Other Recent Resources and Documents

Publications:

Two New Books to Help Advance the Field:

• The School Leader’s Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning

• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning

Policy and Program Reports & Briefs:

• Example of a Formal Proposal for Moving in New Directions for Student Support

• Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes (Revised October, 2006)

• Call to Action: Student Support Staff: Moving in New Directions through School Improvement

• Building Collaboration for Mental Health Services in California Schools: What Will be Built?

• Preschool Programs: A Synthesis of Current Policy Issues

• Rethinking Student Support to Enable Students to Learn and Schools to Teach

• Schools as Caring, Learning Communities: A Center Practice Brief

• Should Policy Specify a Formal Role for Schools Related to Mental Health?

• Youngsters' Mental Health and Psychological Problems: What are the Data?

• An Open letter To Mayors: discussion of a mayor’s role in public education

• Center Impact Evaluation Report (April 2006 - with a brief 2007 update)

Training & Presentation Resources
(Click here to see the growing list of these brief resources – some of which our Center has developed; others have direct links to the source material. All Center documents can be downloaded in pdf format.)

For example, see information Resources on:

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

• Frequently Asked Questions About Mental Health in Schools

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

• About Positive Psychology

• Addressing School Adjustment Problems

• Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Toward a Comprehensive Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning

• Resources for Planning Mental Health in Schools

• Some Base Line Data on School Mental Health Services – a quick summary of findings from the just released SAMHSA survey

• Costs of Not Addressing Barriers to Learning

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

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

Guides to Policy & Program Development/practice
(Click here to see the growing list of these resources.)

Examples of practice and guidance notes:

• The Relationship of Response to Intervention and Systems of Learning Supports

• Infrastructure for Learning Supports at District, Regional, and State Offices
• Prescription Drugs Abuse Among Youth
• Life Beyond the "Project" – Fully Integrating the Effort into the School Improvement Agenda
• Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feeling & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools

• What will it cost? – No New Dollars!

• Fully Integrating Student/Learning Supports into the School Improvement Agenda

• Pursuing Opportunities for Moving Proactively from the Margins into the Mainstream of School Improvement

Resource Packets (e.g., Introductory packets & Resource and technical aids):

• Addressing the Needs of Students and Schools in the Aftermath of Katrina: An Update as the School Year Begins (9/11/06)

• Some Funded Research Projects Focusing on the Aftermath Related to Children’s Mental Health and Academic Performance, Their Schools, and Their Families

• Standards for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component
• Standards & Quality Indicators for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component

Quick Finds:

• Quickfind: Cost-Benefit Analyses Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Mental Health in Schools

• Quickfind: Legislation Related to Student Support & Mental Health in Schools

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