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Advisory board adopts member-led format, schedules October session on funding and braiding
Summary
The Connecticut school-based health centers advisory board approved minutes, discussed and accepted a member-led meeting format focused on four priority areas, and assigned the October meeting to funding and braiding with requests for panel volunteers.
The Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers advisory board agreed to a new member-led meeting format designed to center practitioner experience and produce concrete recommendations for the commissioner.
Melanie Wild Lane, executive director of the association and cochair of the School Based Advisory Committee, presented the format: a roughly 45-minute featured presentation with Q&A, 20 minutes of task-force member highlights, time to plan the next meeting and a final 10-minute public-guest Q&A. She said members may submit materials in advance and were encouraged to volunteer to present best practices from their sites.
“I think the format of the meeting is to help us lead to some best practices to drive our report and recommendations on very concrete topics,” said Amanda Pickett, who co-chairs the group and works at the State Department of Education.
A long-serving member raised concerns that the format might reduce the group’s focus on its statutory mission — advising the commissioner on sustainability, licensing and funding for school-based health centers — and asked how the board’s formal report would be preserved under the new approach. Board leaders responded that the four topics the work group outlined (funding and braiding; data and outcomes for storytelling; workforce sustainability; and youth engagement) are intended to generate the material that will feed the board’s report and recommendations.
The board assigned the October meeting (scheduled for Oct. 20) to the funding-and-braiding topic and asked members to identify potential panelists who can speak to Medicaid/DSS funding, school-district perspectives, grant writing/tracking and philanthropic support. Melanie Wild Lane also announced follow-up communications that will include the topic outlines and presentation details.
The meeting opened with a motion to approve the minutes from April 21, 2026; Amanda Pickett moved the motion and Melanie Bonjour seconded. The chair noted one abstention (Sherry Linton) and announced the minutes approved. The meeting adjourned at 02:14.
The advisory board will circulate links and materials ahead of the October meeting and invited members to contact organizers if they can present or recommend panelists.
