AHRQ Innovations Exchange, University of Texas Medical Branch, 8/2010.
Summary
In collaboration with several community partners, the University of Texas Medical Branch provides remote mental health assessment and treatment services via videoconferencing technology and onsite case management to low-income, minority, and other students and parents in four school-based primary care clinics in the Galveston Independent School District. The program's goal is to improve student mental health status and behavior, which is expected to lead to a reduction in student absenteeism, drug use, and violent behavior in the schools.