Marquette-Alger RESA
Behavioral Health Services
System for Sustainable Youth Services in Schools
Our Mission
Our goal at the Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency (MARESA) is to increase and improve access to high-quality behavioral health care for PK-12 students, while also reducing financial costs and stigmas associated with seeking and participating in mental health services.
Creating a system for sustatinable youth services in your school district will ensure that the social emotional and behavioral health needs of your students and their families are identified and appropriate support are offered.
Supporting the Whole Child
A whole child approach to education is grounded in research and ensures students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged.
COMPONENTS OF SCHOOL AND HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMS
The components of school and health support systems serve two main functions.
First, schools provide structures that give students knowledge and skills to make decisions that positively impact their health and social-emotional well-being. Schools engage students in health, physical education and social-emotional lessons and activities from prekindergarten through high school.
Second, schools provide services to meet students’ nutrition, physical and behavioral health needs. Services are tiered and support the needs of individual students and the student body as a whole. They are provided in partnership with families and in collaboration with community organizations. These components, circling around the whole child tenets and practices in 10 equally distributed segments, describe structures to build lifelong healthy skills and provide services to meet whole child needs.
Why create a system for sustainable system for behavioral health services in your school?
Mental Health Disorders can affect classroom learning and social interactions, both of which are critical to the success of students. However, if appropriate services are put in place to support a young person’s mental health needs we can often maximize success and minimize negative impacts for students.
MARESA consultants are supporting programs and services in school dsitricts and establishing community partners within Marquette and Alger counties. Sustainable system implementation utilizes a Multi-Tierd System of Supports framework . We work with each district to tailor our service delivery to meet the needs and current reality of your school and community.