# Presentation: 668648

## Linking Drug/Alcohol Prevention with Student Support Services

_*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

**Denver Public Schools**
**Presented by: Myriam de Leon and Rachel Hahn **

## 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

## DPS Demographics

- 57.3% Hispanic
- 20.39% White
- 18.08% African American
- 3.14% Asian
- 1.09% Native American

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

## Project Towards No Drug Abuse

**P**roject 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).

## Project Towards No Drug Abuse

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

## School Based Health Centers

- Celebrating 20 years!!

## 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

## Partners

- Arapahoe House
- Denver Health
- Denver Public Schools
- Mental Health Center of Denver
- St. Anthony Central Hospital
- The Children’s Hospital

## 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.

## 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

## 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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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

## 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

## 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.

## Hospitals

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

## Contact Information

*Myriam De Leon*
*	**720-423-2719*
*	**Myriam_DeLeon@dpsk12.org*
*Rachel Hahn*
*720-423-8021*
*Rachel_hahn@dpsk12.org*