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To increase the number of students receiving mental health services, Connecticut schools have engaged community mental health providers in delivering school-based care.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Resource Leveraging | Screening and Assessment | Sustainability | System Change | Vulnerable Populations

To reduce the incidence of suspensions and expulsions, particularly for male students of color who are disproportionately impacted, Connecticut employed a Restorative Practices approach across its SS/HS districts.

Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Cultural Linguistic Competency | Disparities/Disproportionalities | Evaluation | Policy | School Violence | System Change | Vulnerable Populations

The Nevada Department of Education, Office of Safe and Respectful Learning Environment (NDE OSRLE), established the Governor’s Social Workers in Schools Initiative with the focus of creating safe schools through prevention programming as well as a system of multi-tiered interventions for students...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Connecting Schools and Communities | Disparities/Disproportionalities | Evaluation | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Policy | School Violence | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Substance Use Prevention | Suicide Prevention | Sustainability | System Change | Technology | Trauma Informed/Response | Vulnerable Populations

The three LEAs (Lyon, Nye, and Washoe School Districts) provided ASQ-SE training for schools and community early childhood professionals. As a result, developmental screenings have been provided to 1,169 young children (2013-2016 school years). The school districts and community agencies have dev...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Developmentally Appropriate | Early Care and Education | Evidence Based/Informed | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Parent Skills Training | Policy | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | System Change | Technology | Trauma Informed/Response | Vulnerable Populations

Wisconsin’s SS/HS Team and partners committed to promote and improve recognition and treatment of mental health challenges through improved inter-agency collaboration and improved access to treatment. 

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Developmentally Appropriate | Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care | Policy | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Sustainability | System Change | Vulnerable Populations

The SS/HS Initiative set an overarching goal to increase family engagement in schools.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Family Driven | Parent Skills Training | Policy | Social and Emotional Well-Being | System Change | Vulnerable Populations

Wisconsin’s SS/HS State Team and LEA’s worked in collaboration with the state Pyramid Model Implementation Team to expand early childhood social emotional learning (SEL) and development across the state through 1) broad implementation of the Pyramid Model, and 2) improving early identification of...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Developmentally Appropriate | Early Childhood | Evaluation | Evidence Based/Informed | Policy | Screening and Assessment | System Change | Technology | Vulnerable Populations

Approximately 20% of all children have some sort of mental health issue and only one third of those receive services.  Of those students who do receive mental health services, 70% get them in the school setting.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care | Policy | System Change | Vulnerable Populations

School professionals and students across all seventeen school districts in York County, Pennsylvania formed an active student-led Youth Mental Health Alliance (Alliance) that serves as a catalyst “to end the stigma of mental illness, and to ensure that mental-health resources are available to eve...

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Connecting Schools and Communities | Family Driven | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | System Change | Vulnerable Populations | Youth Guided

Responds to and recognizes the impact of trauma on many sectors in behavioral health and beyond. The paper introduces the concept of trauma and offers a framework for how organizations, systems, and service sectors can become trauma-informed.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | System Change | Vulnerable Populations