Recommended resources
There are many available resources for developing comprehensive school-based mental health systems. These are some of our favorites!
SCREENING
- Best practices in implementing universal screeners
- Considerations for evaluating universal screeners
- SHAPE Screening Quality Guide
- Developing effective mental health screening approaches
TEAMING
- Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) School Installation Guide
- MH team roles and functions checklist
- SHAPE Teaming Quality Guide
- Creating effective school and district mental health teams
EQUITY
- Creating equitable school-based mental health systems
- Addressing health disparities through school-based-health services (ecs.org)
- Inclusive meeting guide (harvard.edu)
- Prioritizing Racial Equity in Student Mental Health Spending – Center for American Progress
- Refocusing School-Based Mental Health with an Equity Lens: Support, Engage, Empower | CEI (edimprovement.org)
- Blueprint for using data to reduce disparities/disproportionalities in human services and behavioral health care
- Cultural Inclusiveness and Equity WISE
ENGAGEMENT
- Engaging youth and parents in school-based mental health systems
- Authentic and proven family engagement strategies
- Strategies for equitable family engagement
- Youth engagement guidance: Strategies, tools, and tips for supportive and meaningful youth engagement in federal government-sponsored meetings and events (SAMHSA)
STAFF WELLNESS
- Promoting staff and organizational wellness
- Addressing educator burnout
- A toolkit for supporting the implementation of school employee wellness in districts/schools (Society for Public Health Education)
- Healthy school, staff, and students: A guide to improving school employee wellness (National Association of Chronic Disease Directors)
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
RESOURCE MAPPING
- Needs assessment and resource mapping quality guide
- Community resource mapping (Essential tools)
- Aligning your prevention programs and initiatives workbook
IMPACT
- Measuring the impact of school-based mental health services
- SHAPE – Screening and assessment library
- Impact quality guide
- Blueprint for using data to reduce disparities/disproportionalities in human services and behavioral health care
SERVICES (Tiers 1, 2 & 3)
- Mental Health Promotion Services and Supports (Tier 1) Quality Guide
- A framework for effectively implementing evidence-based programs and practices (EBPs)
- CASEL
- Early Intervention & Treatment Services & Supports (Tiers 2 & 3) Quality Guide
- Midwest PBIS – Building Tier 2 Supports
- Midwest PBIS – Tier 3 Tools
- Interconnected Systems Framework – Integrating Mental Health and PBIS/MTSS