Resources for Youth-Serving Providers

Helping providers find the resources they need to serve young people

Find links to training, information, tools, and resources requested by youth-serving medical and behavioral health care providers.

Upcoming Webinars, Conferences, and Learning Opportunities

• December 17, 2025, 10-11 AM PT: Expanding Capacity: The Adaptive, the Technical, and the Tools

  • This webinar from Kids Mental Health WA and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital explores how individuals and organizations can strengthen their ability to grow impact and efficiency of efforts to address the complex challenges facing young people today. Participants will learn to distinguish between adaptive challenges—the deeper, people-centered issues that require shifts in culture, mindset, and relationships—and technical challenges—the systems, processes, and procedures that can be improved through practical solutions. It will explore both sides of this work and share tools, templates, and strategies that can help communities build understanding and action.

• March 3-6, 2026: 2026 Annual Meeting hosted by the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (Seattle, WA)

  • This conference will explore key competencies that help youth thrive in diverse environments, regardless of biological or social determinants. Professionals and caring adults can act as catalysts, activating each youth’s innate resilience to thrive, not just survive. Engage with experts, share experiences, and learn strategies to support youth in your community to create environments where every young person can flourish.

• March 19, 2026: Washington State Immunization Summit hosted by WithinReach (Virtual & Tacoma, WA)

  • This ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​full-day hybrid event will bring together public health professionals, health care providers, community leaders, and advocates to advance immunization efforts across the state. Individual registration is $75 for virtual and $200 for in-person.

• June 23-25, 2026: National School-Based Health Care Conference hosted by the School-Based Health Alliance (Washington, D.C.)

  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The National School-Based Health Care Conference is an opportunity to connect with hundreds of health care professionals, education professionals, youth, and advocates from across the country. Conference attendees will explore the innovative ways SBHCs serve their students and families in rural, urban, and suburban schools and communities by promoting wellness and health equity through engaging communities and fostering partnerships. 

• October 23, 2026: Save the date for WA SBHA’s 2026 Student Health Summit in Wenatchee, WA.

• November 2 & 5-7, 2026: Annual Conference on Adolescent Health hosted by the Adolescent Health Initiative (Detroit, MI)

  • The conference brings together an interdisciplinary community of health care professionals to share research and best practices aimed at improving adolescent-centered care. The conference will be held virtually on November 2 and in Detroit, MI, on November 5-7. Call for proposals open on December 12, 2025. Registration opens in June 2026.

Youth Friendly Care

• Youth at the Center: Effective and Equitable Support at Adolescent Health Care Clinics - Tauma-informed and healing centered care, youth friendly services, and sexual health care and education for youth-serving clinical providers. Free CEUs available until May 19, 2026. For more information, check out this one-pager (pdf).

• University of Michigan's Adolescent Health Initiative

  • Spark Training: Being Youth Friendly

  • Spark Training: Adolescent Brain Development 

  • Spark Training: Principles of Trauma-Informed Care in Adolescent Health Practice

  • Spark Training: LGBTQ+ Youth Series - Adolescent Health Initiative

  • Youth-friendly care

  • Quality improvement initiatives to improve youth friendly care 

• Other programs

  • Washington laws on gender affirming care and prohibited discrimination

  • Caring for Gender Diverse Youth training - Cardea Services and Seattle Children's Gender Clinic (CE available until October 20, 2025)

  • Education and Resources for Healthcare Providers - Seattle Children's Gender Clinic

  • Transhealth program - Washington State Health Care Authority

  • Birth control methods chart - 2024 Medical Eligibility Criteria recommendations of the CDC

  • ReproHH - free, confidential phone service offering evidence-based clinical information for all U.S. based health care providers

School-Based Health

• School-Based Health Center Program | Healthier Washington Collaboration Portal

• Welcome - Washington School-Based Health Alliance

Confidentiality and Minor Consent

Washington State Information

• Health care for minors | Washington Law Help- Washington Law Help and Northwest Justice Project

• Spark Training: Confidentiality Laws - Adolescent Health Initiative - Trainings, vignettes, and posters for Washington

• State & Federal Compendium — Teen Health Law

• Office of the Insurance Commissioner

  • Confidentiality Request Form (pdf) - universal form for patients to fill out and send to their health insurance plan to request confidentiality around a specific service.

  • Health information and your privacy - information about privacy rights as it relates to health insurance

• Health Care Authority 

  • Washington State Confidentiality Toolkit for Providers (pdf) 

  • Confidential coverage for confidential services: Family Planning Only Program

  • Tips for Maintaining Patient Privacy and Confidentiality (pdf) - Reproductive Health National Training Center

  • Call customer service if you or your patients have questions about privacy: 1-800-562-3022

• Department of Health

  • Find a provider for confidential services - Title X Clinic Locations

  • Privacy tools for teens: Resources to share with your young patients to help them understand their rights and what they need to do

    • Teens, Privacy, and Health: What you need to know digital poster (pdf)

    • How to: Keep your health care visit confidential video

General Information

• Spark Training: Confidentiality Best Practices - Adolescent Health Initiative - Best practices for confidentiality with teens in the health care setting

• Adolescent Health Care, Confidentiality - American Academy of Family Physicians

Billing Support

Medicaid and AppleHealth

• Washington State Health Care Authority 

  • Fee-for-Service (FFS) Billing: Billing instructions and coverage information in the Medicaid billing guide. Contact information is in the billing guide for additional questions.

  • ProviderOne Support at HCA: ProviderRelations@hca.wa.gov can assist with technical issues such as how to submit fee-for-service claims in ProviderOne, help with enrolling providers in ProviderOne, how to review the remittance advices (RAs) in ProviderOne, and connections to other HCA support. They cannot provide coverage details (what is and what isn’t covered) or help with managed care billing.

    • Learn ProviderOne

    • Enroll as a provider

    • ProviderOne Billing and Resource Guide

    • Provider billing guides and fee schedules

• Managed Care: Most people with Medicaid/AppleHealth are enrolled with one of the managed care organizations (MCO)

  • Managed care coverage questions and managed care billing questions should be directed to the appropriate Managed Care Organization (MCO)Contact information for each of the five MCOs are listed in Appendix B of the K-12 Medicaid BH Toolkit (pdf) If providers have trouble getting ahold of the MCOs, they can send an email to HCA managed care staff at HCAMCPrograms@hca.wa.gov

  • MCO Provider Resources - Association of Washington Healthcare Plans

  • For questions or concerns regarding MCO Provider training resources, contact AWHP@wahealthcareplans.org

Other Billing Resources:

• Medicaid K-12 Behavioral Health Toolkit (pdf) provides an overview of behavioral health services and associated billing that can be provided in the school setting.

• SBHC Grant Program Billing FAQ - DOH and HCA - November 5, 2024 (pdf)

• For schools billing Medicaid, see a recent FAQ from the CMS Technical Assistance Center as well as a breakdown of the FAQs from Healthy Students Promising Futures.

Behavioral Health

• Naloxone Finder helps Washington residents quickly locate free naloxone, a life-saving medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, including those caused by fentanyl.

• National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) | University of Maryland School of Medicine

• Adolescent Mental Health Data Fact Sheet - July 2023 (pdf)

• UW Medicine Harborview Behavioral Health Institute offers free, self-based trainings to enhance skills in cultural humility and ethical care in behavioral health. Many trainings have continuing education

• Back to School Kit for Technology from Mental Health America includes fact sheets for young people and adults, key messages, social media post examples, and guides to resources.

• Washington Partnership Access Line - Seattle Children's. The Partnership Access Line (PAL) supports primary care providers, including those in SBHCs, with questions about mental health care such as diagnostic clarification, medication adjustment or treatment planning. Our child and adolescent psychiatrists are available to consult during business hours.

• Information for Healthcare Providers on Behavioral Health - Washington State Department of Health

• Washington Regions - Office of Behavioral Health Advocacy - Use this website to find your area's Office of Behavioral Health Advocate

Trauma-informed/Healing-centered care

• TraumaInSight – NAMI - Self-paced training for youth-serving professionals

• Trauma-Informed Care Starter Guide 2025 update (pdf) - Adolescent Health Initiative

• Trauma-informed approach - Health Care Authority

• Trauma-Informed Care - Trauma Informed

• Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma - National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Suicide Prevention

• Crisis

  • Suicide Prevention: In Crisis - Washington State Department of Health

  • 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988, or chat at https://988lifeline.org/chat  

    • Línea de Prevención del Suicidio y Crisis: llama al 988 o envía un texto al 988, o chat via https://988lifeline.org/chat (en inglés)  

    • Deaf and Hard of Hearing: for TTY users, use your preferred relay service or dial 711 then 988 

  • Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 

  • The Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth): call 1-866-488-7386, text START to 678678, or visit TrevorChat (https://www.thetrevorproject.org) 

• Training

  • Suicide Prevention: Ending the Silence training program - National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health

  • Suicide Prevention Training for Health Professionals - Washington State Department of Health

  • Preventing Youth Suicide - National Association of School Psychologists

  • Conducting a Brief Suicide Safety Assessment - American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Mind4Health - Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board - 90-minute online training

  • QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Suicide Prevention Training - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• Resources and Tools

  • 5-Steps to help someone having thoughts of suicide - National Institute of Mental Health

  • Suicide: Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention - American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Strategies for Community and School Settings for Youth Suicide Prevention - American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Talking to teens: Suicide prevention tools and resources - American Academy of Pediatrics

  • THRIVE mental health and suicide prevention resources - Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

  • Zero Suicide - Education Development Center

  • Culture Forward: A Strengths and Culture Based Tool to Protect Our Native Youth from Suicide - Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health.

• Communications

  • Digital Shareables on Suicide Prevention - National Institute of Mental Health

Well-Child Checks and Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)

• Health Care Authority

  • EPSDT Program Billing Guide - billing guide for early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment activities. This is updated about quarterly.

  • Well-child checkups

• Department of Health

  • Resources for professionals and providers - Information, flyers, and brochures to download and share with patients and families. Includes a new toolkit for Extended Hours for Well Visits, as well as tips and tricks for increasing well visits.

  • Child and Adolescent Well-Care Visits - Provides more information on what a well-care check or well visit is, why it's important, and what to expect. This page is for parents and caregivers.

Telehealth

• Telehealth Resources - Washington State Department of Health

• TeleMental Health Guides for Infancy to Young Adults - Harborview Behavioral Health Institute

• Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center School-Based Telehealth Playbook - School-Based Health Alliance

• School-Based Telehealth Services - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Teen Dating and Violence Prevention

• Find Help - Washington State Department of Health

• Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

  • Prevention Basics - Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV)

  • In Their Shoes Teen Dating Trainings - WSCADV

    • For a FREE In Their Shoes virtual training, contact Alexis Bates at alexis.bates@doh.wa.gov.

  • Making a Mandatory Child Abuse Report: Best Practices (pdf) - WSCADV 

• Washington Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (WA SAFE)

• Sexual Violence Prevention - Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)

• Sexual Harassment in Washington K–12 Public Schools - OSPI

Vaccines

• AAP childhood immunization schedule: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published its own childhood immunization schedule since the 1930s. In 1995, that schedule was harmonized with the schedule published by the CDC. Now, for the first time in decades, the AAP schedule will once again diverge from the CDC’s to continue recommending vaccines based on the best available data. The AAP schedule maintains a routine recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine.

• Back to school vaccines: This blog post from DOH reminds parents and families to check their children’s vaccine status ahead of the new school year. The #FirstDayVax campaign is also a timely reminder that vaccines should be part of every back-to-school checklist.

• Vaccine Information - Washington State Department of Health (DOH)

  • Childhood Vaccine Program

  • Immunizations For Preteens and Teens (7-18 Years)

  • HPV at age 9

  • COVID-19 vaccine information

  • Adolescent Immunization Schedule at a Glance Poster (pdf)

  • Free DOH poster printing

• HPV Vaccine toolkit - Reproductive Health National Training Center

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For resources and information for teens and young adults, check out Teen Health Hub WA.

Don't see what you need? If you have ideas for resources or specific resource needs, email us at adolescenthealthunit@doh.wa.gov.