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

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Publications
• Best Practices in the Use of Learning Supports Leadership Teams to Enhance Learning Supports

Guidance Notes
• Analyzing What is Being Spent in Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Balancing Cut-backs at Schools is Essential to Ensuring Equity of Opprotunity
• Mapping & Analyzing Learning Supports
• Schools, Families, and Community Working Together: Building an Effective Collaborative

Information Resources
• Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents

Resource Guide
• Financial Strategies to Aid in Adressing Barriers to Learning

Policy Briefs
• Another Initiative? Where Does it Fit? A Unifying Framework and an Integrated Infrastructure for Schools to Address Barriers to Learning and Promote Healthy Development
• Rethinking District Budgets to Unify and Sustain a Critical Mass of Student and Learning Support at Schools

A Few Other Center Related Resources on Costs & Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Mapping a school's resources to improve their use in preventing and ameliorating problems
• What will it cost? - No New Dollars!
• Cut-Backs Make it Essential to Unify and Rework Student and Learning Supports at Schools and Among Families of Schools
• Funding Stream Integration to Promote Development and Sustainability of a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Costs of Not Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

1. Analyses: Mental Health Services and Psychosocial Programs (including cost-benefit of contrasting approaches)
   • Assessing the Value of Family Support Programs
   • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Interventions with Parents
   • Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analyses
   • The Economic Case for the Prevention of Mental Illness
   • Economic Impact of Communities in Schools
   • Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence
   • Effects of school-based mental health programs on mental health service use by adolescents at school and in the community
   • Ethnography in evaluation: Uncovering hidden costs and benefits in child mental health
   • Public costs of better mental health services for children and adolescents (Data Trends) - Summary
   • Stretching the School Dollar: A Brief for State Policymakers
   • The economics of early childhood policy (2008) M. Kilburn & L. Karoly, Rand
   
   
2. Analyses: Prevention
   1. General
      • Cost-effectiveness of an Intervention to Prevent Depression in At-Risk Teens
      • Cost effectiveness of community-based physical activity interventions
      • Cost Effectiveness of Program for Student in High-Poverty Communtieis
      • Costs of Providing Adequate Program Services to Low-income Students
      
      
   2. Early Childhood Programs
      • Early Childhood Education for All - A Wise Investment
      • The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California
      • Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions
      • Spending smarter: A funding guide for policymakers and advocates to promote social and emotional health and school readiness
      
      
   3. Early Intervention After Problem Onset
      • Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth
      
      
   4. Violence Prevention
      • Fact Sheet Summarizes the Cost of Violence in the United States
      
      
   5. Substance Abuse
      • An Ounce of Prevention, A Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs
   
   
3. Most Cost Effective Ways to Addressing Problems
   1. Juvenile Justice
      • Benefits and costs of prevention and early intervention programs for youth
      • Cost-Benefit Analysis for Juvenile Justice Programs
      • Cost Effective Youth Corrections: Rationalizing the Fiscal Architecture of Juvenile Justice Systems.
      • Diverting Children from a Life of Crime- What Are the Costs and Benefits?
      • Treatment, Services, and Intervention Programs for Child Delinquents
      
      
   2. Substance Abuse Treatment
      • Cost benefits of substance abuse treatment: an overview of results from alcohol and drug use
      
      
   3. Child Abuse
      • Using Benefit-Cost Analysis To Assess Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention Programs
      
      
   4. Achievement Gap/Education Reform
      • Closing the Education Gap: Benefits and Costs
      
      
   5. Mental Health
      • Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood
      • The Cost of Antisocial behaviour in younger children
      • Cost-effectiveness analysis of a home-based social work intervention for children and adolescents who have deliberately poisoned themselves. Results of a randomised controlled trial
      • The Individual-level and Societal-level effects of mental disorders on earnings in the United States: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (2008)
   
   
4. Cost-Effectiveness Methodology and General References
   • Advancing the Power of Economic Evidence to Inform Investments in Children, Youth, and Families
   • The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education
   • Comorbidities and costs of adult patients diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
   • Cost Outcome Methods for Mental Health
   • From Psychotherapy Research to Cost-Outcome Research: What Resources are necessary to Implement Which Therapy Procedures that Change What Processes to Yield Which Outcomes?
   • It's Time for an Ambitious National Investment in America's Children: Investments in Early Childhood Care and Education Would Have Enormous Benefits for Children, Families, Society, and the Economy
   • Measuring Time Costs in Interventions Designed to Reduce Behavior Problems Among Children and Youth
   • A Primer for Making Cost Adjustments in Education
   • Realizing Youth Justice: Advancing Education and Employment through Public Policy and Investment
   • Return on Investment in Education
   • Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education
   • View From the Classroom: The Reality of Underfunding in New York’s Schools

Related Agencies and Websites

• Benefit-Cost Analysis Center
• Center for the Economics of Human Development

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