Training & Presentation Resources

• Continuing Education Modules (also see Books, Chapters, and Articles)
  • Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support

  • Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward

  • Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools

  • Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health in Schools

  • Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling
    • Accompanying Readings & Tools for Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

  • Enhancing School Staff Understanding of MH and Psychosocial Concerns: A Guide

  • About Infrastructure Mechanisms for a Comprehensive Learning Support Component

  • Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports

  • Mental Health in Schools: New Roles for School Nurses

• Quick Training Aids & Tutorials
  • Addressing Barriers to Learning: Overview of the Curriculum for an Enabling (or Learning Supports) Component

  • Assessing & Screening (SP)

  • Attention Problems in School

  • Behavior Problems at School

  • Bullying Prevention

  • Case Management in the School Context

  • Classroom Changes to Enhance and Re-engage Students in Learning

  • Community Outreach: School-Community Resources to Address Barriers to learning

  • Confidentiality (SP)

  • Creating the Infrastructure for an Enabling (Learning Support) Component to Address Barriers to Student Learning

  • Crisis Assistance and Prevention: Reducing Barriers to Learning

  • Financing Strategies to Address Barriers to Learning

  • Home Involvement in Schooling

  • Re-engaging Students in Learning

  • School-Based Crisis Intervention (SP)

  • School Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Adolescent Affect and Mood Problems

  • School Staff Burnout

  • Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

  • Suicide Prevention

  • Support for Transitions to Address Barriers to Learning

  • Violence Prevention

• Fact & Information Resources, and Brief Aids
  • Leadership for a Learning Support System in State Departments of Education: Example Job Descriptions

  • Barriers, Buffers, & Youth Development

  • Strengthening Health Care for Adolescents

  • Data About Youth in the United States

  • What is a Comprehensive Approach to Student Supports?

  • Why School-owned Student Support Staff are So Important

  • Many Schools, Many Students: Equity in Addressing Barriers

  • Data Related to the Need for New Directions for School Improvement

  • Data on the Plateau or Leveling Off Effect of Achievement Test Scores

  • Diffusion of Innovations and Science-Based Practices to Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools: A Series of Information Resources on Enabling System Change

    • Brief Overview of a Major Review by Lawrence W. Green, Judith M. Ottoson, Cesar Garcıa, and Robert A. Hiatt (2009) entitled: Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health

    • Dissemination Focused on Diffusion: Some Guidelines

    • Diffusion: In Pursuit of Action

    • Excerpts from Child Trends' series of Research-to Results Briefs on Adopting, Implementing, Sustaining, and Replicating Evidence-Based Practices

    • Brief Overview of Major Concepts from E.M. Rogers' Work on Diffusion of Innovations

    • Some Key Terms Related to Enabling System Change

    • Systemic Change for School Improvement

    • Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals

    • Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement

    • Some Key References Related to Enabling System Change

    • Brief Overview of Malcolm Gladwell’s Concept of the Tipping Point

    • Systemic Change and Empirically-Supported Practices: The Implementation Problem

    • Intro to Multi-Level Community Based Culturally Situated Interventions

    • Making and Disseminating Recommendations is Not Sufficient

  • Costs of Not Addressing Barriers to Learning

  • Some Base Line Data on School Mental Health Services

  • Why Address What's Missing in School Improvement Planning?

  • Frequently Asked Questions About Mental Health in Schools

  • The School's Role in Addressing Psychological Reactions to Loss

  • About Positive Psychology
  • About Empirically Supported Therapeutic Relationships
  • Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Toward a Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning (e.g., Creating a Cohesive System of Learning Supports)
  • New Directions for Student Supports: Some Resources
  • Resources for Planning Mental Health in Schools
  • What Might a Fully Functioning Enabling or Learning Supports Component Look Like at a School
  • What is a Learning Support Resource Team?
  • Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents
  • Annotated "lists" of Empirically Supported/Evidence Based Interventions for School-aged Children and Adolescents
  • About School Engagement and Re-Engagement

• Presentations, Webinars, and Related Material (e.g., Powerpoint Slides, Handouts)
  • Addressing Barriers to Learning & Teaching and Re-engaging Disconnected Students

  • Strengthening School Improvement: ..Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching (a powerpoint presentation by the American Association of School Administrators, Scholastic and the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools)

  • Enhancing School Improvement: Addressing Barriers to Learning and Reducing the Achievement Gap

  • Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching to Enhance School Improvement

  • Mental Health in Schools: Becoming an Integrated Part of the School Improvement Agenda

  • Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives (SP)

  • Academics and Beyond: Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

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