Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges

Websites

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS): School-Based Mental Health. Program descriptions and background information about school-based mental health services, including programs that serve the children of immigrants and refugees. CHHCS is a policy and program resource center located at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Center for Mental Health in Schools: School Mental Health Project (SMHP). A wealth of resources about mental health and psychosocial concerns in schools, including resource guides on over 130 mental health topics, policy and program reports, electronic newsletters, online discussion forums, training tutorials, presentation materials, and program and conference information. The center is located at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Center for School Mental Health (CSMH). Program and conference information, legislative updates, issue briefs, resource packets, and other materials about promising ideas for advancing research, training, and practice in school mental health. Resources address a wide range of school mental health topics, including systems of care, child maltreatment, telemental health, crisis intervention, foster care, health reform, mental health parity, bullying, and suicide prevention. CSMHA is located at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Also see SchoolMentalHealth.org for resources and tools to enhance mental health promotion, prevention, treatment, and referral in schools.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Healthy Youth! Mental Health. Information about school health policies and programs, data and statistics, and publications by CDC and other organizations about school health programs that address mental health. Resources include

School Health Index (SHI). Self-assessment and planning guide to help schools identify the strengths and weaknesses of their school-health-promotion policies and programs; develop an action plan for improving student health; and involve teachers, parents, students, and the community in improving school policies, programs, and services. Covers counseling, psychological, and social services.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Database. Information about journal articles, research reports, teaching guides, curricula, conference papers, and books covering all aspects of education-related issues. Enter "mental health" (or the name of the condition) in the search box. Click on Search. Use the filters in the left navigation bar to further limit your search. ERIC is sponsored by the Department of Education (ED).
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Child and Adolescent Action Center: Schools and Education. Information about a 2-hour in-service program to help school professionals identify the early warning signs of mental illnesses in children and adolescents in schools. Includes recommendations, articles, and other resources about ways for school professionals and families to work together to address mental health challenges.
National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC): Mental Health. Program information, tools, and resources for implementing, evaluating, and improving school-based mental health services. Includes links to comprehensive mental-health-assessment tools frequently used in school-based health centers. NASBHC also offers background information about school-based health care along with resources for advocacy, funding, evaluation, and quality improvement.
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention. Program information, webinars, research briefs, evidence-based intervention fact sheets, and other resources. The center provides technical assistance and training to school districts and communities as they plan, implement, and sustain federally funded initiatives to foster resilience, promote mental health, and prevent adolescent violence and mental health and behavioral challenges.
National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth): Mental Health Needs. Information and publications about the employment challenges often faced by adolescents with mental health needs who are transitioning into young adulthood and strategies to help them with the transition. NCWD/Youth is based at the Institute for Educational Leadership.
Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Planning, implementation, and evaluation tools for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices; video clips, training tools, and presentation materials; and a review of the evidence base for PBIS. Includes contact information for state PBIS coordinators. Resources are available in Spanish. The center was established by the Department of Education (ED).
Think:Kids. Rethinking Challenging Kids. Information about and resources to support this evidence-based approach for helping children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in school. Resources include an assessment tool, implementation guide, online discussion forums, a blog, training videos, and podcasts. Think:Kids is a program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Related MCH Digital Library Resources

Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Children and Adolescents professional resource guide. (Includes sections about early childhood, inappropriate use of seclusion and restraints, juvenile justice, military families, and parental depression and other mental health concerns), family resource brief
Adolescent Violence Prevention professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
Autism Spectrum Disorder professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
Bullying resource brief
Child Maltreatment resource brief
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs professional resource guide, family resource brief, school resource brief
Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families professional resource guide
Domestic Violence professional resource guide, family resource brief
Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents professional resource guide, family resource brief
Medications resource brief
Reaching Out to Children and Youth Following Disasters resource brief
School-Based and School-Linked Health Care school resource brief
School Health resource brief
Screening resource brief
Suicide Prevention resource brief
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Substance Use in Children and Adolescents resource brief

Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges: School Resource Brief. (July 2011). (Updated: July 2014).

Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Digital Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and Family-to-Family Health Information Resource Center at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Digital Library; Judi Siegel, L.I.C.S.W., Children's Hospital Boston; Sandy Swan, M.L.S., M.P.H., C.H.I.S., Phil Johnson Historic Archives and Research Library.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Digital Library.