SAMHSA School Health Privacy Webinar

The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services has shared a webinar that the SAMHSA-funded Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network and the Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information (CoE-PHI) are hosting: Making Sense of Health Privacy Laws: HIPAA and FERPA for School-Based Health Professionals. 

It will be a 90-minute virtual training on Thursday, September 19 at 1 pm EST to help school mental health professionals and others understand how the federal health privacy laws (e.g., HIPAA, FERPA) apply to student mental health information.

The link can be found here: https://mhttcnetwork.org/event/making-sense-of-health-privacy-laws-hipaa-and-ferpa-for-school-based-health-professionals/. 

OhioMHAS noted that health and mental health providers employed by a school district, community providers contracted by a school district to work on-site, and school-based/school-linked health center providers are encouraged to attend.