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  Assessment Instruments Available Research/Science/Knowledge-Base Confidentiality and Consent Concerns Evaluations Funding for Doing and Enhancing the Work Inservice/CE Topics, Strategies, and Resources Teachers/Staff Students Families Classroom/General Institutions Intervention Approaches (How to do it) Addressing Individual Needs Restructuring on a System Level Program Level Concerns Intervention Issues Peer Programs Policy Information School-Agency Relationships & Bureaucratic Concerns School Climate School Improvement Planning as Context for Enhancing How Schools Address MH and Psychosocial Concerns School Staff wellness Selecting and Training New Professionals Special Education Concerns Stakeholder Relationships at School

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  Assessment Instruments:
  

  • About measuring mental health in schools

  • As screening of students “at risk” expands, the discussion includes analyzing internet & social media use

  • Capturing data on violence prevention at school

  • Children and Depression The Popular Press Accelerates Discussion of Concerns

  • Concerned about assessment and consequences if not valid

  • Help identifying client satisfaction surveys
  • How can we measure how mentally healthy are the kids with whom we work?

  • How can we measure readiness for change at a school?

  • How Many Kids Have a Mental Disorder?

  • Identifying At Risk Students in Schools

  • If you have used mental health consultation at school, what do you recommend?

  • Including yearly assessment of social and emotional development in accountability

  • Information about Mental Health Screening in Schools

  • Looking for an assessment to use at the end of year to evaluate progress

  • Looking for graphics to map mental health resources in school

  • Measure for anger management group

  • Mental Health Screening material in Spanish?

  • Need a user friendly evidence based universal screening for K-12 students

  • Need an assessment tool related to barriers that lead to truancy & dropout

  • Need resources related to doing a school needs assessment

  • Need survey to assess student/school supports for transitioning back students who have been on "leave" (for anxiety, depression, or school phobia)

  • Need tools to identify & monitor at risk students

  • Needed: a measure of adolescent self-esteem

  • Needed: Measures to evaluate mental health in schools

  • Needed: A survey to get student perceptions about engagement in learning

  • Parent surveys related to mental health and social emotional development

  • Screening Mental Health Problems in Schools

  • Screening students for risk factors

  • Survey targeted to mental health services providers who work in schools

  • What is the ideal school based depression screening program?

  • What questionnaires are available on parenting knowledge and skills?

  • Who is using what to screen entering kindergarteners?

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  Available Research/Science/Knowledge-Base on:
  

  • About finding information on what schools are doing related to mental health

  • About framing evidence based interventions for addressing barriers to learning and teaching

  • About "patches" for psychotropic medications

  • About school-based mental health and parents

  • About research on the impact of principal and teacher relationships

  • Any research on importance of keeping the same support staff with students over time?

  • Backlash to Overstating the Science-base for School Interventions

  • Best practices in school-based behavioral health

  • A Community Agency working with a feeder pattern, any experience with this?

  • Conducting descriptive research on school-based mental health practice for my dissertation

  • Connecting student support to academic outcomes

  • Connection between bullying and substance abuse?

  • Current concerns and research related to sexual harassment in schools

  • Data on cost-effectiveness of school-based programs and services?

  • Doing research on schools/districts that have moved from reactive services to proactive prevention

  • Does evaluation data show that learning supports enhances academic outcomes?

  • Effective systems approaches to behavior support?

  • Have Professionals Been too Mute About the Expanding Use of Psychotropic Drugs with Young Children?

  • How depression directly effects education

  • How does mental health status affect school performance?

  • How many students are not ready to learn?

  • How school mental health is defined?

  • How to assess the danger a student may pose in the future?

  • How to communicate about the need for learning supports: Should we say barriers to learning and teaching or challenges to ...

  • How to use the Center’s self-study surveys to systematically map district and school learning supports efforts

  • Impact of Learning Supports Frameworks on SEL, Teacher Motivation, Equity

  • INFO SHEET -- About Empirically Supported Therapeutic Relationships

  • Link between use of mental health services and decrease in suicides

  • "Marketing" mental health at the school site?

  • "Marketing" the value of school-based student support

  • Need a more current evidence based model for mental health in schools

  • Need a working definition of emotional wellness

  • Need data on the impact of learning support on educational outcomes

  • Need evidence based programs to apply for a student support grant

  • Need research on comprehensive interventions to support transitions to high school

  • Needed: evidence on the impact of home problems on student learning

  • Needed: Info on how poverty affects academics for inclusion

  • Needs assessment for hurricane aftermath

  • Obesity and Mental Health Implications

  • "Pay for Performance" for School Staff

  • Poverty and social and emotional development

  • Programs to connect students and school staff

  • Racial disproportionality in special education

  • Recent empirical studies to guide school-based suicide prevention?

  • Research on preschool transition effects on academics

  • Research on the relationship between exposure to violence and effects on learning

  • Research showing improved social/emotional skills improve graduation rates

  • Research to guide enhancing family involvement in schools

  • Resources for finding best practices for mental health in schools

  • Resources related to students living in poverty, with single parent

  • Support for grandparents raising grandchildren

  • Violence among deaf adolescents -- prevalence and prevention?

  • Wanted: A neatly packaged way to find specific practices for assessing and responding to general referrals and such specific problems as anxiety, depression, and family conflicts

  • Wanted: Info about "huffing" as gateway drug for middle school students

  • Wanted: Research references on the relationship of dress codes to academic achievement and graduation rates

  • What are best practices for promoting parent/child communication?

  • What are best practices for strengthening community mental health?

  • What are indicators of psychosocial competence?

  • What are the symptoms when children are exposed to domestic violence?

  • What does research say are the most common barriers to learning?

  • What is the ideal school based depression screening program?

  • What research shows the best use of counselor time for student outcomes?

  • What's the data on adopting a Knowledge-based Compensation System?

  • What's the science base on the impact of moving students with problems into special settings?

  • What's wrong with just adopting specific evidence-based practices from the provided lists?

  • Why don't more students use mental health services in schools?

  • Youth subcultures and education

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  Confidentiality and Consent Concerns:
  

  • About needing parental consent to seek MH help

  • Asking parents about students using psychoactive meds

  • Can we see a student under age 12 one time without parent consent?

  • Clarifying the issues of liability, malpractice, and negligence

  • Concern about confidentiality with regard to ethical and legal issues.

  • Confidentiality concerns in using email to share information on students?

  • Confidentiality Issue: Should school mental health staff tell the principal if a student is suicidal?

  • Dilemma about whether we need parent consent for therapeutic counseling

  • Does writing therapy goals into the IEP violate confidentiality?

  • Finding space for confidential counseling at a school

  • Guidelines for seeing a student before seeking parental consent

  • How to provide feedback to teachers who refer a student for MH services?

  • How to respond to parent requests for records of their child's school counseling?

  • Informed consent form for middle school students

  • Need ethical guidelines for providing mental health in schools

  • Need for consent form for school counseling

  • Putting risk assessment data in cum files: What are the practices/issues/problems?

  • Teacher's concern about a suicidal student

  • Timing of parent permission when doing a threat assessment

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  Evaluations:
  

  • Achievement scores leveling off after a couple of years

  • Comparing treatment efficacy of school-based and community-based services

  • Concerned about Children's Mental Health? The State of Schools Is the Big Story

  • Criteria for determining if schools and public mental health systems are collaborating effectively

  • Does Drug Testing at School Deter Student Drug Use?

  • Evaluating mental health workers in schools

  • Evaluating parent involvement

  • High Stakes Accountability in Schools is an Increasing Mental Health Concern

  • How City Council might partner with school district to strengthen learning supports

  • How do you evaluate school consultation teams?

  • How to evaluate family functioning before and after interventions?

  • Indepth Feedback: Evaluating outcomes of mental health interventions in schools

  • Middle Schools: A Good or Bad Arrangement?

  • Need data on the impact of learning support on educational outcomes

  • Need guidelines related to child study team evaluation

  • Need measure for pre/post intervention for behavior problems

  • The Plateau Effect

  • RFP for an evaluation of city supported school-based MH programs

  • Seeking a measure of parental involvement

  • Strengthening learning supports through Principal accountability measures

  • Tools to assess effective parenting

  • What are good measures to evaluate an 8th grade transition program?

  • What is the research on effectiveness of school-based mental health?

  • What would you suggest to colleagues asking about surveys on teachers’ perceptions about mental health of students?

  • Will Smaller High Schools Do a Better Job in Addressing Barriers to Learning and MH Concerns?

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  Funding for Doing and Enhancing the Work:
  

  • About funding for student & learning supports

  • About leveraging systemic changes to address mental health and violence concerns

  • Anticipating the shortfall from ESSA’s Block Grant

  • Deciding whether to close the alternative high school

  • Is there an example of a school site that has eliminated paperwork/insurance barriers?

  • Helping students, families, staff cope with district decisions on cuts that require closing schools and reducing staff?

  • How to leverage a small budget to advance learning supports in a district

  • How to keep top leadership focused on strengthening learning supports?

  • How to fund collaboration between schools and community mental health centers?

  • Funding available to build a school community collaboration?

  • Funding for afterschool counseling

  • Funding Leadership for Unifying Student and Learning Supports

  • Looking for information related to submitting a proposal for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems grant

  • Need a guide for preparing a proposal for mental health in school

  • Need funding to keep programs from disappearing

  • New Directions for Student Support: Where's the Money?

  • Planning to apply for grants: Is it wise to use a professional grant writer?

  • Seeking support to focus on mental health aspects of emergencymanagement in schools

  • Start up questions from staff as they begin a grant for school

  • U.S. Department of Education Proposes Eliminating Many Programs

  • Using alcohol abuse reduction grant to raise capacity of schools for broader supports

  • What does mental health cost?

  Inservice/CE Topics, Strategies, and Resources:
  

  Teachers/Staff
  
  • About bilingual education

  • About resources to help plan for terrorism in the schools

  • About student support staff working in classrooms

  • Administrators' attitudes: Barriers? Enablers?

  • Aids for planning initial orientation of new school-based MH counselors?

  • Any staff/teacher performance indicators on social emotional learning?

  • Assisting teachers to make inclusion more successful

  • "Back to School" Transitions: An Important Mental Health Concern

  • Best approach to supervision of school-based providers

  • Brief handouts for teachers on student self-injury and "huffing"

  • Communicating with school staff to enhance student supports

  • Effectiveness of school support staff compared to community providers

  • Expanding school based mental health and substance abuse services
  • From school staff: Need surveys for middle school students readiness for high school

  • Helping teachers and other school staff learn more about mental health as related to schools

  • Helping teachers understand student misbehavior

  • How are staffing patterns for student & learning supports changing?

  • How can we bring "fence sitter" staff to feel part of school improvement?

  • How to address student assault on staff in the best way for all concerned

  • How to evaluate online resources?

  • How to provide support to a teacher asking for help to enhance classroom efforts to improve student impulse control

  • Ideas on a budget for staffing prevention for mental health in every school

  • Involving students and families in exploring options for summer learning

  • Leadership skills for mobilizing staff

  • Looking for job descriptions for those working in learning supports

  • Looking for sample forms (consent, release of info., etc.)

  • Middle School Administrators interested in social-emotional learning

  • Need guides to help teachers see what is normal for the students developmental level?

  • Need how to resources for school-based behavioral health services

  • Needed: A continuum of professional development to establish a system of learning supports

  • Needed: a survey for teachers on mental health in schools

  • Planning for summer as part of learning supports

  • Playing a role in professional development at schools to address barriers to learning

  • Powerpoint presentations for school staff on student mental health

  • "Productivity" expectations for school based mental health clinicians? Three responses from school based mental health providers

  • Professional development to reduce classroom behavior problems

  • Promoting mental health through classroom curriculum

  • Providing teachers with resources to help students cope with holiday stressors

  • Resources for parents & school staff as they react to the tragic school schooting

  • Supporting new teachers: What teachers say they need so students can succeed

  • Training/materials related to teen depression for staff and paraprofessionals

  • Training for school-based staff to avoid triangulation

  • Training resources for special ed assistants and aides

  • Training teachers about how to address barriers to learning

  • Transforming credentialing standards for student/learning supports

  • Wanted: a short but comprehensive mental health handbook for teachers

  • Wanted: Research on what challenges are in store for teachers/counselors/schools in dealing with the aftermath of the hurricanes and student relocation

  • What Colleagues are Planning in Kicking-off the New School Year

  • What do we do when it is the coach/teacher who is the bully?

  • What would you suggest to colleagues asking about shifting teachers from a punitive to a nurturing response to students

  • What’s the best way to prepare new teachers to address behavioral and mental health concerns?

  Students
  
  • Adding suicide prevention to school/district crisis planning

  • Balancing academics and social activity

  • Books for "Hispanic" children to introduce them to mental health

  • Concern of school administrators about student mental health concerns

  • Concerns about a student having both a school and a community mental health provider

  • Countering Summer Set-backs in Learning and Development: What are innovative programs for students?

  • Countering student-deficit biases

  • Creating hope for success in K-3 students and their families

  • Curriculum for a course related to middle to high school transition

  • Early childhood programs and promoting mental health

  • Fifth graders into middle school: Concerns?

  • Help for a student who was abused by a teacher

  • Helping students cope with academic and social pressure

  • How best to help 3rd grade son who is being bullied

  • How best to work with a teen who has tuned out?

  • How can schools provide more help to challenged students?

  • How can students access free and confidential psychological help?

  • How to help a student understand his sibling with Asperger's Syndrome

  • How to help her daughter's school become more sensitive to the mental health of students

  • How to help large numbers of struggling students?

  • How to more effectively identify/prevent child abuse and neglect?

  • Indicators to identify students who are at-risk

  • Info to raise awareness regarding the "choking game"

  • Interactive software to help a student overcome fear of talking

  • Literature on barriers to learning related to disadvantaged students

  • Literature on resilience for high school students?

  • Making student/learning supports more effective

  • Need a student code of conduct integrating key strategies and alternatives

  • Need help with mean girls causing students to withdraw from school

  • Need Ideas for improving attendance

  • Need information for Legislators on the relationship between mental health and school dropout

  • Need strategies for professional development related to engagement in learning

  • Need resources for informing students, parents, and staff about child sexual abuse

  • Need resources on student self-referral for mental health in schools

  • Need resources/training related to anxiety in adolescence

  • Needed: Guidelines for interventions to transition back from special settings

  • Needed: Human sexuality curriculum for special populations

  • Needed: Protocol for working with students with eating disorders

  • Obesity: What are the mental health implications?

  • Planning for students with bi-polar disorder

  • Providing alternative learning opportunities for students having problems adjusting to school this year

  • Range of behavioral programs for aggressive behaviors

  • Resources for personalized learning

  • Resources for Spanish speaking population

  • Resource for student who made false abuse accusation

  • Resources on impulse control for children and adolescents

  • Resources to promote school connectedness

  • Strategies to keep kids engaged during the summer?

  • Strategies to sensitize students on how to interact with autistic peer

  • Suicide prevention and referral guidelines for state department of health?

  • Summer reading for students using social and emotional themes

  • Teaching students about mental health

  • The transition to middle and high school

  • Thinking about Special Times of the Year as Natural Opportunities for Social Emotional Development

  • Wanted: A curriculum for a girls' group that stresses supportive rather than competitive relationships

  • Weighing the pros and cons of a school change

  • What are mental health concerns in elementary and middle school students?

  • What are risks and advantages of sharing poems related to suicide of student?

  • What are safe websites for teens to seek information and support?

  • What are career options for working with students with learning problems?

  • What are the trends in adolescent mental health?

  • What contributes to the differences in student motivation teachers report in suburban v. urban schools?

  • What MH concerns are on the rise with the move to common core standards and related high stakes testing?

  • What opportunities open-up as attendance emerges as an expanded accountability indicator?

  • What supports are provided vulnerable youth after high school?

  • What would you suggest to colleagues asking for guidelines for helping students understand mental health concerns?

  • Why can't students take a compliment?

  • Worksheets to accommodate learning differences

  Families
  
  • About discouraging parental school involvement

  • About involving parents in school MH programs

  • Addressing parents after a teacher's conviction for molestation

  • Are home visits a cost effective way to strengthen family involvement with schools?

  • Bullying: wanted a survey to get the parents perspective

  • Computer games addiction?

  • Do we really mean to involve families at school?

  • From a foster parent: Need help for ninth grade foster child

  • How to provide info to evacuated families without further traumatizing them?

  • How to provide support for students, their families, and school staff after the hurricane

  • Impact on families of deployment to war

  • Introducing students and families to school MH supports

  • Medication refusal at school

  • MH Fact sheets for families

  • My seventh grade son cries at school every day . . . Help!

  • Need creative strategies to involve parents at the school

  • Need information for families about positive parenting

  • Need strategies for increasing parent involvement in schools

  • Need to educate school staff on mental health needs of our children

  • Needed: models and data on successful parental involvement plans

  • Needed: Programs and resources for the children of incarcerated parents

  • A Parent's Perspective: Personal cost-benefit look at mental health promotion in schools

  • Parent-teacher conferences

  • Programs for families when a parent is incarcerated

  • Reliable sources for materials to share with parents

  • Resources on grief for children who have lost a parent?

  • Resources to help students, family, and schools in the aftermath of weather-related disasters

  • Telling families students need counseling – without endangering working relationships

  • Trying to find resources for my son on Selective Mutism

  • Using end of year conferences to plan transition to the next grade/school

  • Welcoming families and building working relationships

  • What is the best way to enhance coordination among school-family-community resources?

  • What to do about distrustful parents who are resistant to "giving out information on what goes on at home"

  • Working with multiple families in group therapy

  • Working with challenging parents

  Classroom/School
  
  • About school boards and student/learning supports

  • About suicide prevention & emotional support in classrooms

  • About the White House recommendations for school safety

  • Anticipating school walkouts

  • Are there ethical codes/guidelines for educators in responding to bullying?

  • Assisting in the classroom to help student stay in his seat

  • Beyond Behavioral Initiatives

  • Common indicators for cross-jurisdictional attendance screening

  • Curriculum for sexual abuse prevention

  • Focusing on one area to start building a comprehensive system of learning support

  • How does response to intervention fit with learning supports?

  • Ideas for building social & emotional learning at elementary schools

  • Integrating the School Resource Officer into student/learning supports

  • Interactive computer-based mental health education and promotion

  • Interested in learning more about student engagement and disengagement to share with school boards and administrators

  • Is there a nationwide synthesis of school social work models?

  • Lesson plans for conflict resolution for middle school

  • Looking for schools that have effective alternatives to grade retention

  • Looking for specific curriculum materials vis a vis Mental Health issues to be used in the classroom

  • Mental Health Education for Students: What works?

  • Need examples for an RFP for combined school and home interventions.

  • Need more services.

  • Needed: A school instrument to measure social emotional development

  • Needed an unbiased consultation/research recommendation about a classroom curriculum to address alcohol and other drugs

  • Needed: checklist for implementing learning supports

  • Needed: classroom curriculum for teaching about mental health

  • Needed: examples of standards for school mental health providers

  • Needed: Guidelines for documentation of therapy and services in the school setting

  • Needed: Ideas for getting administrative buy-in for improving student and learning supports

  • Needed: Mental health strategies to include in school wellness plan

  • Needed: Strengths-based assessment for mental health in schools

  • Playground problems spill into the classroom & disrupt learning: Suggestions?

  • Poverty and social emotional development

  • Racial conflict at school and in the community

  • Research that shows student support programs and services increase academic achievement

  • Resources for Crisis Response

  • Stronger educational component needed in substance abuse treatment program

  • Using holiday-related school activities as natural opportunities to enhance social and emotional learning

  • We're planning for next year: What are some initial steps in transforming student and learning supports?

  • We've been working toward transforming student and learning supports: How are others summarizing progress?

  • What are effective practices in dropout prevention?

  • What is a public health model of school mental health?

  • What is the psychological impact of emergency drills on students?

  • Who is on what side in the debate on suicide screening in schools?

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  Intervention Approaches (How to do it):
  

  Addressing Individual Concerns
  
  • About how mental health providers may differ with school staff on the best way to help a youngster

  • Addressing truancy and student attendance

  • Addressing learning needs along with social emotional needs

  • Attention Problems -- Accommodating those not eligible for special education

  • Best next steps for post secondary student with learning problems

  • Concern about a five year old with serious problems

  • Dealing with behavioral outbursts in regular ed student

  • Engaging parents of middle school students: It's so hard

  • Extrinsic rewards as a solution to behavior issues?

  • Guidelines for a girls' group focusing on female aggression

  • Help: Teaching & addressing disruptive students

  • Helping students return after an absence related to mental health problems

  • Homework -- a mental health concern and a potential barrier to learning

  • How do I deal with avoidance behavior around homework?

  • How does school culture address low motivation among some high school students?
  • How to end aggressive behaviors in special education class
  • How to help school staff better understand ways to work with a defiant child

  • How to use self-study surveys to develop a comprehensive set of student and learning supports

  • How to work with students concerned about the death of a student's parent?

  • Ideas for a group of students with communication disorders?

  • Improving outcomes for English Language Learners

  • Interventions for "overage" middle school students

  • Kindergarten student won't speak at school; any ideas for addressing the problem?

  • Mental health issues among residential school students

  • Need info for making the best informed school plan for suicide prevention
  • Need information about test anxiety

  • Need more information on motivation and student engagement
  • Need resources related to elementary transgender student
  • Needed: Best practices for establishing a planning room students identified as conduct problems

  • Needed: Program ideas for working with a student diagnosed as having an oppositional defiant disorder

  • Needed: Strategies to enhance engagement of students with disabilities

  • Needed: Survey instrument to measure motivation

  • Sexual harassment awareness and prevention for secondary students

  • School wants to re-label my son, I disagree, what do I do next?
  • Screening and intervention in elementary school
  • Strategies for a gifted but unmotivated student

  • Strategies classroom teachers can use to adapt their teaching and support students who are diagnosed with selective mutism.

  • Suicide prevention for 5th grade

  • Suicide of a student at an elementary school: need resources

  • Surveys and research on homelessness and mental health

  • Talking with students about motivation

  • Treatments for children with extreme separation anxiety?

  • Understanding the emerging mental health needs of students
  • Wants info about school or shelter programs for homeless elementary school children
  • Ways to strengthen mental health programs for inner city schools

  • What's a good instruction program for a "behavior" room?

  • What is the impact of grades on motivation?

  • What are some ways to understand how school can promote MH?

  • What can teachers do to support students with mental health concerns?

  • What helps make inclusion successful?

  • What to do about a bright, turned off student?

  • What to do with a sixth grader who is verbally aggressive?

  Restructuring on a System Level
  
  • About behavioral management systems for schools

  • About strengthening a school-based student/family center?

  • Addressing barriers to learning in a low income school.

  • As defined in ESSA, who are Specialized Instructional Support Personnel? Are they the only ones who provide student and learning supports?

  • Case conferencing and case teams at schools

  • A colleague’s challenging concern

  • Compartmentalized and Territorial Turf Battles

  • Concern about integrating school interventions based on divergent theories

  • Creating a family of schools to enhance student/learning supports

  • Do school’s need to address poverty in order to improve learning?

  • Enhancing support for non English speaking students

  • Exchange about MTSS (Multi Tiered System of Support)

  • Help me change the minds of district leaders on mental health in schools

  • How a district can move forward in strengthen learning supports

  • How do we align the mandates based on reinforcement theory with efforts to enhance intrinsic motivation?

  • How social emotional learning fits into the bigger learning

  • How to keep class meetings and groups positive and productive?

  • How to keep the mental health focus on a comprehensive system of support

  • Impact of multiservice family centers?

  • Impact on student support as a school converts to a small learning community

  • Looking for alternatives to suspension that can interrupt the school to prison pipeline

  • Looking for Examples of Places Working on Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System of Student and Learning Supports

  • The multi-tiered students support (MTSS) model: How does it fit into a unified & comprehensive system of learning supports?

  • Multiple intervention initiatives need to intersect

  • Necessary components of alternative settings for suspensions/expulsions

  • Need resources for delivering mental health in schools

  • Need suggestions for promoting systemic changes to enhance equity of opportunity for all students to succeed

  • Needed: Guidelines on alternatives as district moves from corporal punishment

  • Needed: Ideas for a mental health safety plan at a school 30

  • Practitioner trying to play a role in the school's restructuring

  • Reducing repeat referrals to alternative middle schools

  • Rural school-based mental health and teleconsultation

  • School and district-wide case management and information sharing

  • School mental health counseling systems and data gathering

  • Students bringing neighborhood vendettas into the school; what interventions work?

  • Templates to guide transformation of learning supports in a high need school

  • Using common core standards for learning supports to advance the work

  • What are the most pressing barriers related to addressing diversity in schools?

  • What are the pros and cons of student support staff being centralized in a district or decentralized by schools?

  • What can a small but "impacted" school do to improve outcomes?

  • What case can be made to administrators about the value of school-owned student support and MH professionals?

  • What products would you want a state department to develop as resources to help guide and support prevention and early intervention initiatives?

  • Will “free” tuition really address equity of opportunity?

  • Working with Families in Schools/Family systems therapy in school based mental health

  • Working with families through a student "life map"

  Program Level Concerns
  
  • About ideas for working on "self-discipline" through classroom projects

  • About starting a counseling program at a school

  • About strategies to minimize dependence and enhance independence in students

  • About Third grade retentions: What’s being done to ensure all students can read?

  • About using self-study surveys to enhance learning support activity

  • About what to do (and not to do) on the anniversary of a school shooting or other tragedy

  • Any guidelines for evaluating a program’s focus on cultural competence?

  • Developing a day treatment program

  • Developing learning supports in small schools with limited resources

  • Drug use increasing in our high school, any exemplary high schools to visit?

  • Early Mental Health Intervention ideas for 10-14 year olds?

  • Finding more ways to get disengaged students re-engaged in learning at school

  • Group counseling guidelines at schools. And, continuing with students after graduation

  • How and when to map resources to improve learning supports

  • How to deal with the competition between enhancing prevention programs and efforts to expand services for those with deep end mental health problems

  • Ideas for working with a troubled kindergarten student

  • Intern finds resistance to implementation of best practices

  • Is anyone using "adventure-based counseling in schools?"

  • Is there a specific age when interventions are more effective?

  • Looks like we wont be able to sustain school based mental health interventions: Help!

  • Mental health in schools "How do I start?"

  • Need "barriers to learning" treatment plan form

  • Need professional development focused on learning supports for newly hired staff at a restructured school

  • Need to convince administrators not to eliminate electives

  • Need to know more about social emotional development and learning

  • Needs and expectations increase while resources dwindle: Need ideas

  • Ninth grade plan

  • Poverty and Mental Disorders -- Intensive case management for children living in poverty; Related observation about mental disorders and multigenerational poverty

  • Providing info on juvenile justice to "high risk" youth

  • Retention in second grade

  • Strategies to support culturally and linguistically diverse students

  • Summer enrichment for all students

  • Talking points for increasing mental health support in schools

  • What are the alternatives to suspension?

  • What is social marketing related to learning supports?

  • What's effective in anger management for high school students?

  • What’s the best way to integrate community resources into schools?

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  Intervention Issues:
  

  • About guidance for "counseling as a related service"

  • About the pros and cons of school-wide screening for depression and suicide

  • Addressing the dilemma of proving that prevention programs are effective

  • Addressing the many complex learning, behavior, and emotional problems at schools

  • Concern about a special education misdiagnosis and what to do about it?

  • Conflict with Board - whether to intervene at the school or in special setting

  • Critical Incidents Stress Debriefing Revisited

  • Deciding about retaining a first grade student

  • Dilemma of responding to a suicidal student when the school is involved in a research study on the matter

  • Does early drug abuse education increase curiosity about drugs?

  • End of the year decisions about students who are not at grade level

  • From a parent: Medication was recommended, but what are the alternatives?

  • From school staff: Is mid-year retention of a student the right decision?

  • Helping vs. socialization as it affects a school's focus on student problems

  • High Stakes Accountability in Schools is an Increasing Mental Health Concern

  • How much treatment/intervention should take place within the school v. out in the community in coordination with the school? What evidence is there for making these decisions?

  • Is a memorial service for teen suicides appropriate or does it make suicide attractive?

  • Is the Dropout Problem being Used as a Focus for School Improvement?

  • Looking for student views on what they need to reduce substance abuse and violence

  • "Mental health" can be a scary term for students and families: What's a better term?

  • Needed: Help in Describing comprehensive prevention programs in schools

  • Preparing students returning from residential treatment programs

  • Problem with a small group of disruptive students distracting the class

  • Re-engaging disconnected students

  • Social media: Is it an added distraction and barrier to learning?

  • Strategies for Suicide Prevention

  • Stymied when school says talk it over but parent says fight it out.

  • Thinking About Unifying intervention initiatives

  • What can a gap school (not poor enough, not rich enough) do to get some needed supports?

  • What is the difference between a clinical mental health issue and a school counseling mental health issue?

  • What is the Role of Technology in Addressing Barriers to Learning?

  • What to do with six students who are taking huge amounts of time and resources

  • Which schools sustain change and which crumble after external support fades?

  • Why do school staff find it so difficult to move from a reactive to a prevention role?

  • Why don't classrooms account for emotional problems?

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  Peer Programs:
  

  • How to be a peer tutor without getting over-involved?

  • Info wanted about training 4th-6th graders as peer coaches for coping

  • Need resources for support group focused on drama/gossip as form of bullying

  • Needed: curriculum for a transition support group

  • Planning a peer buddy welcoming program

  • Training teachers and student leaders to impart mental health info

  • Youth Council to Address Mental Health Stigma

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  Policy Information:
  

  • About Having an Impact on Policy to Enhance School Safety

  • Concern about new policy for short term therapy, then referral out

  • Concerned about policies that affect immigrant students

  • Do you have a "draft" of a policy statement for a student/learning support system?

  • Do you have examples of school district policies for student and learning supports?

  • How to piggy-back on recently adopted school reform initiative to strengthen learning supports?

  • Looking for examples of referral policies

  • My state "decreed" that districts must have a social-emotional policy: Any examples?

  • Need district policy language for learning resource support teams

  • Need leads for developing standards for social and emotional development

  • Need policy statement to correct inappropriate use of support staff

  • Next steps in enhancing school safety

  • Policies and procedures around drug testing

  • Policy regarding substance abuse for athletes and afterschool

  • Policy related to planning for students returning to school after a crisis/threat

  • What do states have in place to identify high school students with high risk mental health problems?

  • What are state laws regarding parental consent for students to receive counseling?

  • What is the most pressing issue facing the field of mental health in schools?

  • What level of Schooling Warrants the Highest Policy Priority?

  • When education staff provide MH services should they follow FERPA or HIPPA?

  • Working with Principals to Expand Learning Supports using the new opportunities stemming from the IDEA reauthorization

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  School-Agency Relationships & Bureaucratic Concerns:
  

  • About community agencies working with schools to address mental health problems

  • About reconciling school and agency "rules and regulations"

  • Challenges in braiding resources, programs, and funding

  • Connecting schools, juvenile justice, and the community

  • Connection between economic crisis and increase in mental health crises?

  • Encouraging the school board to address changing demographics and related needs

  • Fingerprinting -- a barrier to providing mental health services in schools

  • Follow up processes to track referrals

  • How a MH community agency begins linking with the district and schools

  • How will Medicaid rule change impact services in schools?

  • Kick Them Out or Help Address Their Problems?

  • Need an example of a school-community interagency agreement

  • Needed: A format to coordinate school and community services

  • Parent indicates having trouble getting the school to provide the intervention specified on Individual Education Plan

  • Parents concern about support for student returning to school from hospital

  • A request from the School of the 21st Century at Yale

  • School changing label from ADHD to Emotionally Disturbed: Implications?

  • Schools and Communities Working Together: Is the Dominant Focus Too Limited?

  • Training materials for county wide comprehensive plan for youth

  • Weekly computer-generated report for parents on a student's behavior

  • What are the barriers to and strategies for school-community collaboration to enhance equity of opportunity

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School Climate:

• About designing customer friendly schools

• About helping teachers improve classroom climate

• About schools planning for traumatic possibilities

• ”Auditing” school climate: Guidelines for leaders

• Bringing an Innovative Approach to Learning Supports to Planning Tables

• Concern about school climate

• Concerns at school board meeting when suicide screening was discussed

• Creating a climate of readiness & commitment for developing a unified and comprehensive system of learning supports

• Does competition in school have a negative effect on social emotional development?

• Enhancing Student Connectedness

• Handling a student who plays one teacher off against another (triangulation)

• How best to refer to the content area of a comprehensive system of learning support?

• How to align need for client record keeping with consultation with teacher?

• How to handle incident of swastika painted on a girls locker?

• How to improve school teamwork and climate?

• How to mobilize student support staff to work in new ways with teachers and students

• How to reduce schoolwide stress during high stakes testing time

• Is there research on the impact of students wearing ID badges?

• Looking for a definition of school violence

• My daughter has special needs and she needs more support at school

• Need resources for reducing anxiety related to possible flu pandemic

• Needed: Resources for school bus drivers who transport students with behavior problems

• Policing in schools experiencing frequent violence

• School climate: Need survey & research on impact on adolescent development

• Self-harm has become "popular" among teens in our school: What to do?

• Student feedback on school climate

• Superintendent says job description for K-8 counselors needs to be rewritten

• Threat assessment policies for schools and higher education

• Using current data as a measure of school climate: Good idea or bad?

• What's realistic when including student voices at schools?

• Working collaboratively on neighborhood efforts to promote safe travel to schools

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School Improvement Planning as Context for Enhancing How School Address MH and Psychosocial Concerns:

• About community mental health professionals determining mental health needs and working with a school/school system

• About health promotion, youth development, and school health

• About new direction for mental health in schools

• About schools seeking speakers on student mental health issues

• About the process of improving schools

• About understanding and addressing the reluctance of some school support staff to adopt evidence based interventions

• Are categorical approaches undermining efforts to create effective systems for schools to address overlapping psychosocial and mental health problems?

• Are Your Concerns Included in School Improvement Planning?

• Carefully getting started in unifying student/learning supports

• Challenges in breaking into established networks of school service providers

• Class size based on the needs of the students

• Do community providers working in schools need to inform school of abuse reports?

• Does holiday giving strengthen social-emotional development?

• Effective strategies to address barriers to learning

• Employing student support staff over the summer

• Formulating a plan for Mental Health in Schools

• How can "learning walks" strengthen working relationships?

• How can we integrate data from various evaluations to advocate for enhancing mental health in schools?

• How can we use cost-benefit data to show value of student supports?

• How do we get students involved in processes for strengthening student/learning supports?

• How to strengthen mental health support in our district?

• Importance of promoting positive mental health in schools

• Including mental health guidelines in a school Wellness Plan

• Is there research on how support for mental health affect achievement?

• Is school mental health aligned with integrated care?

• Looking for "best practice" K-12 comprehensive health curricula

• Looking for fact sheets and videos for teachers related to student mental health

• Moving to a systemic model for mental health in schools

• Need a mental health assessment specific for a school setting

• Need a structured observation form to look at student-teacher interaction

• Need guidelines for creating a high school career academy with a focus on social work

• Need help in planning how to move in more effective new directions in the new year

• Need ideas for how to gather educators together to map and analyze resources

• Need something more for K-1 students with undiagnosed MH problems

• Need strategies for teachers working with students who are selectively mute

• Need to show the link between mental health issues and absenteeism

• Needed: A school-community response to a local substance abuse problem

• Needed: Info on forming a charter school for students with mental health problems

• Needed: Effective topics for a middle school counseling group

• Needed: Tools and Ideas Related to assessing and strengthening the districts focus on mental health

• New Directions: System Building or Services for a Few More Students?

• Plans for social, emotional and behavioral support for pre-school children who are "at risk"

• Pros and cons of placing troubled teens in specialized settings

• Recommendations to school board on age configurations for schools

• Research to show that addressing health in schools works

• Resources and Information on Preventing Tradegies

• School mental health or school behavioral health?

• Schools as Entry Points for Childrens Mental Health Services

• Showing the benefits of mental health in school

• Special Focus : New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Action Plans

• Staff trained for school mental health not necessarily trained to work with autism

• They got a mental health in schools grant! Now what?

• Too many initiatives and frameworks: What's a practitioner to do?

• Using Response to Interventions (RTI) for Identifying Problems

• What are good supports for immigrant/refugee students?

• What does the term "system change" mean and how is it measured?

• What investment is needed to make new directions for learning support successful and sustainable?

• What would you suggest to a foundation asking for recommendations to guide the crafting a grant initiative for districts to enhance mental health?

• What would you suggest to colleagues asking about the teacher’s role in promoting social adjustment and student mental?

• What’s the best approach to designing mental health plan for our district?

• Who monitors medications in schools and what do they need to know?

• Why Do School Improvement Plans Continue to Pay So Little Attention to Student Support?

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School Staff wellness:

• How to support the school staff reeling from accountability pressures?

• I'm in stage three of burnout: help!

• Need a decision tree graphic for student support services for staff development

• Need feedback on the changing role of school social workers

• Needed: Mental health resources for school staff

• Needed: More Focus on the Mental Health of School Staff

• Promoting & supporting teacher/school staf wellness

• Providing teacher support groups

• Responding to Teacher Burnout

• Resources for providing school staff with grief support

• School staff need support

• Staff survey on overwork and stress

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Selecting and Training New Professionals:

• About volunteers to enhance student & learning supports

• Guidelines needed for supervision of school MH staff for licensing

• Interviewing to select school-based mental health staff?

• Involving students in new hires at school

• Looking for input on the creation of a Mental Health Transition Support Coordinator

• Need professional development to meet the mental health challenges of students

• Need strategies for talking to a new Superintendent about the value of establishing a comprehensive system of learning supports?

• Needed: Info about coaching/mentoring new staff

• Preparing and supporting graduate student interns working with schools

• Professional development for learning supports staff

• Starting a school counseling intern program

• Working with a new principal's priorities as an opportunity to strengthen learning supports

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Special Education Concerns:

• Backlash to assessment that may lead to special education referrals

• Does writing therapy goals into the IEP violate confidentiality?

• Focusing an IEP team on student engagement

• Looking for information on quality of mental health care for students

• Mental health in schools: What's available? Depends on what you mean by mental health

• Need ideas for planning support at beginning and end of day for at risk students

• Need school support for a student with Aspergers Syndrome

• Need strategies to reduce disproportionality in special education

• New teacher in a special ed class -- HELP!

• Relationships between bilingual education and learning disabilities?

• Should students diagnosed as having Substance Related Disorders be added to IDEA as a special education population?

• Special education students in private schools? Who provides what services?

• Social support in a regular ed class for a kindergartener with special needs

• Timelines for evaluating and placing a new student who comes in with an IEP

• Too Many in Special Education

• Why are Student Support Staff so Expendable?

• Why the disconnect between special education labels and DSM diagnoses?

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Stakeholder Relationships at School:

• Collaboration between classroom teachers and mental health professionals

• Different Agendas for Mental Health in Schools

• Guidelines needed for preparing a school-community interagency agreement

• How to better connect school & community supports to work together

• How to improve communications between the family and school when students are in treatment outside of school for mental health problems?

• How to improve partnering among researchers and school staff to improve mental health interventions

• Need help in planning a community collaborative meeting agenda

• Regarding referral systems as a start for connecting with schools

• School staff has difficulties with school-based community mental health providers

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