Post on 16-Feb-2016
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Rural Outreach/RodeoAthletic Training Services
What is a Rural School?
Idaho Definition of a Rural School District (Senate Bill NO 1165)
33-319. Rural School Districts and Public Charter Schools Defined. (1) A school district shall be considered a rural school district if it meets one of the following two criteria:
(a) There are fewer than twenty (20) enrolled students per square mile within the area ecompassed by the school district's boundaries; or
(b) The county in which a plurality of the school district's market value for assessment purposes is located contains less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) residents, based on the most recent decennial United States census.
(2) A public charter school shall be considered a rural public charter school if the school district in which the public charter school is physically located meets the definition of a rural school district, pursuant to subsection (1) of this section. Public charter schools that are also virtual schools shall be considered a rural public charter school if over fifty percent (50%) of its enrolled students reside within school districts that meet the definition of a rural school district, pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.
Rural School Districts in Idaho
According to the Idaho State Department of Education there are 144 school districts in Idaho. 108 (75%) qualify as rural school districts and public charters. With this being said 45% (49) of these rural school districts have also gone from a five to a 4-day school week to reduce there annual budget.
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Rural Outreach/Rodeo
• The purpose of the Rural Outreach/Rodeo program is to provide athletic training services to the rural schools and communities of Southwest Idaho that are considered Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) or Medically Underserved Populations (MUPs).
• We provide the following in-kind services:• weekly or bi-weekly injury clinics• Coach, Administration, athlete, parent, & community education• Injury prevention• Acute and chronic injury evaluation• Injury treatment• Taping and bracing• Concussion evaluation and management• Home exercise programs• Evening and weekend medical support by phone
• Forging new relationships, harboring the relationships we have, and taking the Accountable Care model where its needed most (our rural communities).
Challenges of Rural Outreach
• What’s the catch?• School and community
approval• Financial responsibility• System buy in
• Accountable Care vs Fee for service
• Staffing• Location, location, location• School Administration and
coaches onboard• Time to build relationships
and trust
Benefits of Rural Outreach
• Bridge the athletic training gap for hundreds of athletes and their families that normally go without this service. We take our services to them.
• My office is rural Idaho.• Small town/community way of life.
Building Relationships and Trust!
TRUST!
Questions/Discussion
• Rural AT’s• What are you doing?• What are your
challenges?• What works for you?
• Rural AT Summit?
Kevin Taylor, MS, ATC, LATRural Outreach/Rodeo Coordinator
Cell: 208-440-2488taylorke@slhs.org
Kip Dribnak, ATC, LATDirector of Outreach andAthletic Training Services
Office: 208-706-7989dribnk@slhs.org
References
• Idaho State Department of Educationhttp://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/ruraleducation/
• Idaho High School Activities Associationhttp://idhsaa.org/
• Idaho Department of Health and Welfare/Idaho Bureau of Rural health & Primary Care
http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Health/RuralHealthandPrimaryCare/tabid/104/Default.aspx