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This Section: School-based & School-Linked Services
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School-based & School-Linked Services - Overview
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School-based and School-Linked Services are a core component of comprehensive approaches and multi-intervention programs. There are a number of effective health, social, law enforcement, humanitarian and relief aid, child protection, food, youth employment and other services that can be delivered through schools to support learning, health, safety and social development. Coordinated or integrated student services in packages that wrap-around the students and their individual needs is vital, increasing their effect, reach and ease of use in the school setting. Providing these student support services in a timely, accessible and youth friendly manner is critical. Delivering health and other services in or near schools can also offer cost savings and increased reach/effectiveness. School-based services can be funded or delivered by health, social or other ministries or agencies or donors as well as by education ministries when they are focused on learning. School-based services include in-school clinics, offices, full-time, part-time, itinerant and emergency staffing and the provision/delivery of supplies and materials. School-linked services are defined and coordinated through partnerships with local clinics, hospitals, youth centres, physicians’ offices, police services, youth courts, agricultural organizations, youth employment services and others.
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School-based and School-Linked Services are a core component of comprehensive approaches and multi-intervention programs. There are a number of effective health, social, law enforcement, humanitarian and relief aid, child protection, food, youth employment and other services that can be delivered through schools to support learning, health, safety and social development. Coordinated or integrated student services in packages that wrap-around the students and their individual needs is vital, increasing their effect, reach and ease of use in the school setting. Providing these student support services in a timely, accessible and youth friendly manner is critical. Delivering health and other services in or near schools can also offer cost savings and increased reach/effectiveness. School-based services can be funded or delivered by health, social or other ministries or agencies or donors as well as by education ministries when they are focused on learning. School-based services include in-school clinics, offices, full-time, part-time, itinerant and emergency staffing and the provision/delivery of supplies and materials. School-linked services are defined and coordinated through partnerships with local clinics, hospitals, youth centres, physicians’ offices, police services, youth courts, agricultural organizations, youth employment services and others.
The treatment standards for such services to individuals should be similar to those for child and adolescent services provided in other venues such as clinics, hospitals and elsewhere. However, the scope, duration and intensity will need to be adjusted to fit with or within the school context. An important, over-arching tenet should be that the services are “youth-friendly”, - i.e. provided in a manner that is respectful of the concerns, convenience, preferences and needs of young people. In addition to providing the services, an over-arching goal of school-based and school-linked services should about also be to promote the basic literacy of students about their health, safety & security. This essential knowledge and skills will enable them to use primary and preventive health services over the life course, to understand safety procedures and regulations and to access various emergency and security protections and precautions. Sharing information and coordinated case management among education, health and other professionals about individual student health & other cases/problems is a complex policy/procedure issue. Informing parents about student health and social, developmental problems can be done but can also generate controversy or conflict. Treating or informing adolescents without the knowledge of their parents is also a complex policy/practical challenge. Coordination of professionals and services on individual cases is also complex. Coordination between workers in the education, protection, shelter, water and sanitation, health and psycho-social sectors is important in establishing learner-friendly, safe spaces in low resource and conflict/disaster affected areas, so donor organizations should require and support such joint actions and services rather than just narrowly focused single-issue services. Accurate student health, education, developmental and other records can also be a source of data for program assessments and monitoring student health & development on a population basis as well as monitoring/recognizing health promoting, safe, community, green or other multi-component approaches. Sources:
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The number of summaries completed or drafted in this section are listed below) - Overview
- Hearing - Dental - De-worming - School Feeding - Menstrual Health & Hygiene
- Refugees & Displaced Students - Emergency Trauma Services
- Support for Students with Disabilities - Tutoring/After School - Summer School
- School-Linked Clinics/Physicians' - School Nurses - School-based Physicians - Allied Health Services Professionals - Vaccinations & Immunizations - Education for Hospitalized Students - Administering Medications in Schools - Services for Pregnant Students
- Family Violence/Sexual Abuse - Child Exploitation/Trafficking - Services for Incarcerated Students - Services for Students in Group/Care
- School Psychology & Psychologists - Informal Supports in the Community
- Key Concepts/Insights/Issues
- How to Implement, Maintain, Scale Up, Sustain, Build Capacity, Adapt to Different Contexts, Leverage to Support Core Components.
- Implications of Ecological/ Systems Approach
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