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From: Cathryn H. District: North Middlesex Regional Schools

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From: Cathryn H. District: North Middlesex Regional Schools

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Vision: To empower school nurses to fulfil their purpose in providing impactful health care for the students throughout our district and the Commonwealth, through advocacy, education, collaboration and the provision of effective resources.

Health Area Focus: ELL/Homeless or marginally homeless - increasing assessments and connections to services needed in the community.

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Vision: Make sure that all students have access to immunizations, insurance and a medical home.

Health Area Focus: Immunization compliance (this will overlap homelessness and ELL students).

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From: Rebecca M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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From: Rebecca M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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Vision: To empower and encourage school nurses in my district to provide the highest quality care for all students.

Health Area Focus: We will focus on conducting Comprehensive Health Assessments on our ELL, Homeless, and Marginally Homeless students to identify any existing gaps in healthcare and collaborating with families and community partners to address those gaps to positively impact health outcomes.

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Vision: My purpose is insure that the nurses have the support necessary to provide excellent healthcare to the students in Northbridge.

Health Area Focus: Dental Awareness. To provide dental education to all parents and guardians to promote dental care for all students through the use of their own providers, the Mobile Dentist, and referrals to new providers.

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From: Rebecca M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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From: Rebecca M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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Vision: To ensure that comprehensive health needs assessments are conducted on our Homeless/Marginally homeless and ELL populations in order to identify any gaps in healthcare access in these populations and provide resources.

Health Area Focus: Homeless/Marginally homeless and ELL populations

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From: Karen Y. District: Blackstone-Millville Regional School District

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From: Karen Y. District: Blackstone-Millville Regional School District

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Vision: To work collaboratively to promote racial and health equity and cultural responsiveness in the health office by assessing BIPOC and ELL students to determine any unmet health needs.

Health Area Focus: We will focus on identifying the health needs of our BIPOC and ELL students by assessing physical and immunization data, screenings, health insurance, and medical/dental care to address any gaps in care.

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From: Amy M. District: Wachusett Regional School District

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From: Amy M. District: Wachusett Regional School District

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Vision: Explore and improve how digital advancements can streamline processes, improve record-keeping, and facilitate communication to ensure efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

Health Area Focus: We will focus on improving documentation in the SNAP software program. We will identify gaps in the documentation process to improve the accuracy of our data. The documentation improvements focus will be on school health screenings and referrals.

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Vision: Feel more confident in my ability to deliver quality health services to my students.

Health Area Focus: chronic absenteeism

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From: Ally L. District: Ashburhnham Westminster Regional School District

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From: Ally L. District: Ashburhnham Westminster Regional School District

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Vision: Coordinate in a unified manner with the multiple interdisciplinary teams within the district to provide a comprehensive school health program that facilitates the maximum opportunity for individual students to access the resources necessary for long-term success.

Health Area Focus: Improve the percentage of Individualized Healthcare Plans for our students with specialized medical needs.

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Vision: I dedicate to be knowledgeable on all aspects of school nursing. I, myself, continue to confer with my other school nurses to collaborate best practices for our district. I try to encourage my high school students to remain in school even when they don't feel 100%.

Health Area Focus: Improving Vison/Hearing Screenings and access to our ELL students.

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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Vision: Improve healthcare access and services for students/families within the school district/schools and community by supporting and providing the SN's and support personnel with resources toward coordinated care; resulting in increased school attendance & readiness for learning.

Health Area Focus: Improved healthcare evident through needs met - resulting in increased attendance / decreased chronic absenteeism. Collective and coordinated collaboration within the schools/district and community.

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional Schools

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional Schools

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Vision: To support and empower my district's nurses to provide quality and equitable health care services to our student population.

Health Area Focus: We will be focusing on increasing the percentage of students who follow up with a referral after a failed screening.

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From: Noelle F. District: Shrewsbury Public Schools

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From: Noelle F. District: Shrewsbury Public Schools

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Vision: To empower the nurses on my team to recognize their unique strengths and use their many skills to foster an environment where ALL students feel supported and can be successful.

Health Area Focus: chronic absenteeism

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From: Lisa A. Z. District: Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School 

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From: Lisa A. Z. District: Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School 

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Vision: To improve attendance by promoting attendance awareness for academic success.

Health Area Focus: Chronic absenteeism

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From: Rebecca A. M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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From: Rebecca A. M. District: Gardner Public Schools

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Team's Vision: Our vision is that by reducing healthcare gaps we will improve academic outcomes.

District Demographic Group: Our ELL demographic populations are:Hispanic/Latino,White NH,African American/Black,NH,Asian,Multi Race NH, and NA/AN

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From: Ann R.L. District: Worcester Public Schools

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From: Ann R.L. District: Worcester Public Schools

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Team's Vision: To nurture a professional practice within our school that respects professionalism and accountability.

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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Vision: I envision a school environment where every student, regardless of socio-economic background, has equitable access to comprehensive healthcare and immunizations. To achieve this vision, nurses will identify health needs of our marginalized students by assessing their healthcare and immunizations needs and then providing access to community resources.

Health Area Focus: ELL, Homeless, Refugee, and Marginalized students.

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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Team's Vision: To improve health equity to our marginalized students by improving health access and immunization needs

District Demographic Group: ELL, Homeless, Refugee, and marginalized students

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Team's Vision: Create ways to improve efficiency of the screening and referral process.

District Demographic Group: African/Black, Black Hispanic, Asian, Hispanic, White-non Hispanic, ELL, Homeless, Multi-Race/non-Hispanic

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools 

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools 

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Team's Vision: All students will attend school regularly - resulting in achievable optimal health and educational successful outcomes

District Demographic Group: ALL groups with the exception of Native American Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander

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From: Lori J. District: Northbridge Public Schools

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From: Lori J. District: Northbridge Public Schools

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Team's Vision: All students will have access to dental care. All parents/guardians will have education re: the importance of dental health

District Demographic Group: No education has been done with parents.

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School 

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School 

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Team's Vision: Mandated Screenings will be completed early and all students who need to see a specialist, will.

District Demographic Group: We are represented by all demographic groups.

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From: Ally L. District: Ashburnham Westminster Regional Schools

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From: Ally L. District: Ashburnham Westminster Regional Schools

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Team's Vision: Improve the percentage of Individualized Healthcare Plans for our students with specialized medical needs.

District's Demographic Groups: White, Hispanic or Latino, Native American or other Pacific Islander, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian

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Team's Vision: The Wachusett Regional School Nurse Team would like to see an increase in complete referrals for School Health Screenings.

District Demographic Group: ELL, low-income, data was based on last year referral returns for all of the student population

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Team's Vision: All students and their families will have access to high quality health information and services that is available in their prim

District Demographic Groups: form uploaded to Padlet

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From: Lisa Z. District: Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School

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From: Lisa Z. District: Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School

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Team's Vision: To educate students and parents of the importance of attendance for academic success.

District Demographic Groups: All demographic groups are being monitored in our school.

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From: Noelle F. District: Shrewsbury Public Schools

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From: Noelle F. District: Shrewsbury Public Schools

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Team's Vision: All families will understand the value of school attendance and all students will be in school consistently

District Demographic Groups: All of the groups noted

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Team's Vision: Standardized PK-12 attendance process that meets needs of students and families and in is alignment with WPS and state mandates

District Demographic Group: African American, Asian, Hispanic, White, Multi-Race, ELL

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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Team's Vision: To identify and improve all students immunization and screening referral needs.

District Demographic Group: All demographic groups are present in my district.

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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From: Catherine G. District: Leominster Public Schools

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Useful Resources and Tools: We are working on two projects - Immunizations - The resource nurse, translators, a new program called School Status, and the Board of health.

Referrals - Education of staff, most important - communication with parents in their preferred language, also, creating a list of optometrists/ ophthalmologists and asking them what they provide and if they would be willing/able to see our students.

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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From: Jamy G. District: Weston Public Schools

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Useful Resources and Tools:

Availability and buy-in of admin team

Time and space for meetings

Tech support

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Useful Resources and Tools: Collaboration, IT, Google docs, nursing coverage, templates

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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From: Pamela R. District: Fitchburg Public Schools

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Useful Resources and Tools: Attendance works resource & the BU Shield - Leading for Equity Improvement workshops and references shared

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From: Jamy G. District: 
WESTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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From: Jamy G. District: 
WESTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Vision: To inspire school nurses to lead within the educational setting through partnership and advocacy with students, staff and families.

Health Area Focus: Chronic absenteeism

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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From: Melissa O. District: Narragansett Regional School District

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Useful Resources and Tools: Substitute nurses, Google Sheets, SNAP, IT support with emailing/texting in preferred languages, Google Doc with providers in our area with contact information to share with families, Fax Machine, Administration Support

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Useful Resources and Tools: Board of health, collaboration with local urgent care for free physicals and reduced immunizations

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From E. Myriah Z. District: Nashoba Regional School District

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From E. Myriah Z. District: Nashoba Regional School District

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Team's Vision: Students at Nashoba Regional School District know themselves (minds, bodies and soul) and what it is for their self to be health

District Demographic Group: This CQI project didn't collect student data. NRSD's student body of 3051 is predominantly white, non-Hispanic (81.8%)

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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From: Jessica C. District: Harvard Public School

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Team's Vision: To improve health equity to our marginalized students by improving health access and immunization needs

District Demographic Group: ELL, Homeless, Refugee, and marginalized students

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From: E. Myriah Z. District: Nashoba Regional School District

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From: E. Myriah Z. District: Nashoba Regional School District

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Vision: To guide, support and grow school nursing practices within Nashoba Regional in support of providing whole-child, evidence based care for ALL students.

Health Area Focus: We will be focusing on providing improved school nursing care for our LGBTQ+ population.