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We provide assessment, intervention, and workforce development resources for school mental health practitioners.
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Screening
Use these tools to guide mental health screening practices in your school.
Best Practices in Universal Screening for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes: An Implementation Guide
Universal social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) screening is increasingly being recognized as a foundational component of a comprehensive, multi-tiered system of school-based supports. The purpose of this guide is to summarize the current state of research and practice related to universal SEB screening and provide practical and defensible recommendations.
Consultation Resource Guide for School Leadership Teams
The Consultation Resource Guide is intended to provide a step-by-step outline of all activities necessary for building a screening-to-intervening infrastructure within school settings. This guide gives school-based teams a process to:
- Implement and monitor evidence-based interventions based on screening data.
- Develop a team for screening.
- Align all resources.
- Conduct a universal screening.
Screening Readiness Checklist
The Screening Readiness Checklist is a resource that allows school-based teams to facilitate, monitor and problem-solve the screening-to-intervention implementation process. School teams can review the content throughout this readiness checklist to inform specific processes needed to implement universal screening and subsequent intervention implementation.
Problem Analysis
These tools help schools find mental health interventions that will best meet their student needs.
Intervention Selection Profile (ISP)
A suite of brief problem identification tools for students in need of Tier 2 support.
Mental-health Assessment and Support Cost Out Tool (MASCOT)
The Mental-Health Assessment and Support Cost Out Tool (MASCOT) compares the cost of universal screening procedures and subsequent supportive services to the costs of typical school discipline (i.e., Office Discipline Referrals, Disciplinary Meeting). The MASCOT utilizes realistic salaries, intervention costs and disciplinary actions to simulate both the humanistic and financial cost of supporting students’ behavioral success.
Intervention
We develop resources to help schools support the mental health needs of their students. Use our resources to implement the Resilience Education Program (REP), Check-in/Check-Out (CICO), or Teachers and Parents as Partners (TAPP) in your school.
Resilience Education Program
The Resilience Education Program (REP) is a targeted Tier 2 intervention for students at risk for internalizing concerns, such as depression and anxiety.
Assessment Measures to Support Student Identification and Progress Monitoring for REP
This resource includes a list of measures that can be used to either (a) identify students who would benefit from REP (e.g., universal screeners) or (b) evaluate student response to REP (e.g., progress monitors).
Check-in/Check-out Fidelity Checklists
A series of checklists to assess whether key steps in the Check-in/Check-out (CICO) intervention are completed well. When school staff consistently complete the key steps, they increase the likelihood that CICO will produce positive outcomes. The CICO Checklists can be used as part of the Resiliency Education Program or independently.
Internalizing Behavior Observation Protocol (IBOP)
The Internalizing Behavior Observation Protocol can be used to monitor student response to the Resilience Education Program (REP) over time.
REP Cognitive-Behavioral Instruction Curriculum: Grades 4-5
Through five lessons in a small-group setting, students learn skills to manage their strong emotions, address negative thoughts that lead to these emotions, and problem-solve within challenging social or academic situations. This curriculum includes content that is appropriate for late elementary school students (grades 4-5).
REP Cognitive-Behavioral Instruction Curriculum: Grades 6-8
Through five lessons in a small-group setting, students learn skills to manage their strong emotions, address negative thoughts that lead to these emotions, and problem solve within challenging social or academic situations. This curriculum includes content that is appropriate for middle school students (grades 6-8).
REP Cognitive-Behavioral Instruction Workbook: Grades 4-5
This student workbook includes all of the materials a student will need to progress through REP, including homework sheets, lesson worksheets, and lesson overviews. This workbook is specific to the late elementary school version of the curriculum (grades 4-5).
REP Cognitive-Behavioral Instruction Workbook: Grades 6-8
This student workbook includes all of the materials a student will need to progress through REP, including homework sheets, lesson worksheets, and lesson overviews. This workbook is specific to the middle school version of the curriculum (grades 6-8).
REP Resilient Families Handbook
REP Resilient Families Handbook En Español
This Resilient Families process is designed to engage parents and caregivers as co-equal partners in supporting their child. REP implementers work to support parents and caregivers in developing tools that promote their child’s social-emotional skills. Finally, the handbook helps to establish a context for families and educators to collaborate as they coordinate support for their child.
Systems-Level Supports to Consider when Implementing the Resilience Education Program (REP)
Educators should use this checklist in evaluating the appropriateness of REP for their school, while also considering readiness for implementation.
Teachers and Parents as Partners
We partner with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on the “Teachers and Parents as Partners” intervention. Their site provides webinars and training videos.
Workforce Development
Resources to recruit, develop, and retain a strong school mental health workforce.
Building and Sustaining Professional Pipelines: Practice Brief and Discussion Guide – School Mental Health Collaborative
This practice brief provides effective strategies to recruit school mental health professionals into graduate training programs, as well as ways school leaders can recruit and hire high-quality school mental health professionals into K–12 schools.
Retaining School Mental Health Professionals: A Framework for Best Practice Implementation
The purpose of this practice brief is to describe a framework school districts and school leaders can use to retain School Mental Health Professionals (SMHPs) with two dimensions. One, best practice components that address challenges SMHPs are experiencing that are leading them to leave their positions. Two, an implementation plan.
School Mental Health Professionals’ Roles within MTSS: Practice Brief and Discussion Guide
This practice review for school mental health providers outlines a new MTSS approach specifically designed to enhance student mental health.
