Center for MH in Schools & Student/Learning Supports  
 

What's New From the Center?

2025 Over the previous years, our analyses of prevailing school improvement legislation, planning, and literature have delineated fundamental deficiencies, especially with respect to enhancing equity of opportunity and closing the achievement gap.

As schools continue to recover from the pandemic, it is essential to move forward in making fundamental changes.

With this in mind, a major facet of our work in 2025 continues to focus school improvement policy and planning on:

For details see the resources listed below.

Moving in New Directions

See  >National Initiative for the Transformation of Student and Learning Supports

 >Student/Learning Supports: A Brief Guide for Moving in New Directions

 >Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Starting the Process

Also see

All New Center Resources (Reports, Briefs, Information Resources. Packets, Practice Notes) are Reported Each Month in the Center UPDATEs section of ENEWS and Entered into the Resource Catalogue.


  ejournal Quarterly e-Journal
Addressing Barriers to Learning.

Summer, 2024

>Schools Can and Must Play an Embedded Role
in Addressing Mental Health Concerns


>Everyone's Talking About Students' Mental Health:
Schools Need to Avoid Five Potential Pitfalls

Please share widely.

Access to previous issues of this resource are online at https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/newsarchive.html

   

Practitioners Exchange

Community of Practice --
"Weekly Practitioner"

https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/practitioner.htm

12/18/24
>Are schools protecting students' mental health?
>What do those in the field say about what student/learning supports are most helpful?
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

12/11/24
>SEL, Winter holidays, and food & toy drives
>About socioeconomic factors and achievement gaps
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

12/4/24
>Parent wants to know what to do about daughter's disengagement with school and peers
> Let's face it: MTSS is not a unified, comprehensive, and equitable student support system
>Links to a few other relevant shared resources

Examples of previous discussions

>Preventing truancy
>About Addressing Poverty: What’s a School's Role?
>Demonstrating that mental health in schools is worth the investment
>Promoting positive mental health in schools
>Colleague asks for "real" examples of schools addressing prevention
>About Engaging students in active learning
>Are school boards important??
>Impact of homework on students and families
>About new directions for addressing youth mental health
>Will Tier 3 interventions reduce school shootings?
>About Relationship Building at School
>What do you think about online/telephone counseling for students?
>Rethinking universal mindfulness programs in schools
>Should schools use student well-being surveys to guide policy/practice?
>How should schools use artificial intelligence and also cope with misuses?
>Looking for a list of behavioral/mental health evidence based interventions for use in schools
>Does MTSS contribute to the marginalization of disabled students?
>Student voice and mental health in schools
>Prevention, promotion, & strength-based approaches to youth mental health
>What's involved in recruiting and retaining school professionals?
>>Enhancing Ongoing Alliances Between Teachers and Student/Learning Support Staff
>Who's Really Interested in TRANSFORMING Student and Learning Supports?
>Schools need to consider "fit" in adopting interventions
>A related concern about fitting evidence-based treatment to the person, not the diagnosis
>What's being done about youth who have disconnected from school?
>About "at-risk" youth
>Showing and Receiving Kindness: An Example of a Natural Opportunity for SEL
>Can there be too much talk about mental health?
>Artificial Intelligence in the classroom
>Can unnecessary student mental health referrals be reduced?
>Increasing Concern About the Complexity of Attendance Problems
>Absenteeism: Yet Another Reason for Transforming Student/Learning Supports
>Social-Emotional Curriculum Isn’t a Good Fit for Every Student
>Paraprofessionals and student/learning supports
>Shifting discipline from consequences to prevention
>The impact of students' sense of belonging on their learning
>What will best meet the needs of all students and staff:
>Adding Some More Mental Health Services at Schools
OR
Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable Student and Learning Supports System?
>Discipline's impact on student mental health
>About concerns that arise in addressing school/community violence
>Some indicators of youth risk behavior show encouraging trends
>About mental health in schools as a platform for transforming student/learning supports
>Students Thrive with Positive Experiences (and so do school staff)
>What problems arise when additional MH professionals are brought into a school?
>Focusing on Mental Health in Schools from a Public Health Perspective
>Countering the Impending Tidal Wave of Unnecessary Referrals for Special Assistance and Special Education
>About Developing Kindness and Compassion & Promoting MH
>Time for Straight Talk about Mental Health Services and MH in Schools
>Evolving Community Schools and Transforming Student/Learning Supports
>How are various sources of funding being braided to improve/transform student/learning supports?
>Can youth empowerment enhance violence prevention?
>Student anxiety, aggressive behavior, school climate, & other related concerns
>How should schools improve discipline practices?
   

ENEWS ENEWS*

>Forging Strong Working Relationships with
Students and Families

Also
  • Continuing Education Through Quick links to online resources
  • A few Stories Excerpted from Various News Sources
  • Comments and sharing from the field

 


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