PROJECT

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Focus:

A project to evaluate school-based CHW impact on an education outcome (attendance).

About:

School-Based Community health workers have emerged as a way to bridge the gap between high healthcare and high social service needs. This project will evaluate the impact of school-based community health workers on student attendance. Using the current Telehealth ROCKS network to leverage robust healthcare-school-community relationships, we will evaluate the impact on the community health worker intervention in Southeast Kansas.

Funding:

This program is funded by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research award # R56NR021161

Components:

Feasibility trial to impact education outcomes

Community Health Worker in a rural school district

Clinical, community and social service partnerships to create a robust and comprehensive network.

Goals:

Aim 1: To evaluate the SB-CHW intervention impact on measures of family-level social determinants of health needs, utilization of school-based health center services, student functioning, and school attendance.

Aim 2: To evaluate whether the SB-CHW intervention and enhanced usual care (EUC) condition can be implemented feasibly, whether goals related to the recruitment/retention of participants (students, parent/guardian) are met, and whether measurement completion goals are met.