CRJE’s partnerships with districts, schools, organizations, and community members result in empowered educators and leaders who are better equipped to shift classroom dynamics, re-write curriculum, and redesign institutional policies and practices in support of all students. Sign up on their website for free access to resources for your classroom.
Active shooter drills have become a standard practice in nearly all U.S. schools, yet their potential impact on students and educators has received limited attention. School Active Shooter Drills: Mitigating Risks to Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health explores how these drills are conducted and how to reduce potential harm while supporting school safety. Developed by a committee of experts in education, school safety, public health, pediatrics, child and adolescent development, psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, public policy, and criminology, this report provides an in-depth review of current practices and offers guidance. The report provides suggestions for implementing practices that promote prevention and preparedness while supporting well-being, and foster learning environments where students and staff feel safe, capable, and supported.
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. (2026)
This course is geared to school-based mental health professionals, but it can also be helpful for non-clinical staff to learn more about how to support students grappling with thoughts or feelings that place them at risk of suicide. Learn about:
-current data related to youth and suicide
-warning signs, risks and protective factors
-different tools, such as the Ask Suicide Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) and Stanley Brown Safety Plan Intervention
-strategies and practical tips for engaging youth around the topic of suicide and learn practical tips.
Suicide Screening and Risk Assessment for School-Based Mental Health Providers Read More »
Resources on this site’s webpage are designed to promote best practices for supporting people with developmental disabilities and includes best practices for promoting mental health and well-being in the DD community.
Supporting the Mental Health and Well-being of Youth with Developmental Disabilities Read More »
This website helps schools who are on the journey to implementing behavioral health teams and universal mental health screening. CBHM is a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) designed to promote students’ social, emotional, and behavioral wellbeing. MTSS is a three-tier model of service delivery for educational and behavioral services in a school setting. This model is also often called Response to Intervention (RtI). In BPS, the Academic Achievement Framework (AAF) is a version of RtI focused on students’ social and behavioral learning. The Comprehensive Behavioral Health Model (CBHM) is focused on students’ social and behavioral learning. The goal of the CBHM Lighthouse model is to create safe and supportive learning environments in which students may grow and thrive academically, personally, and socially. This includes providing the right amount of services and supports at the right time when a student absolutely needs them.
Behavioral Health Teams and Universal Mental Health Screening Read More »
This blog explores five powerful, actionable strategies that teachers can implement to bring anti-racism to life in their classrooms, transform school culture, and become true advocates for change. In today’s increasingly diverse society, classrooms have become microcosms of the larger world. However, systemic racism and unconscious bias still infiltrate the education system—impacting students’ experiences, access to resources, and long-term success. Schools are not immune to racial inequality; they are often where it is most keenly felt. This makes anti racism in the classroom in schools not just a goal—but a necessity.
How Schools Can Tackle Anti-Racism in the Classroom: 5 Powerful Strategies for Teachers Read More »
The Resiliency Toolkit is a resource designed to promote resiliency in safe and supportive school and caregiving environments. This curated collection offers developmentally appropriate knowledge, tools, and guidance to help students, caregivers, and school personnel navigate both everyday challenges and broader systemic issues. The toolkit brings together best practices, reliable information, and trusted external resources to empower users as they identify needs, explore effective strategies, and access additional support.
As a nonprofit initiative, Attendance Works partners with schools, districts, states, communities and organizations to ensure that chronic absence is recognized as a serious issue that can be addressed through proactive, supportive strategies. Their website offers resources for monitoring, understanding, and addressing chronic absence beginning in the early grades through secondary school. These strategies can be implemented at the school, district, and state level. You can find resources to help develop:
Positive Engagement with families and students
Actionable Data to help you identify students with too many absences
Capacity Building to help build a culture of attendance in your classroom, school or district.
Find toolkits under Capacity Building.
All tools can be downloaded and used without express permission from Attendance Works.
The Children’s Adversity Index measures community-level adversity in order to estimate exposure to potential sources of childhood trauma. The index offers a clearer view of the challenges facing communities across Illinois. Although calculated at the district level to meet the statutory requirements, the index is not about school districts themselves. Rather, the data provides insights into the communities each school district serves. The index provides a useful tool for a wide range of state- and regional-level policymakers, nonprofits, state agencies, and other stakeholders to help them make better informed decisions about resource allocation, policies, and programming, and prioritize communities most in need. (IL Public Act 103-0413)
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