Mental Health

This webinar will feature panelists from Sandy Hook Promise sharing ideas for how educators might discuss mental health with students. Tips and additional resources will also be provided, and participants will be encouraged to share their own success stories.

An NIJ-funded assessment of the relative benefits of broader mental health services yields mixed results, underscoring implementation challenges.

These guidelines from SAMHSA offer information for the design and development of services that meet the needs of children, youth, and their families experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

In this podcast episode, Mary Poulin Carlton joins host Paul Haskins to discuss bullying, school climate, mental health, and other important issues impacting school safety.

In this webinar, participants learn how they can improve their school's understanding of trauma, and enhance staff and student resiliency.

This guide allows for any school personnel to learn what restorative practices are, their benefits, and considerations for their use in a school setting.

This guide provides school staff with strategies to support students following traumatic events. It contains lessons learned, discussion tips, and mental health resources to help cope with a trauma response,

This report from the U.S. Department of Education provides focused information and resources to enhance the promotion of mental health and social and emotional well-being among students.

In the third and final episode of our series “What It Means to Be a School Leader”, Dr. Henderson-Smith discusses leading through a crisis and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Fact Sheet from whitehouse.gov describes the various federal approaches being taken to address youth mental health and substance use.

A toolkit outlining a framework for implementing Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented (TR) approaches in schools and school districts.

The What Works Clearinghouse contains a collection of evidence-based education programs and research.

CrimeSolutions.OJP.gov is a Clearinghouse with information on crime & crime prevention, juveniles, law enforcement, and technology & forensics.

The Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse was created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to support the reopening and continuing operations of schools.

SchoolSafety.gov is a clearinghouse of resources related to safe schools.

VetoViolence.CDC.gov contains a collection of youth violence prevention programs.

Youth.gov is a Clearinghouse with information on creating safe and healthy outcomes for youth.

SAMHSA.gov is a Clearinghouse with a broad collection of mental health and substance use programs and practices.

StopBullying.gov is a Clearinghouse with information on identifying and preventing bullying.

As new research continues to shed light on the impact it can have on social and emotional health, and with an increase in screen time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that we understand how young people are using social media and work with them to instill healthy habits.

Distance learning poses additional challenges in supporting student mental health and social-emotional learning. Join us to explore possible strategies and discover why this support is important. This is part one of a two-part series focused on school safety for distance learning.

Restorative Circles are a great way to build positive school environments and maintain strong, open relationships in the classroom.

This webinar will help new and experienced grant writers connect the dots between a winning proposal and their program's big picture goals.

This webinar reviews the essential features of school threat assessment, how and when it should occur, how it differs from other forms of threat assessment, and who is involved in a multidisciplinary team.