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Memorandum of Understanding between School and Community Mental Health Provider

Use this sample Google doc to develop your own MOU with community mental health providers. The purpose of an MOU is to establish roles and responsibilities of the Parties to develop and implement a comprehensive school mental health system (CSMHS) that utilizes the strengths and expertise of school and community-partnered professionals. CSMHS are defined as school-community partnerships that provide a multi-tiered system of mental health supports (MTSS) to support students, families and the school community. “Mental health services” include activities, services and supports that address social, emotional and behavioral well-being of students, including substance use.

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MENTOR

MENTOR works with partner organizations to engage adult volunteers and ensure that all young people have the support needed to thrive and strive. Website includes information about the importance of relationships in schools and out-of-school programs, as well as webinars on such topics such as leveraging relationship-centered interventions to support student wellbeing.

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Listening Guide for Reflections from the Field: Strategic Communications for State System Leaders Navigating Times of Social Conflict

This listening guide was developed to support individual and group reflection as you listen to the audiocast Making the Case: Strategic Communications for State System Leaders Navigating Times of Social Conflict. It is part of a portfolio of resources that aims to provide state system leaders with practical guidance and vivid approaches to strategic communications in our current context of social and political polarization. The call to action in the audiocast is: effective strategic communications is values-driven and bi-directional.
It is fueled by deep listening, patient persistence, and authentic relationships.

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Listening to Understand

The video series “Learn to be a People Person” by author Paul McGee offers practical guidance on improving communication skills, handling negative people, boosting resilience, motivating others, and managing conflict, helping viewers enhance their personal and professional interactions.

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Levels of Racism: a theoretical framwork and a gardner’s tale

Article presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences, and provides allegories to help illustrate the impacts of the different levels of racism.

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Leading with SEL: Resources

Leading with SEL represents key voices in education – parents, educators, students, community and advocacy organizations, businesses, nonprofits – who share a vision for a high-quality education that includes social and emotional learning. On this website you can find resources to be an SEL leader in your own community, and includes a downloadable toolkit for school boards.

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Learning from Building a Healing Centered District

What does it take to build a healing-centered school district? Healing is much more than any one program – it’s the environment, relationships, & orientation we bring to work every day. From reevaluating school district policies to developing trauma training for staff to providing healing supports to administrators, we’ve launched initiatives to become more healing-centered. Join Liz Dozier and Maurice Swinney for a discussion on the learnings from our journey – from successful signs of healing to the obstacles & challenges.

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Learning to Manage Worry

A short video from the point of view of Jacob, a pre-teen who worries a lot and avoids things that might trigger his worry, like watching the news about crime in his neighborhood. It can be used to help youth understand their own anxiety and treatment, including exposure. This video is Part 2 of Jacob’s story. Part 1 can be found here: https://youtu.be/4RSdV9R8wXQ

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