School Based Integrated Care: Confidential and Accessible Behavioral Health for Young People

Presenter Name: Sarah Taylor, Michelle Maddex & Meg Yardley
 
Michelle Maddex, LCSW she/her

Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician II

Tiger Clinic | Fremont High School Campus

La Clínica de la Raza, Inc
 

Sarah Taylor, LCSW | she/her 

Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician

Havenscourt Health Center, CCPA Campus

La Clínica de la Raza

Meg Yardley, LCSW
Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician 
School-based health center of La Clinica de la Raza.
 

Presenter Bios:
Michelle Maddex, LCSW is an Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician in a school-based health center of La Clinica de la Raza. Michelle has worked in Integrated Behavioral Health Care for the past 6 years and appreciates that it is a very accessible, low barrier way for communities to access Behavioral Health Care who otherwise may not. Michelle is passionate about working with recently arrived immigrants and youth who have high levels of trauma exposure. Michelle is committed to bringing systemic issues into individual therapy and uses Narrative Therapy and other trauma informed and social justice oriented approaches to do so. Michelle is from a small town in Colorado and has lived in the Bay Area for the past 5 years. Outside of work she loves to hike with her dog, ski, and spend time outside with friends.

Sarah Taylor, LCSW (she/her) is an Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician in La Clínica de La Raza’s School-Based Health Centers. She has over ten years of experience working at the intersections of education and health care. Her work has centered on supporting children and families impacted by complex trauma and providing consultation & training to peer counselors, clinicians, and educators. Sarah has also been a leader in the development of policies and practices that prioritize the need for structural change, community care and responsiveness to the impacts of vicarious trauma on staff working in schools and health centers. She is passionate about reducing disparities in mental health care access, parenting from a place of curiosity & empathy, and dismantling the myth of scarcity. Sarah was born and raised near Chicago, IL. She earned her Master of Social Work from Portland State University in 2012. Sarah relocated to the Bay Area 8 years ago and resides on Ohlone land, also known as Oakland, with her partner, child, puppy and an abundance of plants. In her free time, Sarah enjoys rock climbing, running, cooking for friends, and going on adventures with her pup.

Meg Yardley, LCSW, is an Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician in a school-based health center of La Clinica de la Raza. She has worked in schools for over fifteen years; her work in Integrated Behavioral Health has included adapting trauma groups to serve newcomer immigrant youth, and developing a high school peer mentor program. Areas of professional focus include trauma and somatics, restorative justice, and youth development/ youth leadership. She is originally from New Jersey and has lived in Oakland since 2005. Outside of work she also enjoys writing, walking in the East Bay hills, and spending time with her kids.

Session Description:  
This training focuses on the specifics of IBH in school-based settings including the benefits of being at a school site, ways that we collaborate with school support teams, and best practices for working with youth at School Based Clinics.

Learning Objectives:
LO1: Identify benefits and drawbacks off School Based Integrated Care 

L02: Identify 2 youth centered therapeutic modalities used in School Based settings.

L03: Identify pathways for youth into school based IBH. 

 
Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by 3/1/22.

Continuing Education Information
 

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu
 

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.