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Albany district outlines FACT team, nursing workloads and rising needs for homeless and medically fragile students
Summary
Health Services Coordinator Marivi Wright told the board the district's FACT team and nurses handled hundreds of referrals last year and are exploring expanded Medicaid billing to support medical services in schools.
Marivi Wright, the district's Health Services Coordinator, told the Greater Albany Public School District 8J board the FACT (Family and Community Together) team and school nurses supported thousands of students last year and face growing demand for services.
Wright said the FACT team identified 545 McKinney-Vento (homeless) students and 72 students in foster care in the 2023-24 school year, completed 465 home visits and connected more than 410 students to clothing, food, school supplies, housing assistance and other services. The FACT team made 389 mental-health referrals and 119 attendance referrals last year, Wright said. This school year to date she reported about 300 McKinney-Vento identifications, 65 foster-care students and 206…
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