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"The Mental Health and High School Curriculum Guide provides a complete set of educational tools to increase understanding of mental health and mental disorders among both students and teachers."
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The Partnering for Student Wellness (PSW) project is a randomized, controlled research trial comparing two school behavioral health programs. Its purpose is to understand the added benefit of patient-centered enhancements to school mental health services on:
Accessibility of school mental health services
Social, emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes for students in grades 6-8
The Guide: Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness
"Ready to use the Guide in your school? Resources for each topic are available for download below, along with general resources to promote mental health in your school community. These resources are evidence-based, ready to use, and best of all, free! If you are looking for additional information about mental health, visit this site linked here."
Virginia Navigator
Virginia Navigator works to help people connect with resources in their communities, using their resource directory of over 26,000 local, statewide, and national programs and services. They also have a disability specific resource search tool called disAbility Navigator.
Caregiver Action Network
The Caregiver Action Network provides a free Caregiver’s Toolbox of resources, information, and videos for family caregivers. The Caregiver Action Network (CAN) also provides additional resources, education, information for family caregivers, including information on caregiving for specific conditions.
EduMed's Caregiver Handbook
EduMed provides a free Caregiver’s Handbook for family caregivers of all ages to help them find tools, resources, and in-depths solutions to some of caregiving's toughest challenges.
"NAMI is proud to introduce the Teen & Young Adult (T&YA) HelpLine: A free nationwide peer-support service providing information, resource referrals, and support to teens and young adults. Our T&YA Specialists are young people who understand what you're going through because they have been through stuff, too. They are experienced and well-trained. They care and want to help you find a way forward. Reach out by phone, text, or chat. You can find their resource directory for teens and young adults here."
Resources for Children's & Teen's Grief
For Teenagers
For Friends/Families
Behavioral Threat Assessment in Schools: Evidence, Fit, and Appropriateness
School violence, including school-based gun violence, is a major public health issue that has negative consequences for students, families, schools, and communities (Basile et al., 2020; Peterson et al., 2021). One approach that schools have adopted to address school violence is behavioral threat assessment (BTA). Based on a request from our funder, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), we developed a report on behavioral threat assessment and its intersection with youth mental health.
Youth MOVE Virginia has created a new & comprehensive resource directory for youth & young adults living in Virginia. This directory includes resources for mental health & wellness, physical health & wellness, coping skills and life skills, and community resources, such as food and housing, that are either developed specifically for youth & young adults or that are meant to include youth & young adults.
Websites, Webinars, Tools & More
Websites, Webinars, Tools & More
Federal Health Privacy Laws: Basics for School Professionals
"There are multiple federal health privacy laws that may apply to student mental health information. To assist mental health professionals working in schools in understanding how the federal health privacy laws apply to student mental health information, the MHTTC Network and the Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information (CoE-PHI) hosted a two-part virtual learning series."
School Safety Partners,
To help address critical and emerging school safety issues and support K-12 communities with relevant resources and information, SchoolSafety.gov launched a new Child Exploitation topic page on the site today. The new page features child exploitation information, resources, and guidance from government agencies as well as non-profit organizations, and outlines ways members of the K-12 school community can help identify, prevent, and respond to the victimization of students.
The Power Program
The POWER program incorporates techniques that have been found to be effective across adolescents with different types of emotion-related mental and behavioral health needs. As a targeted intervention, the POWER program is designed to be implemented at Tier 2 within a multi-tiered system of support framework.
The Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Toolkit
"This step-by-step guide for school-based health centers (SBHCs) uses an innovative, evidence-based approach to addressing drug and alcohol use with adolescents. The toolkit is a free, web-based resource that includes comprehensive training tools for school-based health care providers. "
Crisistextline.org's Mental Health Supplies
SAM Foundation: Suicide Awareness Means Hope
Mental Health is Mental Health: We all have mental health
The JED Foundation: Mental Health Resource Center
Access the webinars and slides for this great series on supporting the executive functioning of students with autism.
Executive function and self-regulation (EF/SR) skills provide critical supports for learning and development, and while we aren’t born with these skills, we are born with the potential to develop them through interactions and practice.
This 16-page guide (available for download, below), describes a variety of activities and games that represent age-appropriate ways for adults to support and strengthen various components of EF/SR in children.
Caught In The Middle School Counselors (Facebook Group)
High School Counselors’ Network(Facebook Group)
Elementary School Counselor Exchange (Facebook Group)
Classroom WISE is a FREE 3-part training package that assists K-12 educators in supporting the mental health of students in the classroom. Developed by the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network in partnership with the National Center for School Mental Health, this package offers evidence-based strategies and skills to engage and support students with mental health concerns in the classroom.
In addition to a free online course on mental health literacy for educators and school personnel, a video library and resource collection are also available!
Find a compilation of resources that are referenced in the Classroom WISE online course. All resources were developed by the MHTTC Network and the National Center for School Mental Health for Classroom WISE, unless otherwise noted. A complete list of Classroom WISE resources is available here.
This library is a compilation of videos embedded in the Classroom WISE online course. All videos were developed by the MHTTC Network and the National Center for School Mental Health for Classroom WISE.
In this FREE 3-part training, developed by the Central East MHTTC in partnership with the National Center for School Mental Health, K-12 educators and school staff will learn how inequities in education impact student mental health and how implicit bias influences our perceptions and responses. Building on this foundation, educators and school staff will learn culturally inclusive classroom strategies to support student mental health.
Anti-Racism & Cultural Responsiveness
Anti-Racism & Cultural Responsiveness
The Institute for Innovation and Implementation, in collaboration with the Family Acceptance Project, has launched a new online resource to help LGBTQ youth and families find services and increase support for LGBTQ youth. Visit the website here and learn more!
Inclusive books , Curriculum Guides, Community
Inclusive books , Curriculum Guides, Community
"Hope in a Box provides public school educators with curated sets of LGBTQ-inclusive literature, distinctive curriculum for these books, and community and training on how to build an LGBTQ-inclusive classroom. We are the nation’s largest early-intervention program for building LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms and maintain the most extensive library of LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum in the United States. Hope in a Box serves 70,000+ students across all 50 states."
1 in 10 kids is LGBTQ
1 in 10 kids is LGBTQ
"In an average classroom of 20, there are likely at least two kids who are trying to figure out their gender identity or sexual orientation. Books like the ones we provide will support them on their journeys.
We provide LGBTQ-inclusive books to Pre-K through 3rd grade classrooms to help students and teachers “Read out loud, read out proud!”
"Our mission is to provide high-quality training and technical assistance to improve the capacity of the workforce serving Hispanic and Latino communities in behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery. We disseminate and support the implementation of evidence-based and promising practices to enhance service delivery, promote the growth of a diverse, culturally competent workforce, and bridge access to quality behavioral health services. We are committed to increasing health equity and access to effective culturally and linguistically grounded approaches."
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention
The 988 Partner Toolkit is intended to facilitate partner efforts for collaborative and aligned 988 communication planning.
Suicide Prevention & Crisis Resources
Ring the Alarm: the Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America
Understanding Latinas’ Suicidal Behaviors and Implications for Practice
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio: 1-888-628-9454
Lifeline Chat: suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat
Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
The Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth): 1-866-488-7386, text START to 678678, or visit TrevorChat (www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help-now)
Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
Preparing Our Youth to Recognize Signs & Help
Preparing Our Youth to Recognize Signs & Help
Free Tools & Websites
Heard Alliance K-12 for Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA) Conversation Starters
Programs
RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT SUICIDE PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS
For suicide prevention resources created for Virginia schools, please visit Suicide Prevention Webpages from the following agencies and organizations:
SUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND SCHOOL STAFF
Youth Voice
Youth Voice
"Unique digital behavioral health platform marries the technology teens rely on and the support they need with a matrix of positive tech engagement, self-guided activities, coaching, teen-focused clinical services, and crisis support."
"Youth Collaboratory harnesses the power of the youth services community to innovate, evaluate, and drive effective strategies that assure the safety and well-being of youth and young adults, unlocking their limitless potential."
The Youth MOVE Change Initiative is a program designed to enhance and expand the peer workforce, with a specific intention to work in the field of mental health to address the unique needs of youth of color and LGBTQIA2-S+ youth.
Secondary School Counselors: DoSomething.org is a youth-led movement for good. This incredible website offers opportunities for students to choose a cause they care about and then take action. The Do Something About Bullying webpage is particularly powerful with multiple ideas and resources for ways you can empower students to become changemakers.
S.T.A.Y. Tuned: Supporting Transition-Age Youth Podcast is a podcast for young adults, made by young adults, with mental health conditions. It's designed with the purpose of sharing useful information our research team has gained through studies of transition-age youth/young adults navigating school or work. We bring on guests, including our research collaborators from across the globe, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for youth with serious mental health struggles, particularly as they navigate educational and workforce experiences.
School-Based Health Alliance Youth Health Hub: This website aims to bring young people who are involved in a school-based health center or interested in the intersection of health and education together to build a community, find national and local opportunities, browse articles, find events, and more. We invite you to write your own blog post, start a conversation in our forum, or list your event.
Youth MOVE Virginia Peer Support Group
Youth MOVE Virginia's Peer Support Group is now meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month from 5:00 to 6:00. Take an hour to meet with other youth & young adults to talk about what's going on in your recovery and discuss mental health related topics in a safe, inclusive space.
Email mschnoor@namivirginia.org for more information and to register.
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