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 Mental Health Provider conducts
mental health evaluation same day

Mental Health Provider conducts

mental health evaluation same day

Primary Care Provider and Mental

Health Provider create treatment
plan based on evaluation

Primary Care Provider prescribes

treatment determined by Mental
Primary Care Provider and Mental
Health Professional and Primary
Health
CareProvider
Provider create treatment
plan based on evaluation

Primary Care Provider prescribes

treatment determined by Mental
Health Professional and Primary
Care Provider

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Patient visits primary care provider

and primary care provider identifies
potential mental health care needs

Mental health provider conducts

mental health evaluation same day

Primary care provider and mental

health provider create treatment
plan based on evaluation

Primary care provider prescribes

treatment determined by mental
health professional and primary
care provider

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FRESHS t a r t
Fostering Resilience through Education, Support and Healthy choices

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STUDENT ENROLLMENT

NAT’L AVERAGE ALABAMA

2007 ASTHMA PREVALENCE RATE

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DR. ABBEY GREGG

Dr. Abbey Gregg is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine
and Population Health and in the Institute for Rural Health Research. Previously, she
was a program coordinator for Navigating the Road to Health for Nebraska Families
Collaborative in Omaha, and manager of public health services for Three Rivers
Public Health Department in Fremont, Nebraska. Gregg earned a bachelor’s degree
in Nutrition Science from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, a Master of Public
Health degree in Community Health Education from the University of Nebraska, and
a PhD in Health Services Research, Administration, and Policy from the University of
Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and
has received grant funding for research focusing on improvement of initiatives and
activities in local health departments.

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 DR. CONNIE LEEPER
Dr. Connie Leeper is an assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and
Rural Medicine. She also cares for patients at University Medical Center-Demopolis,
which the College operates. Leeper graduated cum laude from Duke University with a
bachelor’s degree in Biology. She earned her medical degree and a Master of Public
Health degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Leeper completed
a family medicine residency at the Ventura Family Medicine Residency in Ventura,
California, where she served as a chief resident. She also completed an obstetric
fellowship at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California.

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