Coverage/Benefits:

Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) Clients:

• Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) clients corona virus (COVID-19) FAQ
• See if you are eligible for Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) or other coverage

Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) Members:

• Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) Program eligibility during COVID-19 outbreak

School Employee Benefits Board (SEBB) Members:

• School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) Program eligibility relating to school closures

Providers:

Telehealth:

• HCA offers limited no-cost telehealth technology licenses to providers
• Apple Health telemedicine brief for COVID-19
• Family Planning Only Program telemedicine services offered during the COVID-19 outbreak

Behavioral health:

• Department of Health behavioral health agency COVID-19 related waiver regarding face-to-face requirements
• Opioid Treatment Programs corona virus (COVID-19) FAQ
• COVID-19 and prescribers of buprenorphine-containing products FAQ
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) COVID-19 webpage

Webinars:

• Free, Understanding Trauma Webinar Series, Individual
• Online Course: Ethics in Prevention: A Guide for Substance Abuse Prevention Practitioners – 15% off with code Discount2020Ethics

All welcome and invited to attend! Mark your calendars: Friday, April 17, 2020. (Postponed) The meeting is 12pm-2pm, with a light lunch, served to start at 11:30am. Please RSVP 360-370-7516.

 Our meetings often involve a group activity to get us up and moving and sharing. Please join the conversation! We meet at the Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church, one of our prevention partners, thank you for sharing your space!

https://www.cnn.com/…/…/child-poisoning-wellness/index.html…

Washington Poison Center

“5 of our fellow poison centers contributed to this important study on child poisoning by prescription medications– more than half of these poisonings occurred when medications were taken out of their original containers.

Please mark your calendars and join us on Friday, February 21, 2020, for our Board of Trustees meeting. Everyone welcome and encouraged to join the conversation around community prevention efforts. RSVP for a light lunch served at 11:30am. 360-370-7516. Meeting runs 12pm-2pm. We thank our prevention partner, Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church for sharing their space for our meeting.

ONLINE SURVEY ENGLISH

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SAJUSAJU2019EN

ONLINE SURVEY SPANISH

https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/SAJUSAJU2019SP

Please help support prevention by taking 3-5 minutes to complete the short online survey!  Community perspective and perceptions are a very important aspect of our prevention work where our primary focus is having each and every child in our community reach his or her full potential.

Annually, the San Juan Island Prevention Coalition, as a Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (CPWI), participates in the WA Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery’s annual survey that is a required component for assessment and evaluation for the state and federal funding that supports our community-based prevention efforts!

The deadline is December 14th, 2019!

Please join us for our last meeting of the year! A celebration of good works and community collaboration! A light lunch served at 11:30 am, please RSVP, so we may have enough for everyone, 360-370-7516. The meeting is at 12noon-2pm. We thank our prevention partners, the Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church, for sharing their space. Hope to see you there!

Periodic Message

We are excited to share our Rock Solid Youth Team of the San Juan Island Prevention Coalition (SJIPC) and our school photographer; Mark Gardner printed valuable resources on the back of all Middle and High student ids. We are serving our Friday Harbor Middle School (FHMS) and Friday Harbor High School (FHHS) students, nearly 475! An idea in the making for a few years finally becomes a reality with the collaboration of community members.

Rock Solid wanted to put essential resources in the palm of their peers, and the idea to print these resources on the back of every FHMS and FHHS school student ID was born! With the permission of their Principal, Rock Solid started to explore ways to make this happen. Thankfully, one of our SJIPC Board members, Court Bell, a former Principal himself, was supportive of the idea and offered to help fund such a venture. Mark Gardner found a photo lab that was able to print both sides of the student ids instead of just the usual one side. This ability eliminated the need to buy an expensive printer for the project and thankfully reduced the cost, as well.

Mark Gardner also stepped up to absorb the costs of these extra printing fees, as he, too, sees the benefit of our youth having these resources for Suicide Prevention and Escape the Vape hotlines and chat-lines readily available for our students. Rock Solid acknowledges Court Bell because he was the first one willing to financially support this idea when Rock Solid shared it at a Board of Trustees meeting last summer, and it got the wheels in motion.

Rock Solid has learned, it only takes one person to believe in your idea to help build momentum. We are also grateful to our school photographer, Mark Gardner, for his time, dedication to this project, and financial support to help us achieve this goal. We couldn’t have done this without Mark’s full support! So, when you see Mark, smile and say thank you. Mark has been our school district’s photographer for many years and has a photo studio in Anancortes. photographybymarkgardner.com