Choptank Health brings awareness to children’s mental health
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Contact: Lucie Hughes, Director of Communication, Choptank Community Health System, 410-479-2650, lhughes@choptankhealth.org
(Denton, Md. – May 5, 2022)
Choptank Health brings awareness to children’s mental health
On National Children’s Mental Awareness Day, Choptank Community Health System's health center and school-based health care teams partnered with Children's Mental Health Matters by wearing green on May 5 to show support and help raise awareness of children's mental health.
The awareness day is part of May’s designation as Mental Health Awareness Month, with health care workers, educators, parents, and more joining together to help spread the word that mental health is something everyone should care about.
Children’s Mental Health Matters is a Maryland public awareness campaign gathering hundreds of nonprofits and other community agencies from counties across the State of Maryland to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and provide resources to improve children’s mental health and reduce substance use. Champions are recognized for their services as mental health advocates and resources, with more at www.childrensmentalhealthmatters.org.
Choptank Health operates 32 School-Based Health Centers in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, and Talbot County Public Schools, offering medical and/or dental services for enrolled K-12 students. Behavioral health services will be available in Choptank Health’s School-Based Health Centers starting in fall 2022 for Caroline and Talbot County Public School students.
Choptank Community Health System provides medical and dental services in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot counties, with a mission to provide access to exceptional, comprehensive, and integrated healthcare for all. Choptank Community Health’s medical services include primary healthcare, women’s health, pediatrics, behavioral health, chronic health management, and care navigation, with new medical patients now being accepted. More information is at www.choptankhealth.org.
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Choptank Community Health System’s health center team members wore green to bring awareness to the importance of children’s mental health on May 5, including staff from The Denton Health Center. From left: Wanda Mixon, LGPC, Sherri Webster, LCSW-C, Nicole Layton, PSS, and Michelle LeRoux, Site Director.
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Choptank Community Health System's school-based health care teams partnered with Children's Mental Health Matters as a Child Mental Health Champion on National Children’s Mental Health Day by wearing green to show support and help raise awareness of children's mental health. From left: Choptank Health’s Director of Community Based Programs Chrissy Bartz PAC, MMS, Lorena Gracia. Dental and Migrant PSS, Debbie Ross, Admin. PSS, and Wanda Pomales, PSS.
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Choptank Health school-based health center’s team members Kelly Davis, CRNP, left, and Jennifer Yarber PSS, joined in wearing green on May 5 to bring awareness to the importance of children’s mental health. The awareness day is part of May’s designation as Mental Health Awareness Month to help spread the word about the importance of mental health.
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Members of Choptank Health’s school-based health team joined health care workers, educators, parents, and more by wearing green on May 5 to build awareness around children’s mental health. Pictured from left are school based health team members, Allison Baynard, CRNP and Dawn Dulin, PSS.