Impacting Social Determinants of Health ECHO (2024-2025)

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Short videos: 

• Importance of Partnership
• Education and Social Determinants of Health

Key Takeaways: 

• Telehealth ROCKS is a family-community-school program leveraging partnerships to meet foundational SDOH needs to advance whole family/student behavioral health and set them up for success. 
• The five broad SDOH domains identified through Healthy People 2030 have many resources available associated with nationwide efforts to improve health across the lifespan.
• Goal-setting and a continuous improvement mindset are strongly encouraged by the presenters throughout the series in order to maximize impact together.

Resources from the presentation: 

• Why Education Matters to Health
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network- Creating, supporting and sustaining trauma-informed schools
• From Classroom to Community: The transformative role of Community Health Workers (3-minute video)
• Article: The Mental Health of Minority and Marginalized Young People: An Opportunity for Action
• Cleveland Clinic overview of SDOH
• Healthy People 2030 SDOH page
• Arizona Self-Sufficiency Matrix
• HHS’s strategic Approach to Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity
• HHS’s Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Communities Across the Nation

This sessions discusses Health Care Access and Quality with Krista Postai, CEO, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and Craig Correll, Superintendent, Coffeyville, KS Schools. 

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Key Takeaways: 

• Unmet needs related to health care access and quality impact students’ abilities to learn and have success in school.
• Communication is key—between the school and the clinic as well as with parents, with other health care providers, and with the broader community. 
• The school and partner health care provider must clearly identify the goals for the school clinic and each organization’s respective role in its success.
• Prioritize continued communication between the school and health care organization with clear methods of communication between those with daily responsibilities related to the school clinic and strong relationships between leaders of the school and the health care organization. This will ensure its continued success and viability including allowing for needed changes or responding to new opportunities (such as managing Covid) where the school and school health clinic can better meet needs together. 

Resources from the presentation: 

• Cleveland Clinic SDOH overview
• Why Education Matters to Health  
• Healthy People 2030 
• CDC: Health and academics
• CDC: Health-Related Behaviors and Academic Achievement Among High School Students
• CDC: Healthy students are better learners
• Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF)
• CPSTF recommendations
• U.S Dept of Health and Human Services call to action: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs 
• National School-Based Health Alliance 
• Missouri: Show-Me School-Based Health Alliance 
• Kansas: School-Based Health Care
• Safety-net clinics/FQHCs
• Missouri-Primary Care Association
• Kansas-Community Care Network
• Rural Health Information Hub

This sessions discusses Education Access and Quality with Monica Murnan, Director of Community Support Services, Southeast Kansas Education Service Center - Greenbush and Leia Holley, Program Director and Parent, Families Together, Inc.

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Key Takeaways: 

• Vocabulary is important-keep it simple.
• Understanding the demographics of your community leads to better partnerships. 
• Awareness of partners "must haves" and "can't dos" will save headaches.

Resource links: 

• Cleveland Clinic: Social Determinants of Health
• Social Influences of Health and Education (SIHE)
• Why education matters to health
• Video: Education Access and Quality Domain
• HRSA: Education Access and Quality Executive Summary
• American Public Health Association: Addressing social determinants to ensure on-time graduation
• Rural Health Information: Education SDOH toolkit
• Healthy People 2030: Education Access and Quality objectives
• National Center for Education Statistics
• CHASE Your Dreams podcast: Excellence in Eldon- School district spotlight. Apple and Spotify. 

This sessions discusses Neighborhood and Built Environment with Matt Davis, Superintendent, Eldon, MO Schools, 

Angela DeWilde, Development Director, Avenue of Life, and Cameron Erlandson, Chief Communications Officer, Avenue of Life.

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Short videos: 

• Q&A with Eldon and Avenue of Life
• About Eldon, MO School district
• About Avenue of Life
• Eldon working on community needs impacts student success

Key Takeaways: 

• Strong schools and strong communities are required for student success.
• Successful students are just as important to the success of the community.
• High-quality and stable housing is an important prerequisite for student success. 

Resource links: 

• Eldon, MO School District website
• Eldon, MO Mustang Creed Video
• Avenue of Life website
• Avenue of Life annual report
• Rural schools assisting homeless youth
• KCUR article regarding Impact of housing instability on education
• Healthy People 2030 section on Neighborhood and Built Environment
• American Association of Pediatrics article on The Built Environment and Pediatric health
• Michigan State University article on School’s Neighborhood Environment Affects Academic Outcomes
• American Psychological Association article on how Living in violent neighborhoods affects children’s brain development (includes link to full research study)
• Article: Stanford Social Innovation Review: Collective impact

This sessions discusses social and community context with Stacey Tweedy, Southwest Regional Director, Kansas Department for Children and  Families and Erica Doherty, Family Support Specialist Liaison, Hutchinson Public Schools. 

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Short videos: 

• Short video: Tiered supports for relational health (3 minutes) 
• Short video: Social Capital (6 minutes) 

Key Takeaways: 

• Early and ongoing relational health and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments lay the foundation for building social capital.
• Youth thrive when their interests are connected to opportunity though supportive relationships. 
• Put in the work to build a relationship and understand common goals and needs. This is the first step in supporting children and families.

Resource links: 

• SEARCH Institute Resource Hub
• AAP Position statement on preventing toxic stress
• AAP Building Healthy Relationships with Social Media
• Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence
• Speaking of Psychology: How to help kids navigate friendship, with Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD podcast
• Raised with Love & Limits: Safe Secure Nuring Relationshps
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 

This sessions discusses economic stability with Kayla Schmidt, Director of Operations, HCC Network. 

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Q&A with HCC Network

Key Takeaways: 

• Economic stability impacts the entire family. Steady employment means the family is less likely to live in poverty and more likely to be healthy. 
• Poverty negatively impacts children and families through four pathways, with a number of strategies mitigating negative short- and long-term outcomes.
• We can impact Social Determinants of Health issues in our communities by continuing the conversation and forming partnerships. 

Resources: 

• HCC network
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Measuring the Value of Education
• KansasWorks
• MissouriWorks 
• Kids Count Data Center
• Basic Economic Security in Kansas: How Much Income Do Working Adults Need?
• Kansas' Economic Outlook After Recent Jobs Report
• Basic Economic Security in Missouri: How Much Income Do Working Adults Need?
• Redd, Z., Thomson, D., & Moore, K.A. (2024). Poverty matters for children’s well-being, but good policy can help. Child Trends. DOI: 10.56417/3401c1202m. 
• Frontline Documentary: Poor Kids