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Features child exploitation information, resources, and guidance from government agencies and non-profit organizations, and outlines ways K-12 school communities can help identify, prevent, and respond to the victimization of students.
Provides actionable strategies on building positive relationships and resilience with youth, responding to youth suicide, understanding youth behaviors, and employing trauma-informed practices.
The Central East MHTTC in collaboration with the National Center for School Mental Health is offering a school mental health webinar series with a focus on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma sensitive, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.
Objectives:
Gain increased awareness of school well-being within a multi-tiered system of school mental health supports and servi
The National Center for School Mental Health, a technical assistance and training center with a focus on advancing research, points out connections between pandemic-related impacts for students' mental health and increases in behavioral outbursts, aggression, and fights.
With a nationwide psychiatrist shortage and diminished access to mental and behavioral health help, one school's community coordinator created "Healthy Island," a once empty room now dedicated to be a safe and therapeutic space for students.
Muriel Sarmiento was brought to the United States as a teenager with her immigrant family from Venezuela. She struggled in high school as she grappled with a new language and culture, keeping to herself because she was afraid of others making fun of her heavy accent. Her school experience in the U.S. changed dramatically when she enrolled in Miami Dade College’s dual-language program, one of the few of its kind in the nation.
Students from Lexington, KY high schools shared their opinions on school safety with the District Safety Advisory Council, including metal detectors and mental health resources.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona discussed school mental health with Nebraska educators and psychologists, including limited funding in rural communities and access to federal grants.
Chronic absence–which includes absences that are excused, unexcused, or due to suspensions–is a leading indicator of inequity. When chronic absence occurs, it is a sign of challenges inside and outside schools (e.g.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships is holding a virtual event series on religious literacy to support greater understanding and inclusion of America’s religious diversity. The series is aimed at supporting public PreK-12 schools with strategies for welcoming, accommodating, and fostering inclusive learning environments for students of diverse religious and nonreligious backgrounds.