It's crucial that school-based professionals have the information and skills they need to understand how student behavioral health information can be shared and protected. By creating a strong network of school professionals that understand the federal health privacy laws that impact their students, schools will be equipped to address the rising need for behavioral health services and improve health outcomes.
To assist mental health professionals working in K-12 schools in understanding how the federal health privacy laws apply to student mental health information, the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network and the Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information (CoE-PHI) are hosting a 90-minute virtual training that will:
Please note: This learning session builds on the 2-part learning series, Federal Health Privacy Laws: Basics for School Professionals, held by the MHTTC Network and the CoE-PHI in Spring 2023. We encourage you to access the recordings from last year’s learning series and we look forward to sharing new clinical scenarios with you this year!
Certificates of attendance will be made available to attendees who attend at least half of the session. CEU's are not available for this session. Questions? Please contact Jessica Gonzalez at [email protected].
Abigail English, JD
Abigail English is a lawyer, researcher, and advocate for the rights of vulnerable young people. She provides consultation services to nonprofit organizations and public agencies on legal and policy issues in adolescent and young adult health including federal and state health privacy laws. She is currently a consultant for the National Center for Youth Law and for the Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. She also serves as Senior Policy Fellow for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM); in 2007-2008 she was President of SAHM.
Katy Stinchfield, MS, LPC, RPT
Katy Stinchfield is a private practice school mental health consultant and clinical supervisor working in rural community mental health in Oregon. She is the past Director of Behavioral Health Programs at the National School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA), where she led SBHA’s mental health and substance abuse prevention initiatives for schools and school-based health centers (SBHCs). Katy has worked with children and families in the mental health, education, and social services fields for over 20 years. She is both a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed School Counselor in Oregon, as well as a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).
Steve North, MD, MPH, FAAFP, FASAM
Dr. North is a practicing rural family physician with additional certification in adolescent medicine and addiction medicine. He is currently the Vice President of Medical Operations for Eleanor Health, a technology enabled outpatient substance use disorder program grounded in harm reduction and focused on the whole person. Additionally, he founded and serves as the medical director for the Health-e-Schools school based telemedicine program. Since 2011 Health-e-Schools has been providing access to health care for students and faculty at schools and currently serves ~120 schools in 11 predominantly rural North Carolina counties.
