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Mental Health Literacy Toolkit for Youth

Download a MHL toolkit for youth to help young people who want to make a
difference in mental health. The toolkit was created with real youth voices and lived experiences. Participants gain knowledge, tools, and encouragement to be advocates for mental wellness in their lives and communities, and learn the core framework of mental health literacy. MHLC also offers live workshops.

Mental Health Literacy (MHL) is a critical piece of education and a proactive solution to the current mental health crisis. MHL includes four core components: understanding how to foster & maintain positive mental health; understanding common mental health disorders, signs & symptoms, and treatments; understanding how to seek help effectively; and understanding stigma and strategies for stigma reduction.

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30 Days of Mental Health in the School Year

Understanding the A-B-Cs of mental health and illness is the first step to improving outcomes. Educators, parents, and caregivers can pledge to engage in 30 days of child and youth mental health during the academic year. Schools can be the place where we destigmatize mental illness and teach children and youth how to foster mental health. The goals of 30 Days of Mental Health campaign are:

To keep students’ mental health at the forefront of our minds throughout the academic year.

To remind educators, parents, and caregivers that recovery from trauma takes time.

​To ensure that educators, parents, and caregivers have the knowledge and tools to promote positive mental health.

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School Mental Health Quality Guides

These guides from the National Center for School Mental Health provide information to help school mental health systems advance the quality of their services and supports. There is a unique guide for each of the seven domains of the SMHQ Assessment: teaming, need assessment and resource mapping, screening, teaming, Tier 1, Tiers 2 and 3 (services and supports), funding and sustainability, and impact. Each guide contains background information on the domain, best practices, possible action steps, examples from the field, and resources.

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Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems: Guidance from the Field

Comprehensive school mental health systems provide an array of supports and services that promote positive school climate, social and emotional learning, and mental health and well-being, while reducing the prevalence and severity of mental illness. This 2019 guide from National Center for School Mental Health offers collective insight and guidance to local communities and states to advance comprehensive school mental health systems. Contents were informed by examination of national best practices and performance standards, local and state exemplars, and recommendations provided by federal/national, state, local and private leaders.

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Teaming Guide for School Mental Health

A school mental health team is a group of school and community stakeholders at the school-or district-level that meets regularly, uses data-based decision making, and relies on action planning to support student mental health. This guide contains background information on teaming, best practices, possible action steps, examples from the field, and resources.

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The purpose of this document is to lay out what a possible timeline could look like for the Universal Screening process and who might need to be involved with each step. Considerations are made for professional development and communication necessary for the transparent delivery of a Universal Screener that stakeholders support and the results in more youth being supported by appropriate interventions.

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