About the School Mental Health Project (SMHP)

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Mental Health in Schools

the School Mental Health Project

the Center for Mental Health in Schools

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The School Mental Health Project (SMHP) was created in 1986 to pursue theory, research, practice and training related to addressing mental health and psychosocial concerns through school-based interventions. To these ends, SMHP works closely with school districts, state agencies, the New American Schools Urban Learning Center model, and organizations and colleagues across the country. Its accomplishments include:

introduction and operationalization of a model for a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to addressing barriers to student learning and promoting healthy development -- such an approach for enabling learning provides a unifying framework for policy and practice (initial work supported through the U.S. Department of Education)

leadership training, capacity building, and ongoing technical assistance for the mental facets of school-based health centers (initially supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

establishment in 1995 of a national Center for Mental Health in Schools with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Office of Adolescent Health.

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