TY - JOUR
AU - L. M. Hopson
AU - C. Carlson
AU - M. B. Berryhill
AU - D. M. Casper
AU - K. Rincon
AU - M. Crang
AU - K. Webster
AU - G. Abura-Meerdink
AU - L. Jones
AU - A. McGee
AU - R. Quick
A1 - 
AB - PURPOSE: Rural communities often have a high incidence of medical and behavioral health problems along with more limited access to care. This paper describes an innovative approach to providing integrated care in rural school-based health clinics in which graduate students serve as behavioral health interns. The purpose of this manuscript is 1) to describe a model for providing school-based integrated health services in a rural community and 2) to evaluate services provided by graduate interns embedded in school-based clinics. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Graduate interns completed a session checklist to track services provided in each session and collected data from participating students who received behavioral health services. Students completed the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) after each session. Repeated measures MANOVAs were used to analyze the data for changes over time. RESULTS: Services provided most often by interns included assessment, engagement, positive reinforcement, coping skills, goal setting, and clinical intervention. The data suggest that students receiving at least three sessions improved over time on self-reported wellbeing. DISCUSSION: The results demonstrate the feasibility of providing integrated health care via school-based clinics that rely on graduate internships for behavioral health services. Challenges to implementing and sustaining school-based integrated health clinics are discussed. CONCLUSION: The ongoing challenges to meeting the medical and behavioral health needs of rural communities call for innovative approaches to providing integrated care. The clinics described here responded to these challenges through teamwork and strong university-community partnerships.
AD - The University of Alabama School of Social Work, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.; The University of Alabama College of Human Environmental Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.; Ginn Group Collaborative, a Division of MSW Management, LLC, Milton, KY, USA.; State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA.; Pickens County Primary Care, Reform, AL, USA.
AN - 41311018
BT - J Evid Based Soc Work (2019)
C5 - Healthcare Disparities; Education & Workforce
DA - Nov 27
DO - 10.1080/26408066.2025.2593475
DP - NLM
ET - 20251127
JF - J Evid Based Soc Work (2019)
LA - eng
N2 - PURPOSE: Rural communities often have a high incidence of medical and behavioral health problems along with more limited access to care. This paper describes an innovative approach to providing integrated care in rural school-based health clinics in which graduate students serve as behavioral health interns. The purpose of this manuscript is 1) to describe a model for providing school-based integrated health services in a rural community and 2) to evaluate services provided by graduate interns embedded in school-based clinics. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Graduate interns completed a session checklist to track services provided in each session and collected data from participating students who received behavioral health services. Students completed the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS) after each session. Repeated measures MANOVAs were used to analyze the data for changes over time. RESULTS: Services provided most often by interns included assessment, engagement, positive reinforcement, coping skills, goal setting, and clinical intervention. The data suggest that students receiving at least three sessions improved over time on self-reported wellbeing. DISCUSSION: The results demonstrate the feasibility of providing integrated health care via school-based clinics that rely on graduate internships for behavioral health services. Challenges to implementing and sustaining school-based integrated health clinics are discussed. CONCLUSION: The ongoing challenges to meeting the medical and behavioral health needs of rural communities call for innovative approaches to providing integrated care. The clinics described here responded to these challenges through teamwork and strong university-community partnerships.
PY - 2025
SN - 2640-8066
SP - 1
EP - 15+
ST - Implementing and Sustaining Rural School-Based Integrated Health Services Through University-Community Partnerships
T1 - Implementing and Sustaining Rural School-Based Integrated Health Services Through University-Community Partnerships
T2 - J Evid Based Soc Work (2019)
TI - Implementing and Sustaining Rural School-Based Integrated Health Services Through University-Community Partnerships
U1 - Healthcare Disparities; Education & Workforce
U3 - 10.1080/26408066.2025.2593475
VO - 2640-8066
Y1 - 2025
ER -