Universal Screening

SHAPE System Assessments

The SHAPE System offers many tools to improve school mental health systems, including assessments and profiles on school mental health, trauma-responsiveness, culture and equity. Additionally, it highlights assessments available to state/territory and pre-school accounts. To access and complete assessments, create an account and register as an individual, school, preschool, district, state/territory, or entity.

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School Mental Health Quality Assessment

The School Mental Health Quality Assessment School Version (SMHQA-S) is designed for school teams to 1) assess the comprehensiveness of their school mental health system and 2) identify priority areas for improvement. The SMHQA-S covers seven domains of comprehensive school mental health, which includes a full continuum of supports for the wellbeing of students, families, and the school community.

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Child Trauma Screener

CHDI joined with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and Yale to develop a brief and free trauma screening measure for children called the Child Trauma Screen (formerly called the Connecticut Trauma Screen). Schools can use this screener to identify children who may be suffering from trauma exposure and need more comprehensive assessment or treatment. Intended for use by intake staff, clinicians, child welfare workers, juvenile probation officers, pediatric providers, school personnel, case managers, care coordinators, or other professionals interested in screening children for trauma.

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Beyond ACEs Resources, Adversity Screening and Impact

This resource provides an overview of the concepts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma, highlights the gaps that remain in our understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on mental and physical health, and describes how these terms (childhood trauma vs. adversity) differ. This resource also offers providers, family advocates, and policymakers recommendations for ways in which ACEs and other childhood trauma-related concepts and resources can be combined to advance care for children and families who have experienced trauma. (2021)

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Best Practices in Mental Health Screening: About Screening

This is the fourth module of the Best Practices in Mental Health Screening training series about screening as a bigger part of a multi-tiered system of support system in schools and key pre-planning considerations. Includes a district example of mental screening implmentation in one school disgrict, and includes information on screening for mental health and well-being in schools.

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