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Mental Health
Mental Health
Mental health is a dimension of overall health and includes a continuum from high level wellness to severe illness. School mental health includes practices to address this continuum from high level emotional wellbeing to significant student mental health challenges. School mental health addresses all aspects of social-emotional development of school-age children including wellness, mental illness, substance abuse, and effects of adverse childhood experiences. Stigma associated with mental illness needs to be directly addressed and eliminated. This is most effectively done through an inclusive approach and offering examples of people who are similar to students and who share positive results and recovery.
School mental health may include but is much broader than a school-based or –linked mental health clinic. School mental health services refer to a continuum of supports for schoolage children that are integrated throughout the school community: universal strategies to promote the social and emotional well-being and development of all students; selected, brief strategies to support students at risk of or with mild mental health challenges; and intensive, ongoing strategies to support those with significant needs, including a streamlined referral process with community mental health providers to create a seamless service delivery model for children, adolescents, and their families. Various family, school, and community resources are coordinated
“A study estimating the relative influence of 30 different categories of education, psychological, and social variables on learning revealed that social and emotional variables exerted the most powerful influence on academic performance .” -CASEL, 2003, p. 7
PSRC District Mental Health Plan
PSRC District Mental Health Plan
Social Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning
"Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities." (CASEL, 2020)
Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Jennifer Miller
Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Jennifer Miller
Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty and Stress
Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty and Stress
Free 10-hour course to educators and school staff across the globe on Coursera that dives deeply into healthy emotion regulation for educators, the intersection of race, bias, and identity in educating students, and practical strategies to support students in managing their difficult emotions.
Sign-Up for Free Here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/managing-emotions-uncertainty-stress
NC-PAL Youth Mental Health Care Dashboard
NC-PAL Youth Mental Health Care Dashboard
NCPAL features a series of interactive maps and tables to show prevalence rates for behavioral health care diagnoses and treatments in North Carolina. Click HERE to explore the data.
NC-PAL is designed to help health care providers and professionals address the mental and behavioral health concerns of children, adolescents, pregnant and postpartum patients. Providers can call the NC-PAL Telepsychiatry Consult Line to speak with a pediatric or perinatal behavioral health specialist and receive clinical support, resources, and referral information for treating their patients.
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