Zhang E, Bellinger Skylar, Swails Leni, Punt Stephanie, Tepper Katy, Nelson Eve-Lynn
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.
University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA.
Rural Spec Educ Q. 2023 Jun;42(2):94-104. doi: 10.1177/87568705231152619. Epub 2023 Feb 7.
To address the daunting behavioral and mental health needs of Kansas' rural and underserved communities, Telehealth ROCKS (Rural Outreach for the Children of Kansas) Schools project partnered with school-based health centers, school districts, and special education cooperatives to provide a range of telebehavioral health intervention services and teletraining. This project used the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) telementoring framework to connect specialty providers with school/community providers for web-based continuing education and case consultation to support students with special education needs. Our team created the Function Friday for Better Behavior ECHO series to address challenging behaviors in schools, based on the concept of functional behavior assessment and function-based treatment. Part of the ECHO series came into being after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes how our ECHO series provided an effective mechanism for supporting school and community providers during the pandemic, and participating educators utilized skills as they transitioned from onsite education to the virtual learning environment with students.
为满足堪萨斯州农村及服务不足社区令人望而生畏的行为和心理健康需求，远程医疗助力堪萨斯儿童（Telehealth ROCKS，Rural Outreach for the Children of Kansas）学校项目与校内健康中心、学区及特殊教育合作社合作，提供一系列远程行为健康干预服务和远程培训。该项目采用社区医疗成果推广项目（ECHO）远程指导框架，将专科医疗服务提供者与学校/社区医疗服务提供者联系起来，进行基于网络的继续教育和病例咨询，以支持有特殊教育需求的学生。我们的团队基于功能行为评估和基于功能的治疗理念，创建了“周五功能改善行为”ECHO系列，以解决学校中的挑战行为。ECHO系列的一部分是在新冠疫情爆发后形成的。本文描述了我们的ECHO系列如何在疫情期间为支持学校和社区医疗服务提供者提供了一种有效机制，以及参与项目的教育工作者在与学生从现场教育过渡到虚拟学习环境的过程中如何运用相关技能。
