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Behavioral Health/Mental Health

The CASEL Guide

Provides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of classroom-based social and emotional learning programs and applies this framework to rate and identify well-designed, evidence-based SEL programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States. Also shares best-practice guidelines for district and school teams on how to select and implement SEL programs and offers recommendations for future priorities to advance SEL research, practice and policy.

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (IOM Report)

Updates the 1994 book Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders and contains information on the status of research on programs in mental health and substance abuse prevention for children, youth, and young adults as well as suggestions for improving these programs (This content is used with permission from EDC, Inc. All rights reserved).

Mental Health United States (Sponsored by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Provides a biennial survey on the mental health status of the U.S. population; the providers and settings for mental health services; the types of mental health services and rates of utilization; and costs and sources of funding for mental health services. Biennial reports available since 2002.

Advancing Education Effectiveness: Interconnecting School Mental Health and School-Wide Positive Behavior Support

Articulates the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF), a proposed and developing interconnection of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and School Mental Health (SMH) systems to improve educational outcomes for all children and youth, especially those with or at risk of developing mental health challenges. Represents a collective effort to further develop the ISF concept and guide the interconnection of PBIS and SMH toward effective multi-tiered mental health promotion for all students, with guidance for this work at school building, district, and state levels.

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