Highlights three successful models (Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and Minnesota) for sustaining school mental health services. Includes financial policies and processes that support their work, strategies for billing Medicaid and other third-party payers, and supplementing these patient-care revenues with public and private grant dollars and in-kind contributions.
Describes much of the empirical basis linking parental involvement with improved educational outcomes, but also offers practical guidance about an array of strategies for increasing such involvement at multiple levels, and describes a nationally recognized framework to guide parental involvement initiatives.
Guides boards involved in policy making, governance, and financing of health, human service, education and related systems to embrace family and youth involvement. Includes a self-assessment, practical information, tips and tools.
Explores characteristics of both healthy and unhealthy dating relationships, provides strategies for assessing whether dating abuse is occurring and how to intervene when required, provides guidance on norms and policies schools may employ, and provides extensive resources to key support staff in addressing dating abuse.
Provides a resource for systematic reviews of research and recommendations about effective strategies for improving public health, including reducing school-violence. Examination of youth violence prevention strategies has included firearm laws, therapeutic foster care, universal school-based violence prevention programs, and transfer of juveniles to adult courts.
Provides information on how states and districts are integrating SEL into their state and district initiatives, and practical examples of what districts and states are currently doing, as well as access to tools that districts have used to help integrate SEL.
Provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences.
Provides a biennial survey on the mental health status of the U.S. population; the providers and settings for mental health services; the types of mental health services and rates of utilization; and costs and sources of funding for mental health services. Biennial reports available since 2002.
Provides an annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students on alcohol and drug use (e.g., inhalants, amphetamines, cigarettes). In 2010 over 46,500 students reported current 30-day, annual, and lifetime use, as well as perceived harmfulness and availability of drugs. Yearly reports are available since 1975.
Summarizes results from three large-scale reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary and middle-school students.
