcomes
- Gain a better understanding of what the health barriers are to attendance and learning
- 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:
- Develop an understanding of the legal basis for IEP/504 - differentiating the protections under each.
- Clarify roles and responsibilities of healthcare providers along with school personnel (school nurses, school counselors, special education team, etc.).
- 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:
- Understand how trauma responses arise in relation to common behavior problems
- Explore strategies to respond to your own nervous system to promote a coregulation space
- 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:
- Understand factors that contribute to emotional dysregulation
- Identify strategies to help individual students
- Recognize need to educate all team members
March 4, 2025
Confidentiality for Minors
- Jonathan Fanburg, MD, MPH, FAAP
Learning Objectives:
- To understand Maine laws as to what care minors can seek confidentially
- To try to apply it to the school setting
- To know when you can break confidentiality
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April 1, 2025
Youth Suicide Prevention
- Alyssa Goodwin, MD, FAAP
- Shamera Simpson
Learning Objectives:
- Develop familiarity with suicide screening and recognition of Risk Factors, Protective Factors and Warning Signs in youth
- Identify youth suicide prevention resources and programs through community partnerships
- Promote equity in suicide prevention
- Discuss opportunities for collaboration between school and the medical home to enhance improved access to care
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